Comments on: Beyond Design – Eric Minella

By: Kay'Cee

Kay'Cee — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:27:55 +0000

By the way I love your art Cire!

By: Kay'Cee

Kay'Cee — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:27:09 +0000

I personally have known Eric for over 20yrs He is such an inspiration to me. He once made me a leather bound book with all my favorite things in it. He is very creative. Trust me when I say if you were in front of this man talking to him you would be in AWE! Shame on you nay sayers for being so big headed and negative.

By: historical research services

historical research services — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:33:37 +0000

Money is definitely important, as most companies are for-profit enterprises, but it will often take a long time to come and if you don?t truly enjoy your work then you won?t be able to convince yourself to keep going. You can only do something that you don?t really love for so long before you give up.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:57:23 +0000

Eric – the Tapwater icon says it all – that’s gold. No one on this e-mail trail could have come up with something so brilliant…
Marc

By: Vegas Rocks

Vegas Rocks — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:40:00 +0000

I like Metal Mike’s perspective. I understand that many “inspried” designers look for the drama, or the ‘hook’ of the art, but often simplicity sells just as much as a gimmick.

Sure, I’ll give ya that Eric doesn’t make me want to go to Tienda De Reyes, but I do wanna hang with the Green Fairy and a bag of Kale Chips.

By the sounds of it, Eric’s music is his forte’. His website http://www.whisperwood.com is pretty cool and extremely original. Nice work Eric.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:00:59 +0000

Hrmmm, I think to help people understand the focus of this series, the articles should narrow in on the “other passion” of the designer. The article starts to do that, and then barrages the reader with the designers design samples, rather than media that has to do with the designer’s “other passion” (ie music clips, album artwork, video performances).

With this article laid out like it is, it makes it look like this designer’s designs are suppose to be “beyond design,” rather than, hey check out this person’s talents beyond/in addition to their design work.

Just my 2 cents.

By: Hmmm...

Hmmm... — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:42:09 +0000

Ya, I would have to agree with the original poster. For a “professional” of 12 years, his work is very limited to a handful of clients and seems like a majority of his elements are from stock photography/clip art websites.

Not very inspirational, nothing new.

Just my opinion.

By: Karen Daniels

Karen Daniels — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:49:36 +0000

Well, at least we stirred the pot a bit. The focus of beyond design is to feature the designers work outside of design and Eric’s music credits make him a very interesting creative persona. As with anything artistic, individual tastes vary a great deal so one person’s brilliant is another one’s ugh. We appreciate the input, Thanks, everyone.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:27:03 +0000

I think one of the things that’s interesting about Eric is the combo of musical talent along with his design work. Many of us have dual passions and it’s interesting to learn about how he balances those. You don’t have to give up on one to feed the other and that’s pretty inspiring to me!

By: Metal Mike

Metal Mike — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:32:20 +0000

I actually liked the artwork quite a bit. It fits what the event/product is. My wife is a graphic designer and she learned a while ago another key ingredient to design – consider your audience. I’m not looking for an ad that’s “inspiring” enough to mount on my living room wall, but rather something that gets my attention and sells me on an event or product. I’d say you did well Eric. Don’t let the naysayers get you down. Too much negative energy in the world. As you said, “follow your passion” and you are. You rock!