Terry,
> Hence my suggestion that it is not necessary to call on ALL designers to fix
> any problems with formatting standards of design texts.
It is, however, reasonable to call on all academics to display a reasonable level of reading comprehension. Nobody here has requested that you become a graphic designer. What started this was the suggestion that there is considerable irony in design organizations insisting on objectively bad design standards.
> Many (and I suggest most) of the people who are
> professionally occupied in this larger set of designers do something else,
I suggest that you are right. It is inane at best to speak broadly about designers. As Ken nicely put it regarding "design thinking," the various uses of "designer" and "design" are homonyms.
I would submit, however, that when most people hear the word "designer" or "design" or "design thinking," they do not think about the specific definition that you characterize as "most" designers.
What is it that you think all (or at least "most") designer do?
Gunnar
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