Timelessness...
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- bored2death0
I agree that there are design principles that are timeless (golden mean), but the idea of a design being timeless is absurd.
Modernists claimed to be creating timeless design and it all looks dated and rooted in the time in was made.
- Design principles are manifested in style. Style is born of a unique period in time.bored2death
- Are we all not modernists?!ideaist
- http://www.etymonlin…ideaist
- c.1300, stile, "designation, title, manner or mode of expression," Interesting...ideaist
- other way around man, that was my point. design is first style is applied to designeieio
- its not simply a modernist idea, modernists just made this point in a very specific and rigid contexteieio
- Some modernist stuff ages more gracefully than post-modernism, architecture especiallyvaxorcist
- georgesIII0
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this is no logo, its a religious sign.
I bet a cross will fit too- that is the flag of japanquack
- look above your postgeorgesIII
- who cares it's still a classic graphicdoesnotexist
- georgesIII0
- can not agreequack
- like I'm going to seriously discuss it with you :)georgesIII
- scarabin0
my understanding is that for a design to truly be timeless, you must remove ALL style/trend from it, so that you simply cannot place it in a time period when viewed out of context.
perhaps the reason it's so easy to say "there's no such thing as a timeless design" is that creating a design that is visually appealing while being utterly devoid of style is a fucking difficult thing to do and there are very few examples. some of the only few true examples of timeless design would be simple shapes. circles, squares, triangles etc could have been created by early man just as they could be created by modern man. the swastika above comes close, but you can still date it back to ancient, eastern asia.
incidentally, i feel that with the saturation of current media with corporations fighting for your brain time with the flashiest ads and design has moved us into an era where timelessness is no longer an imperative. timeless, basic shapes don't grab you by the balls in the way that paint drips and crazy color palettes do.
- I don't think that's true though - design simply needs to make a connection, and _last_, to be timeless, imo.lukus_W
- scarabin0
i would not venture to say that a timeless design is somehow better than a trendy one. they're two different approaches that convey two different meanings.
a bank, for examples wants to be seen as something that will NEVER change.
for others, it's a perfectly acceptable strategy to "update" their look or whatever as trends come and go.
- georgesIII0
- I think this is a messDodecahedron
- I see more than two symbols here, including a fortune cookie.Amicus
- scarabin0
what's really at question here is your definition of "timeless"...
to some of you it just means "an old mark that's still around"
- nbq0
- jaylarson0
easy: timelessness is a myth. nothing is permanent.
- lukus_W0
Another way of thinking about timelessness, is perseverance.