Timelessness...
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- fooler20
- what was the fucked up rainbow supposed to represent, anyway?scarabin
- just found the answer, interesting read http://logotalks.com…scarabin
- krisscott210
- And can't seem to find it but Lubalin's logo with three fish..Anyone?krisscott21
- kgvs720
Surprised no one mentioned helvetica
- lukus_W0
Another way of thinking about timelessness, is perseverance.
- jaylarson0
easy: timelessness is a myth. nothing is permanent.
- nbq0
- 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"
- georgesIII0
- I think this is a messDodecahedron
- I see more than two symbols here, including a fortune cookie.Amicus
- 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.
- 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
- georgesIII0
- can not agreequack
- like I'm going to seriously discuss it with you :)georgesIII