Whats up with the Grage sale designs
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- umhello
I just wanted to know if anyoe is really digging the "garage sale" design, you know, the stuff that looks like it was created by a kid and stored ina closet for too many years. A good example:
p.s. just my opinon w.w.
- Typographica0
I'm not a fan of "trends" in general, but I think this one is productive. It's elements are less susceptible to overuse like the techno/mod trends (45 degree lines, notched boxes) because it's eclectic by definition. The anti-web. I love it.
- umhello0
I have never liked the trends myself, but thats how new ideas come about at times, i suppose. The only thing is there is adifference between eclectic(sp?) and crappy. Maybe eclectic isn the right word for it. I think it would become eclectic if it was, say, photography of childrens toys and such, which can be some great work, but as far as design wise, I dont really remember it ever being a hodge podge of crap spewed onto a page.
- ********0
Like any style, I only dig it if it's well done and gives me "that certain feeling". And surely this is the case. Lovin' it™
- DutchBoy0
oh my.. sweet!
nice job, wonderwagon!
- ********0
It's elements are less susceptible to overuse like the techno/mod trends (45 degree lines, notched boxes)
Typographica
(apr 22 04, 20:44)
-------------------That's probably the only style that I don't dig even if it's technically well done. "2A is my enemy"... Repeat 3 times in front of mirror.
- Gorbie0
neu-dada. this time it's commercial.
honesty, it's okay. if there is a trend i despise, it's that of designers hating movements and trends in their industry. It's progression.
Rome - unlike wonderwagon's advertisment - wasn't built in a day.
- ********0
Well, as for me... I'm not a designer, this is not my industry. I'm just an intruder. And a hater ;D
- fate0
I'm just glad isometric pixel sites are starting to die down.
- ********0
Don't get me started with that. I have tons of hate for those!
- SF20
ha, i'm in the middle of making another one.
- Gorbie0
it wasn't a comment directed at you '77.
I just find the rejection of visual trends, ignorant.
If a designer was to produce a piece of commercial work, that had no connection or derivation to, or from anything before it - the work would most likely alienate itself. Not only from it's ideas, but from it's target audience.
- umhello0
I'm not a fan of "trends" in general, but I think this one is productive. It's elements are less susceptible to overuse like the techno/mod trends (45 degree lines, notched boxes) because it's eclectic by definition. The anti-web. I love it.
Typographica
--------------------------------...I dont know how old you guys are, but I have noticed it poping up all over the place. If i recall correctly I saw it in print a while back in a design magazine, then it started popping up on the web mixed in with the 3 point pixel sites, then finally it was used by mtv. Since the mtv appearance, I trend to see it more and more, both in print(more so) and all over the web.
- ********0
it wasn't a comment directed at you '77.
Gorbie
(apr 22 04, 21:10)
-------------------Cool, now I won't have to tell my bitches to kill you :P Ha ha! I know, trends are necessary, but I just can't help hating what I call "2Advancism"...
- Gorbie0
because these ads and publications and commercials are all being produced by designers!
designers that are most likely very interested in the culture and times in which we live in.
- fate0
Just yesterday a potential client wanted a site "cool, you know, like 2advanced!"
I just cringed and said "goodbye"
- ********0
Just yesterday a potential client wanted a site "cool, you know, like 2advanced!"
I just cringed and said "goodbye"
fate
(apr 22 04, 21:17)
-------------------Well done! I would have been a bit more Keysersozeish tho... Would have killed him, his family, his friends, burned their houses... No mercy!
- umhello0
I guess thats what makes the difference between good designers and "designers!". Anything that is a step above the rest tends to become alienated anyways. This doesnt mean that the target audience is missed, just that its different. The mistake I see alot of is when some clients say "2A-ish", they mean something that is different, not necessary a replica, then there are some that want exactly that.
- fate0
Hey just speaking of trends and whatnot, is "the 2a style" really so ineffective when the layman always seems so impressed by it?
- SF20
was just about to say that fate
- Gorbie0
one of my girlfriend's history professors told her class that "designers are the vanguard of society - that they can see things happen before the rest of us"
i think that was quite flattering.