Design fads?
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agentfour - what I was trying to say is that the source of these fads (trace the fad back) before 123klan and digital artists were using this, it was already a pretty much established trend in other areas of design, painting, and art. This was adopted from early tagging/writing using a fat-cap which ofter produced results like the dripping splotch. I think the element became a novelty or writing just like the vowel-less / words and pixel graphics became a novelty of digital design. Likewise, it's intresting to see some street artists like the space invaders dude, trying to reproduce pixel art in the real-world... http://www.space-invaders.com/
To my knowledge it was McGee who first started coloring his work with this element (spray and drip) most recently... other artists in this genre helped it proliferate by using it as well... eventually it was picked up and recreated digitally but the fact it was done with vectors says little to me as it is at heart the same element. If anything it says that digital artists were looking for a way to make thier work look urban and gritty.
This wouldent be the first time either... David Carson is a good example of trying to "grunge" up digital and print by some of the fonts he designed back in the 90's.
Anyway, I post a few just as refrence for people who may not be familiar with McGee and this type of style:
Kinsey
Old novelties often make strong trends. I'll be surprised if CGA color schemes and dot-matrix printing don't make a comeback soon. The rebirth of ascii porn into the mainsream, etc.
With pattern based printmaking in textiles becoming increasingly popular, ascii pattern / embrodery doesn't seem too far off... someones gonna do it.