(From 2005) This was a little bunch of interviews that I decided to begin a while ago. I interviewed a few people and never really finished. The premise behind this series was that a lot of people in the design industry seem to think that porn is okay to put into work because it is simply to them a nude artwork.
I wanted to know what other people thought… especially people who stand out in the design area online. Women were hard to come by to interview, there seems to be a lack of female profile which hopefully we can rectify some time in the future.
These are the responses I have gotten, some finished some unfinished. Some don’t even exist because I didn’t get around to it.
I’m always interested in what people have to say about this and the idea was to have a large discussion around the matter. They may be old but the detail is still relevant. So respond how you will.
This interview is incomplete due to the slackness of the interviewer.
How do you think the design landscape been changed as a result of the explosion of Porn online?
I think that Porn has been around long before there was design online. Since design has come into the design field it wasn’t “safe” to view sites as much at work because it is hard to explain to coworkers you were just surfing “design” links.
What is your opinion of the way that Porn has been promoted as just another part of the artistic world? In your eyes is this a legitimate claim?
I think using nudity for nudity’s sake is a mindless process. I don’t see any legitimacy in combining nudity or sex with design, there are far more sites dealing with that subject matter that one can surf. Design isn’t adding anything to the Porn industry besides legitimizing Porn. Personally I disregard most design with nudity in it because it makes design feel cheap, and design in this age needs no further reason to feel cheap. Design needs to elevate itself beyond the mundane and the world, to communicate at a higher level, not lower.
You can find Mike over at We Work For Them.