{"id":484336,"date":"2022-08-14T02:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T02:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T23:30:16","slug":"is-kanye-west-a-good-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Is Kanye West a Good Designer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2a3a02a9c49\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/#%E2%80%9CIs_Kanye_West_a_Good_Designer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Is Kanye West a Good Designer?&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/#Is_Kanye_West_REALLY_any_different_from_other_designers\" >Is Kanye West REALLY any different from other designers?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/#To_understand_Kanye_you_first_need_to_understand_the_cultural_crossroads_we_are_at\" >To understand Kanye, you first need to understand the cultural crossroads we are at.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/#A_Design_Analysis_of_the_Yeezy_sliders\" >A Design Analysis of the Yeezy sliders.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/#Kanyes_biggest_crime_was_making_design_%E2%80%98unboring_again\" >Kanye\u2019s biggest crime was making design \u2018unboring\u2019 again<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/#Kanyes_Creative_Process\" >Kanye\u2019s Creative Process<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/#So%E2%80%A6_IS_Kanye_a_good_designer\" >So\u2026 IS Kanye a good designer?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CIs_Kanye_West_a_Good_Designer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Is Kanye West a Good Designer?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" style=\"max-width:1050px;\">\n<input class=\"jpibfi\" type=\"hidden\"><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-394885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_1.jpg\" alt=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_1.jpg\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone wp-image-394885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_1.jpg\" alt=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_1.jpg\"><br \/>\nOn any random given day, if you walked up to me and asked me if Kanye West was a good designer, my answer would be a resounding NO. By my own personal standards, Kanye West\u2019s designs are odd to look at, make me physically uncomfortable, and have me wondering if the prolific artist even knows anything about aesthetics\u2026 then it occurred to me. In a world where attention is currency, the fact that I\u2019m sitting in front of my computer on a Monday night writing about Kanye\u2019s designs obviously means he was really good at garnering attention and being the topic of conversation. To a brand, that\u2019s as \u2018good design\u2019 as it can ever get.<\/p>\n<p>As designers, we\u2019re instilled with a certain set of values that make us prioritize our consumers. We solve problems for them, and a product that makes a consumer\u2019s life measurably better is \u2018good design\u2019. However, what we\u2019re never taught is that our client \u2013 the person who pays us the money to design stuff for them \u2013 is a consumer too. <strong>If your end-product makes life better for end-users but bankrupts the company selling the product, is it really a good design?<\/strong> Good design has multiple stakeholders \u2013 you\/your team, your client, your planet, and your user. Everyone should stand to benefit from your work. That core belief is what made me question Kanye\u2019s work much more objectively \u2013 just because I absolutely hate the Yeezy shoes and slippers doesn\u2019t take away from the fact that they\u2019re WILDLY successful products\u2026 which means customers love them, the brands benefit from them, and so does Kanye. Much to my dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointment, that\u2019s a Win Win Win. However, we as designers aren\u2019t wrong for looking for logic in Kanye\u2019s work, but more on that later. First, let\u2019s just try and ask ourselves a pretty crucial question.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_Kanye_West_REALLY_any_different_from_other_designers\"><\/span>Is Kanye West REALLY any different from other designers?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Try to think of as many famous contemporary designers as you can and most of them should have one thing in common \u2013 eccentricity. The kind of eccentricity that also ends up reflecting in some of their best work. Gehry\u2019s design of the Bilbao Guggenheim is visual madness, as is Gaudi\u2019s Sagrada Familia. Karim Rashid has made some questionably odd-looking (yet iconic) products in his career, as has Philippe Starck. Why do we laud their work as hallmarks of great design but look at the same level of creative eccentricity in Kanye as the mad ramblings of a non-designer? Well, I think I answered our question right there.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a weird elitism at play here. Kanye\u2019s designs don\u2019t receive the same treatment as Gaudi or Karim Rashid because Kanye never went to design school. Try and put that rather odd distinction aside and your argument really falls apart, doesn\u2019t it? We really don\u2019t cut Kanye the same amount of slack because he\u2019s also a controversial figure in real life and since he\u2019s more primarily known for his music, it\u2019s natural to think that design is some sort of \u2018side gig\u2019 for him. BUT\u2026 apples to apples, how much more different is Kanye\u2019s design aesthetic from, say, Luigi Colani or Zaha Hadid? Don\u2019t the Yeezy line of footwear looks just about as awkwardly organic and alien-like as Zaha Hadid\u2019s own architectural pieces? I dare you to look at Qatar\u2019s Al Wakrah stadium and tell me it doesn\u2019t have the same alien-ish form language as the Yeezy Foam Runners. Or at Colani\u2019s approach to form generation and tell me that it\u2019s just about as bizarre and visceral as West\u2019s. Kanye isn\u2019t a \u2018designer\u2019 in the puristic sense \u2013 he probably doesn\u2019t stick to a rigid design process. He probably doesn\u2019t use Photoshop or Autodesk Fusion 360, and I bet he doesn\u2019t quite know a thing about 3D printing. He doesn\u2019t have clients from hell who ask for 20 iterations before selecting the first concept direction you had originally showed them, and even though this hurts, he probably doesn\u2019t have to follow up for payments. However, he\u2019s incredibly expressive, knows how to create iconic products, and from whatever I\u2019ve found online, his shoes tick all the right boxes \u2013 they\u2019re comfortable, durable, and people love to wear them. <strong>So why do we hate them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_394883\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394883\" class=\"size-full wp-image-394883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_2.jpg\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394883\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-394883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-394883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zaha Hadid\u2019s Al Wakrah Stadium [Left] and Yeezy Foam Runners [Right]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"To_understand_Kanye_you_first_need_to_understand_the_cultural_crossroads_we_are_at\"><\/span>To understand Kanye, you first need to understand the cultural crossroads we are at.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Remember the Sony Playstation 5? The Cybertruck? The \u2018Cheesegrater\u2019 Mac Pro? Dyson\u2019s air purifying headphones? They all had one thing in common \u2013 they were deeply polarizing. Everyone had an opinion about them, and just like putting pineapple on pizzas or arguing whether a random dress was white and gold or blue and black, they had the internet up in arms. Similarly, you either like the Yeezy Foam Runners or hate them \u2013 there\u2019s no in-between. That seems to be the cultural pitstop humanity is currently at.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve often wondered what design movement we currently are in. Looking back at the past, you had movements like Art Noveau, Art Deco, Dadaism, Bauhaus, Memphis 2.0, Blobject, and most recently, Minimalism. So which movement are we currently in? Based just on the past couple of examples and also just the cultural moment we live in, I like to dub this phase \u2018Polarism\u2019. In a world filled with seven billion people, it\u2019s practically impossible to please everyone\u2026 so the best you can do is garner a reaction \u2013 positive or negative. Our internet-connected world also has a tendency to jump from one subject to another at lightning speed\u2026 so a good design by that very standard is a design that occupies neural space for as long as possible \u2013 and the chances of something lingering around in your head are only maximized when the internet is debating\/arguing about it. You\u2019re forced to pick sides, and you\u2019re forced to vehemently defend your side with the kind of mad fervor often reserved for religion or politics. As bad as that sounds, you have to admit that it\u2019s kind of genius too.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t to say that every single designer must try to execute some Machiavellian plan and divide the internet with everything they do. I strongly disagree with this approach, and to be brutally honest I don\u2019t think this is what Kanye is trying to do either. His approach to design, just like with his music, is to create something iconic that gets everyone talking.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Design_Analysis_of_the_Yeezy_sliders\"><\/span>A Design Analysis of the Yeezy sliders.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Kanye West a Good DESIGNER? Yeezy Design Analysis\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTnz_nG9iUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The original idea for this piece came from my good friend <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdgUN8rX3SEb9L7FDub3I6A\">John Mauriello<\/a>, who created an incredible video on exactly the same topic, where he analyzed Kanye\u2019s work from both micro and macroscopic views. The video\u2019s right up here for you to watch if you\u2019re interested in hearing what he has to say. However, without further deliberation, let\u2019s quickly perform a design analysis on Kanye\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, there are a few things you need to consider while analyzing Kanye\u2019s \u2018design portfolio\u2019 if you will. For starters, he doesn\u2019t work alone \u2013 he DOES have a design team, led by Nur Abbas (formerly of Louis Vuitton and UNIQLO) and Steven Smith (who previously worked at Adidas and Nike), who help him realize his vision and bring a level of design and manufacturing expertise to the picture so the Yeezy products are still rooted in feasibility and reality. However, to appreciate Kanye\u2019s unbridled rawness, it\u2019s important to also realize that he\u2019s never been restricted the way conventional design teams have. Adidas famously collaborated with Kanye on the one condition that he had complete and full creative control, which sort of creates a unique set of conditions that not many designers today get to experience \u2013 loads of capital and zero constraints. It\u2019s natural for designers to dial down their wild ideas fearing client backlash, but Kanye and his team have absolutely no such qualms. <strong>This<\/strong> is what unrestricted creativity looks like, and if you hate it, I can\u2019t help speculate that you\u2019re probably a little jealous too!<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kanyes_biggest_crime_was_making_design_%E2%80%98unboring_again\"><\/span>Kanye\u2019s biggest crime was making design \u2018unboring\u2019 again<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Back to the footwear themselves. John makes a few rather interesting points in his video which I\u2019m about to conveniently borrow for the purpose of this article. He highlights the similarities between Kanye\u2019s footwear and the Cambrian Era \u2013 a 53.4 million year-long period that saw an absolute explosion in marine animal evolution. This was a time that saw probably the wildest kind of animals as nature played the role of a mad scientist, developing some incredibly unique (and terrifying-looking) sea creatures just to see what would stick. You had animals with shells, 8 legs, spiked backs, exoskeletons, the works. All these animals existed in roughly the same era, and provided incredible diversity to the oceans before oxygen levels drastically fell, wiping them all out. Kanye\u2019s works feel like the Cambrian era of footwear design too, with this explosion of a new aesthetic that sort of defies logic, but pushes the conversation forward in unique ways.<\/p>\n<p>I use the term \u2018defies logic\u2019 rather loosely here because logic seems to be the only weapon designers have in their case against Kanye. Every designer is taught the Gestalt Laws of Visual Perception \u2013 7 laws that teach us how to guide the eyes of the user, employing different ways to entice, educate, and engage people who come across our work. For the most part, it seems like Kanye\u2019s designs don\u2019t necessarily adhere to these principles strictly. They look like they\u2019re alien objects from an alien world where sense and symmetry have little value \u2013 to which my im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te devil\u2019s advocate question is \u2013 why does a shoe need to have sense OR symmetry? The last time I checked, the overarching purpose of a shoe was simply to be comfortable, fashionable, and a commercial success.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_394893\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394893\" class=\"wp-image-394893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1280\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_3.jpg\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394893\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-394893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1280\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2022\/08\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/kanye_good_designer_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-394893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hallucigenia from the Cambrian Era [Top] and the Adidas Yeezy 450 Sneakers [Bottom]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kanye is an incredibly outspoken person too, as Mauriello\u2019s video highlights a snippet of the rapper absolutely lambasting Lady Gaga who was briefly the creative director at Polaroid. \u201cI like some of the Gaga songs\u2026 what the f*** does she know about cameras?!\u201d he asks, confusedly. While he\u2019s absolutely right, he also vindicates himself in the eyes of the design community. A pair of shoes is arguably less complex than a camera. If Kanye was left to his devices to redesign Polaroid\u2019s imaging systems or its camera\u2019s user interface, chances are he\u2019d make an absolute mess of it. That\u2019s an area that requires design expertise, systems thinking, constant reiteration, user-behavior research, workflow analyses, and a lot of UI\/UX work. That aspect of design is best left to designers who are trained\/experienced in those very domains, just the same way you wouldn\u2019t ask Kanye to design the docking interface on the International Space Station. He isn\u2019t way over his head, because he knows exactly where he brings value.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kanyes_Creative_Process\"><\/span>Kanye\u2019s Creative Process<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>One of the interesting new approaches Kanye brings to design is his ability to collaborate. Music in itself is a collaborative process and for Kanye, the design process is relatively similar to jamming with other musicians \u2013 everyone knows their roles and exactly where to contribute. A drummer doesn\u2019t just pick up an electric guitar on a whim, or worse, grab the microphone and start singing the lead vocals. A band is a classic example of a hive mind that works like a singular organism, with everyone contributing in their own way towards an end goal \u2013 and for Kanye, that same approach carries forward to design too.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye being an outsider is actually a great thing in that regard just for all the unknowns he brings. Steve Jobs, an outsider, completely revolutionized the music industry and music ownership too. Besides, design\u2019s inherent role is to support and supplement other professions, so as long as you\u2019re creative (and you\u2019ve got a team that can take care of the complexities), you can design. Sure, there\u2019s also the fact that your designs have to be user-friendly, which is why Kanye doesn\u2019t manufacture the shoes himself but rather has a team of fashion designers helping execute his vision. There\u2019s a collaborative process where art and usability come together seamlessly. It\u2019s pretty much the perfect melting pot.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mOFlTiR.gif\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mOFlTiR.gif\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mOFlTiR.gif\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2022\/08\/13\/is-kanye-west-a-good-designer\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"Is Kanye West a Good Designer?\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mOFlTiR.gif\"><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"So%E2%80%A6_IS_Kanye_a_good_designer\"><\/span>So\u2026 IS Kanye a good designer?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Subjectively? I don\u2019t see myself wearing the stuff he makes, but that can\u2019t possibly be a referendum on his design abilities. I don\u2019t wear wristwatches, but that doesn\u2019t mean Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille make badly designed timepieces. Personal choice is never a parameter for judging something objectively.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye may not be \u2018your\u2019 breed of designer, but he\u2019s without a shred of doubt an incredibly talented creator. Sure, you could argue (objectively even) that his brand of design borders more on art than it does on puristic user-centered design\u2026and truth be told, in the fashion industry, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that at all. If Kanye ever designs MRI machines or stealth aircrafts, I\u2019ll be the first one to call BS on his work.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Kanye\u2019s work is marvelous because it makes me question my own approach to analyzing design, and it also lets me reconnect with modern pop culture. Yes, the Foam Runners look weird to me, and maybe they do to you too\u2026 but if your only thought is \u201cWhy are the shoes shaped like that?\u201d just try asking yourself the opposite question. Why aren\u2019t other shoes shaped like this too? If there\u2019s one single takeaway from this piece, it\u2019s that let\u2019s not equate \u2018different\u2019 with \u2018bad\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"swp-content-locator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5' style=\" margin: clear: both>\n<amp-ad width=\"100vw\" height=\"320\" type=\"adsense\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0648786275385337\" data-ad-slot=\"9466393889\" data-auto-format=\"rspv\" data-full-width=\"\"><\/p>\n<div overflow=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><\/amp-ad>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"vcard author\"><br \/>\n<span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sarang Sheth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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