The Manifatso:
In 1995, Team Fat signed this Declaration of Principles. It seemed to me a good way to get my first blog off on the right foot.
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Multimedia is a frontier for music. Along with the Internet, Multimedia will become important in a way that is historically significant, for tremendous numbers of opportunities for, and different and new ways of listening to, creating, and interacting with music.
As the settlers come to this frontier, it is incumbent upon us pioneers to make sure that this becomes a place that is free and open for musical expression. It is Team Fat's intention that the music in this place be expressive, touching, and made for the sake of the human spirit, not repetitive, imitative, mechanical by convenience, nor needlessly enslaved by styles imposed by fashion or limited machinery.
The musical precedents we set, and the tools we use and help create, the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, and the things we say should all promote this vision.
Signed by Team Fat,
8-20-95
Y'all can swear yourselves to uphold the Manifatso, too, if it fits your way of thinking.
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But, Don Roberto, of course much of graphic design, for a working artist, is about commercialism. Likewise, much of being a trail boss in the Old West was about getting the cattle to the market to sell them.
When they make the movie about your cattle drive, Don Roberto, the question won't be "how many cattle did he sell, and for how much?" It will be, "who will they cast in the role of Don Roberto--John Wayne or Donald Pleasance?"
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If the Manifatso can be applied to the graphics arts, then sign me up! I can't quite grasp how it might apply -- so much of graphic design, for a working artist, is about commercialism and therefore what is currently fashionable as well as form following function, i.e., imparting information the ultimate goal of which is to sell something. How does one balance the great economic forces with a life of Fatsoism? Can one pursue and achieve a career creating the new and unique in a world of philistine clients, or must one find a patron or patrons of pure spirit and open checkbook?