Graphics designer maybe, creative, probably
But artist?
Negro please
Plot twist: Graph was mad with AI
Project Manager was #1 but they told the artist it didn’t fit the scope.
They were probably asked an open ended question. Artist is likely the most common answer given due to the simple fact that more people can think of that job compared to PR manager when asked
A quick image search returned this
https://mothership.sg/2020/06/milieu-survey-sunday-times-essential/
So many commenters are missing crucial context to this infographic.
This was released during peak covid and I mean PEAK as in June 2020, global lockdowns, high mortality rates, shortages of essentials. In case anyone has a short memory, the world as we knew it practically ground to a halt.
Not to take away anything from artists but essential in this context meant essential to the basic human needs. Health, Nutrition, Sanitation.
The world you knew ground to a halt.
I was working in healthcare at the time. I was doing 60 hours a week, home, work, home, work, home, work. Nonstop.
The world did not stop because you couldn’t go into an office to sit and work.
the 23% of people who didn’t vote for garbage collector… Are they hoarders?
They’re the people who just haul their own trash to the dump.
My sister is a graphic designer and makes good money.
I know they meant painter but graphic designer is probably one of the most important jobs if we’re talking about business. A company without some sort of graphic is dead in the water.
I dig it!
Yeah? Well… Who designed their font?
I think that font might be Proxima Nova, which was designed by Mark Simonson. When looking up that name, I learned that this design was inspired by “the roundness of geometric sans serifs like Futura” and “the proportions of modern grotesques like Helvetica.”, so I suppose we should also tip our hats to Paul Renner (Futura), and Max Midinger and Eduard Hoffman (Helvetica)
(N.b. I am only moderately knowledgeable in typeface history. Any other nerds who enjoy learning may appreciate this random video
That’s about right.
Artist? I think the job was passed off to the first person passing the bosses desk.
Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it’s definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let’s go with that
Its right about telemarketing
I want to beat the shit out of everyone who thinks artist is a ‘non-essential’ job. And then make a drawing decipting it.
Always remember, music is also art. Now imagine a world where theres no music. You can’t listen to anything while driving, riding the bus, going shopping etc.
I don’t listen to anything in any of those scenarios.
Many people are not listening music 24/7.
Music is nice, I don’t say it’s not. But you could 100% live without it.
Yeah it would suck but it is pretty unnecessary in terms of survival and productivity.
Social media manager and telemarketers are far more useless though. So I disagree with the list
Hard disagree. Humanity flourished when we had the free time to think, play, and create instead of just hunting and gathering all the time. Language, collaboration, imagination all grew thanks to art.
Culture doesn’t exist without art.
The rest of that column is basically “mosquitos”, blegh. Maybe we can get some birds to eat them.
I knew someone would and I get it, but you’re thinking emotionally, not rationally.
You’re only thinking about your survival and productivity, and even then only in the short term. A society deprived of everything beyond survival and productivity is going to implode.
Nope.
Feel free to be wrong I guess 🤷🏽♂️
You can listen to things while driving, but it is either NPR, talk radio, or church sermons.
I don’t even… this thought is so vile. It’s bumming me out and I already agreed with you, I didn’t need this analogy. Fuck that’s depressing… FUCK!
Not NPR, that’s writing and journalism, which id argue is definitely an art.
Have fun with 500 versions of Alex Jones though.
No, there’s even art in Alex Jones. Remember bad art exists and is still art.
I think I’d kill myself if I had to listen to NPR’s Up First without the jingle. I think that jingle keeps me sane.
It’s not that I disagree with the principle, but on the mentioned occastions, I will ~99% of the time listen to podcasts or audio books instead of music.
You might be shocked to learn that books is art, too.
The code I write might be considered abstract art by some, but I’m a developer, not an artist. Much like how someone who writes books get catagorized as an author even though books can be considered art.
I mean everything could be considered art if you look at it from the right angle :o
Sure, but novels, paintings, and songs are traditional arts, they are art first and foremost.
If you think artists are non-essential, try teaching a technophobic boomer to renew their driver license through a terminal command.
A good UI has nothing to do with art. In fact, art leads to terrible UI.
UX designers are artists. UX design is art.
Sometimes terrible art, but still art.
This is too philosophical to be practical imo.
If the argument is that everything that requires creativity (read: requires independent thoughts and conclusions) is art, then the definition starts to become useless.
UX design is creative, but it isn’t always art, following rigid accessibility guidelines set by governing bodies isn’t art, even if you sometimes need to be creative in your implementation.
A good UX design will guide the user’s eyes to certain places, just like a good painting.
I think we can both agree that graphic design is art, and UX design, in my opinion, is an extension of graphic design, with the requirement that the user be able to navigate and interact with the graphics, not just receive and understand the information it contains.
I don’t think that terminal interface design, even though it requires creativity, is art in this sense, because the creative expression is solely meant to be functional. In a good UX design, the creative expression is not only meant to be functional, but also to evoke certain feelings and convey certain attitudes. Think about how the McDonalds self order kiosks need to both be functional, in that you can find what you want and place your order, but also evoke feelings about each item and convey an attitude of friendliness to the user. This is a different type of UX design than, say, a bank, which needs to convey an attitude of professionalism and evoke a feeling of safety.
I am a software engineer, and when I used to design a user interface, it was always pretty terrible for your average user. For an example, look at PNotify, which I designed over a decade ago. I am learning art (I’ve been painting for a few years), and through that, I think I’ve gotten better at UX design. You can see the progression in SMUI, which I made several years later, around 2018, then in Port87, which I made recently. I’m still not great at UX design, but learning more about the visual arts has definitely helped me improve.
But what about telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants?
Those go on the other ship
Is this the list from Hitchhiker’s Guide?
yes
