September Industry

People are going nuts over this poster (as well as RAC brand guides!!), and rightly so.
I like it too and it’s good to see design having such an effect over people’s wallets, after all ‘It’s all about the benjamins baby’ as one purveyor of hip hop lyrics once spat…

or is it?

70-85 quid for a poster! I have a fair idea of how much K2 would cost for a poster on mirri (as they’re printing a poster of mine on a similarly expensive stock now) and he’ll be raking it in! It is a nice poster but I personally wouldn’t pay over 50quid for any poster unless its a Hofmann or Müller-Brockman or such like obviously!

People are buying it, so really the design has earnt it…

lol.

There are many ‘mugs’ as you call them out there, and there always will be.
But it still stands that the design has earned it’s money, even if it’s a mug’s money.

Quality design is a valuable commodity – if you are interested in design blogs I would have thought you’d agree. I’d grace my walls with this, it’s a stunning design.

Yes I’m interested in design blogs. But I’m not going to over value design! It ain’t gonna save the world Judy!

Judy, yes quality design is a valuable commodity, but that value isn’t purely monetary … I have to agree with u_helv and alex – again we are back to the money issue – regardless of the design, £75 for me is just too much for a poster. Again I go back to the idea of perspective… it’s just a poster… I love design, especially this kind of design as much as anybody on here but if we start taking ourselves as designers to seriously, putting too high a value on these things we seek to remove ourselves from the very culture we are trying to persuade could benefit from. I feel that design should be inclusive not exclusive.

jokes aside maybe you could detail how you came to that price peter?

i wouldn’t make any assumptions about your motives, it’s just a fact that i find this and many similar graphic posters/ltd editions to be overpriced. now that’s not negativity to your design which i think is beautiful. if you feel £85 is justified then that is your opinion and its just poster. but there is a whole bunch of potential buyers who are put of but that figure.

i appreciate the constructive criticism – i really do. what i find particularly sad is how quick certain people are to de-value design art – why? is graphic design output really only worth say £50? – or better yet, how about a cap of £30? do we really think that little of ourselves and the value of what we create?

my motivation in producing Love Will… was purely based on the love of the song and Joy Division. my ability to continue to produce pieces like this and A_B_ (which took 1 full month to create) is dependent on recouping the cost of my time – it is unsustainable to work at a loss.

all my love, p.

i just wish i could afford to buy one.

J and Peter made some great points, but at the end of the day it all comes down to your disposable income regardless of how beautiful the piece of design is. Im sure there are many out there that would love to buy this poster but can’t due to financial reasons. It’s the world we live in Im afraid.