leafs, dears, pandas, growing trees..
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- pocketfilmsfor
anyone knows why many designers of the world, during the last 3 or 4 years have been using so much nature references? trees growing, leafs appearing and animals from cold places...
where did this tendency come from?
i dont mind it, im just curious about the root.
- pocketfilmsfor0
ps
all my love to alan fletcher!
- mr_snuggles0
the environment around us or for some, lack there-of?
- moth0
i hate pandas.
- mrpt0
I like everything about your design, its great....now can you add more pandas.
- Crouwel0
it's become something rare. exploited, it's almost like a commodity.
meh. what do i know.
- kelpie0
its a reaction to our growing geo-political troubles and religio-environmental angst, its a gravitation back toward more earth-centric pagan symbolism.
ok, I'm talking shit.
- mr_snuggles0
no pandas here...
- Crouwel0
hey, pocket. like your site. enjoyed the london story for a bit. bookmarked.
- Crouwel0
wow, snuggles. interesting story.
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Barfing on the page, indeed. And where does it come from, this inability to stop, to hold back, to self-edit? I blame the culture of easy-access: Flickr, Photoshop plug-ins, skateboard culture, IM’ing, DJ mash-ups, and the failure of the slow food movement to gain any traction in the design press. Funny, yes, but I’m actually serious: many a cultural historian has tried, and will try to excavate the provenance of design work that is pictorially layered and comunicationally dense, and they should, because it’s everywhere. It’s on T-shirts at Old Navy and in classrooms at every design school I’ve visited in the last two years. It’s on packaging and in posters and pushing its way through publications and the somberist of annual reports. Some of it is breathtakingly beautiful, compelling, even entertaining. But most of it is excessive, indulgent and impossible to parse. Of course, one might argue that such density makes you slow down and look harder, experiencing deeper meaning as a result. (In this case, maybe the slow food movement has gained some traction.) On the other hand, it’s a can of worms, particularly because it’s so easy to hide behind it — and even harder, in many instances, to "get" what's really going on. Long term, that's going to present some serious obstacles for design.
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my thoughts exactly. but dangerous to vent here..
heh..
- mr_snuggles0
why people who want to talk design don't spend more time there is beyond me...
- tank0
hej you wank
nature has always been an inspiration.http://images.google.com/images?…
shallow remarks like that are kinda crap eh.
- tank0
;)
- Crouwel0
lol
- tank0
you know what really is a new trend..pretending that grpahic design is as important as openheart surgery...
you a friend of mine is a surgeon.
everyday he saves lives..thats put kerning a little bit in perspective ;)one and for all, its the frosting on the cake.
- kelpie0
aye, my cousin's a surgeon - he bought a motorbike while in uni cos he knew the payments would be chump change when he left and is now on his 2nd Lexus.
he's 30.
cunt.
- tank0
yeah and that ;)
- Crouwel0
if "m in d theg ap" was not properly kerned it could cost me my life as a pedestrian.
- kelpie0
an is the tic
- Rand0
nothing else left?