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Ian Moss asked me a question I just had to answer: what's your favourite kind of design?

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1. I was asked by Ian Moss
2. Quite a long time ago now
3. Sorry Ian
4. What my favourite piece of design is
5. And what areas, such as communication, graphic design, architecture
6. This is new for this format of AADA
7. Because I’ve never answered somebody’s question before
8. But Ian is a good friend, and it’s a good question
9. So I’m going to do my best to answer it
10. Let’s give it a try.
11. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
12. MUSIC
13. There’s two things I remember distinctly when I first started realising I was into design
14. One of them I only realised retrospectively
15. And the second one was my first love of graphic design
16. The retrospective one is something I’ve spoken about way back in episode 81, the design disease
17. I mentioned the WWF logo, the World Wrestling Federation
18. At the time in my teens, I was mega into wrestling
19. And I used to love reproducing their logo with a marker pen over and over
20. It was the only logo I could draw, so I went nuts with it
21. I got pretty good at drawing it too actually
22. Looking back at this now, I wonder if the WWF—now WWE made their logo like that on purpose
23. The two things I’ve long since had in my head about logo design
24. Is it should be simple enough so anybody can draw it
25. And it should be able to fit on a postage stamp
26. The WWF logo did both of those things
27. And it was accessible
28. It wasn’t a great logo from any technical standpoint
29. But it fit the bill, it fit the kind of audience they wanted to attract
30. And it meant young teenagers like me could draw it easily and spread their message
31. Logos have long since been a favourite part of design for me
32. They are the perfect distilled version of graphic design
33. It takes so much skill to create something that looks so simple
34. And it’s why I’m constantly fascinated with logos
35. It’s my favourite part of design to produce, and admire
36. And as for my favourite logos
37. I’m probably a bit predictable here
38. I love Coca Cola’s logo, not just because it looks nice, but because they’ve had the balls to stick with it
39. And whilst I’m not a big fan of Apple as a business or company anymore, their logo through the ages and today is just perfect
40. I...