design cliches
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- fresnobob0
Modernism is cliche.
- necro0
word about calling out the people who have been hating...
where are your groundbreaking sites so we can see what will be the next big thing. So what if there are trends in design. I like to try to mix and match things to try to make my own thing...nothing is new, nobody is original, we are just designers for God's sake. Why does everyone insist on hating on NT?
- sauerbraten0
threads about design cliches.
- punch0
Nice thread. I'm getting my own site ready to rock, so the suggestions help.
Well, it's true that designers have to be both the pimp and the whore in this business, so it's always good for us to practice some serious critiquing of the industry. Here is mine:
Someone said something in an earlier postabout PoMo being the death of design. I friggin agree. Postmodernism is really parasitical by definition. The movement isn't so much about innovation as much as appropriation and 'cultural pastiche' (an artfag word if you ever heard one). It was cool like 10-20 years ago when designers could lift interesting cultural elements out of context, smash them to bits, and ressurect them into some new freaky frankenstein monster called ART.
But these days the original source material is starting to lose its meaning (by being distanced from its context- hence the cliches), and in another 20 years there will be nothing left to 'deconstruct'. Soon design will reach the point when it will have swallowed and regurgitated EVERYTHING, when every retro fad will have been done to death, when every cultural meme will be completely trivialized and rendered meaningless. When that time comes, our material civilization will end up schizophrenic and without direction (but then again, maybe some of you think that's cool). That is why postmodernism is on the way out. It is potent only as long as the stuff it rips off is potent.
Of course, I'm not one to preach. I'm always ripping off and restyling old school design like everyone else. The question, I suppose, is how obscure can you go. My (trucker) hat off to any designer whose work may be regarded as truly original in the 21st century. Not many out there.
On that note, I hope people will stop putting heraldric eagles in their logos.
- bomy_dick0
i love gran turismo Ford cars , violet, with some big cogollas to smoke inside, chrome paint otn the ash tray with a button to get rid of the ash
'morning all : the good sun of cataluna is bathing me this morning with a nice coffee and a sweet spliff
i love spain..
- eggnog0
hey sauerbraten. some dude pulled that one out about 35 posts back. get on the ball brahski!!!!
this thread wasn't started so we could all piss on design trends. i was interested in seeing what designer's outside my direct circle consider cliched. i think we all use tricks that are a bit played out from time to time. that's okay. sometimes cliches are the most effective way to meet your goals. i wasn't trying to sell them short. thanks for all the responses. you've been mucho helpful.
also, i think NT looks smashing. no complaint's here.
- contribute0
Fresnobob, how can something as modernism be cliche when it hasn't been around for years? Postmodernism mean AFTER modernism, which are the times in which we now reside. You may say that the modernist values some of us hold on to are chiche, but modernism has no place here.
- -_MU_-0
Eurostile
Box shots and Bullet points in software advertsJust cos its cliche doesnt mean its not good.
- donal0
goodnight!
- ********0
Have some of you heard yourselves...
- ozhanlion0
cli·ché also cliche Pronunciation Key (kl-sh)
n.
A trite or overused expression or idea.-using words with description.
- jox0
Switching verbs in sentences with the word "anal", as in:
"Last night I analed to the store to get some eggs"
Maybe that's just me?
- tomkat0
yeah. jox.. too much german pr0n
: )
- 10mtl0
skulls
- Nirvous0
I'm still a fan of Eurostile .... overused or not .... beautiful letters.
- Chimp0
Any thing that looks like it has been done by Designers Republic
- ********0
The use of dripping paint....
- ********0
calligraphy, trees (although now that i see less of them i want them back) , people, and Europe
- kinetix0
awesome thread......
bump-o
