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Last post: 11 months, 4 weeks ago | Thread started: Nov 21, 07, 3:17 p.m.
- Witt
it's ok. picture is cleverly off balance like a new paradigma. And that is just what I don't get. I just don't get what "contemporary" means anymore... is it just newness for the sake of it? Artists just look for new ways for putting shit in a clever way?
How clever is that, it is the question?
ty.


- Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:53 p.m. – Permalink
- minimalista
DesignObserver wrote about this and the designer responded:
http://www.designobserver.com/ar…
- Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:57 p.m. – Permalink
- Witt
I'm still waiting for someone to explain me what's the relation between graphics and words. I found those two completely different experiences and still (in my heart) I find no way of having one talking about each other. This to say that none of this (and least of all these uprising of graphical attitude from otherwise concerned people) makes any sense to me. I do not understand it in a philosophical way. I mean, what knowledge does it pass through, what does it work with, what is it's point?
Presently I think it's none, and although I appreciate new form I'm sad that that it is apparently sufficient for most of the world.
Well I don't think it's good enough. I want meaning.


- Dog-earNov 21, 07, 5:25 p.m. – Permalink
- minimalista
I think the type is awful. I guess I'm too much of a traditionalist when it comes to typography.

- Dog-earNov 21, 07, 5:25 p.m. – Permalink
- neue75_bold
Making design deliberately bad to garner more attention under the guise of having more stopping power is nothing new and I for one don't buy it...
What I wonder is where are all these slick, pulled-back, clean magazines that he refers to? If anything we're at a terrible state with editorial design, market saturation is at an all time high yet most publications look as though they've been put together by a recent new media graduate...
I've seen an actual copy of it and it's a load of pish.. He hasn't even taken it far enough to the realm of bad design to make it good, it just sits somewhere in between amateurish and conceptual...
At the end of the day, good magazine design should be more about the content, rather than the casing...

- Dog-earNov 22, 07, 1:19 a.m. – Permalink
- neue75_bold
heh, I was supposed to be working on that redesign at my previous studio, then it fell through... :(


- Dog-earNov 22, 07, 2:51 a.m. – Permalink
- Anders
I think it's interesting that a lot of people's first reactions is that it's ugly or bad design, it reminds me of the notion that most lay people consider design as something that is made pretty.
Isn't a designer someone who should do whatever necessary to convey a feeling, reaction etc. to the viewer.. and take it all it the way?


- Dog-earNov 22, 07, 3:34 a.m. – Permalink
- uncle_helv
Based on those screenshots, it looks pretty poor, that cover sucks, wasted opportunity.


- Dog-earNov 22, 07, 3:47 a.m. – Permalink



