present: kitsch = trendy
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- B2K
anyone else noticed !?
- mrdobolina0
kitsch has been trendy for years.
- Danski0
I'm too busy buying hello kitty merchandise to notice that kind of thing.
- B2K0
lately, I can see it everywhere...
videos, comercials, prints, webs...
- schjetne0
Was kitsch ever NOT trendy?
- unknown0
Then there is "good" and "bad" kitch; hence "trendy" or "not trendy"
- unknown0
Anyone noticed (in the UK at least) the amount of lo-fi adverts that look like their shot on a dv cam... and they're usually for snack foods
- unknown0
I wrote 6 thousand words on exactly this subject.
Kitsch in the modern
- B2K0
as JagdPanther remark... it was the "bad" kind of kitsch I was talkin' about... the kind of used without any plausible reason...
- unknown0
well, you can to as everybody else and just follow the flock; easy money. Sometimes ugly becomes nice and everybody and his mother designs.
Or you can do as me, try to invent the deep plate over and over again.
Dunno what the best way to work it. Most fun to think for one self I think. But then you´ll meet people all the time who doen´t know what you´re trying to do, ´cause all they see is "moderne - flavour of the week-kind og stuff.
- blend20
I think the kitch-neu is related to the death of the previous over the top "less is more"-fundamentalism. It is actually serious lashback at minimalism aiming to balance things out. I guess one needs to understand that the best design often incorporates ideas from different levels. You got to have your eye candy in right proportion to the surrounding space.
- unknown0
Yeah, blend2, you´re right, it´s the whole ying/yang thing working it´s mojo on us. But do we just follow, is that the name of the game?!
- reluct0
Don't forget that our kitch is someone elses "good taste".
- unknown0
Also true, the everlasting task of the "haves" and the "have nots". Too many of the last ones have been bosses to me. But then, one fine day, I might find out it´s the other way around and then I´ll talk "different tase" and "everybody has an opinion". Until then; will the real hellraising ADs please stand up!!?
- blend20
Dunno about following the flock. It really isn't that simple. I would rather compare the design work to making scientific studies. You have to acknowledge the work done before you and then create some new application of the previous academic research. Only then you can claim your own work to be valuable. Even if you try to mimic some idea/look you'll still have to adapt it to the purpose of the piece. If you don't, it really isn't design by definition, now is it?
- silver0
"People who enjoy kitsch (cultural products intended to be high quality, but seriously flawed in conception or taste) in a naive, relatively straightforward way may be out of it, but they are still to be sympathized with as fellow human beings who at least have not lost the capacity to feel. People who pretend to enjoy kitsch as part of some lame "anti-hip" put-on are, on the other hand, to be pitied and even despised: Their apparent hipness is nothing but the despair and rage of the emotionally disabled masquerading as coolness; this is cheese, not camp."
read more: http://www.hermenaut.com/a28.sht…
- paulrand0
to the best of my memory (which isn't very good) today's kitsch renaissance was preceeded by yesterday's, which came a short time before the most recent renaissance of minimal/modernism