Rob Giampietro, Tense Relations, Dot Dot Dot Issue 12, pp. 62–66.

Rob Giampietro, designer and writer, partner in Project Projects, writes in Dot Dot Dot magazine about what designers do. Here he’s commenting on a book called Dutch Resource: Collaborative Exercises in Graphic Design, and quotes the back cover copy from that book:

“Today’s graphic designer, a specialist and jack-of-all-trades in on”—a hybrid of hybrids!—”who is not only meant to be a good designer but often works as a writer, researcher, editor, curator, critic and photographer as well.” (66)

“The best collaborations assume a diversity of their participants’ gifts” (66)