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  • Anders

    http://www.032c.com/images/cover/032c_14_cover.jpg

    What do you think of the new 032c redesign?

    Nov 21, 07, 3:17 p.m. – Permalink
  • jaylarson

    Ugly is in?

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:39 p.m. – Permalink
  • Rand

    stretched type, do not like

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:43 p.m. – Permalink
  • Jaline

    If the black box/shape and everything within it was removed, the design would be decent.

    • haha, succinctly put.kelpie
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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:48 p.m. – Permalink
  • 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.

    • gosh I'm stupid yeah but after 47 minutes-thought the concept of "Contemporary" still does not compute beyond the obvious.Witt1/3
      I think the real question should be, "can you reply to a reply"?kalkal2/3
      Yes.kalkal3/3
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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:53 p.m. – Permalink
  • Llyod

    looks like it was done by a blind man

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:54 p.m. – Permalink
  • minimalista

    DesignObserver wrote about this and the designer responded:
    http://www.designobserver.com/ar…

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:57 p.m. – Permalink
  • Witt

    i guess that's a fuck-trend cover. I like the idea. But that is not the aim of artistic exploit is it. shouldn't they be worried about... wait... there's nothing left to worry about.

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 3:59 p.m. – Permalink
  • horton

    shame. i'm all for discordance, can be a beautiful thing. but trying to be ugly... bunch of wankers.

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 4:33 p.m. – Permalink
  • Anders

    As Mr. Meiré pointed out, the critics haven't even read the entire magazine but only seen a few screenshots online.
    I'm sorry to say that I haven't read the magazine either, but I can see something strange and beautiful in it.

    http://www.032c.com/

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 4:43 p.m. – Permalink
  • _eh_

    what a load of codswallop

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    Dog-earNov 21, 07, 4:54 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.

    • I'm not sure I made any sense, but the point was design must evolve beyond "cool" or "not cool" just because it meets your eye.Witt1/3
      ... eye. It must go beyond form and became a useful language not overlapping the language that exists already...Witt2/3
      became=becomeWitt3/3
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    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.

    • I've only seen screenshots, maybe I shouldn't comment until I see an actual copy.minimalista
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    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...

    • totally, say what you like about carson *cough *spit, but at least there was a link between his style and the editorial stylekelpie
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    Dog-earNov 22, 07, 1:19 a.m. – Permalink
  • joqui

    Brrr..
    Ugly redesigns are hot... same storywith Identity Matters (dutch mag). The old design was quite good but now...:(

    http://www.fontysmediatheek.nl/wiki/images/a/a5/Identitimatters5.jpg

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    Dog-earNov 22, 07, 2:50 a.m. – Permalink
  • neue75_bold

    heh, I was supposed to be working on that redesign at my previous studio, then it fell through... :(

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    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?

    • that's an ad designer...
      but as I said, I've seen the mag, it has nothing to do with the content, it's just another layer of styling..
      neue75_bold1/2
      layer of styling...neue75_bold2/2
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    Dog-earNov 22, 07, 3:34 a.m. – Permalink
  • agentfour

    This stuff is all trend. It happened years ago and it will happen again years from now. Each action has a reaction. Art, design, fashion, it all comes full circle – albeit more extreme in each generation.

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    Dog-earNov 22, 07, 3:41 a.m. – Permalink
  • uncle_helv

    Based on those screenshots, it looks pretty poor, that cover sucks, wasted opportunity.

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

    http://www.myspace.com

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    Dog-earNov 22, 07, 4:17 a.m. – Permalink
  • rabattski

    I like it. It's not a trend. Not yet but maybe a precursor of one.

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    Dog-earNov 22, 07, 4:29 a.m. – Permalink

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