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Originally Posted by kw5150
Many of the architects I know are amazing graphic designers as well.
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And every single one I've worked with has been awful when you compare them to professional graphic design standards. The only ones who have been worse were photographers (although many of them were at least aware of it!).
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Originally Posted by kw5150
Marc Boutin Arch. Collaborative did all of their graphics in house for the poppy plaza; I know that for a fact.
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That does not mean that an architect himself did the actual graphic design. They might have a designer on staff for these types of things. More often than not, the guy who designs the building does not work on the signage, wayfinding, and graphic design elements.
Oh, and I'm artistic too and like to dabble in other fields....but it doesn't mean I could design as nice of a building as an architect, shoot as nice of a photo as a photographer, or design a car as nice as an industrial designer. At the end of the day when you compare dabble work like this to someone actually working in that profession, it almost never stacks up.