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- tank0
hey this thread is starting to get interesting.
- Kevin0
Wow tank, that sounds like an interesting subject. Where are you taking that?
- ********0
What kind of style would you call that? Post-Modern? Anything more specific?
Kevin
(apr 25 04, 02:49)
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Rounded boldism®
- winter0
that's what one gets from constructivism... not as barren as it looks ;)
- DutchBoy0
jesus christ.
that's very well said, winter.
it's exactly my thoughts of tonight.
as i have been struggling a lot with finding a balance in earning money and doing work that satisfies my designer-spirit i have been thinking hard in the last few hours what the best steps are to move towards a better, more balanced, but still excitingly challenging new situation..
my plan is to approach a whole array of potential clients, selected by my carefully seeded list of points of interest, without showing in detail what i have done before. Instead if all feels well, both ways, i will set up a comp and see what we feel about it from that point on.
no reference to previous projects (perhaps only briefly, to gain confidence from the counterpart), no reference to all that is superfluous.
just a fresh beginning at every new challenge, stimulating the mind to rethink the purpose of design for the sake of solving new problems in visual communication.
i think there may be different solutions in finding a satisfied carreer as a designer, and praising the objective 'non authoristic' (sp) beauty of modernist design (muller.brockmann/crouwel etc.) by using our 'authored' rules of reinterpretation, to create a new interest in the past era of print-design.
designing for the internet it is always very good to look back at the set boundaries for legibility and usability. for it is still visual communication that has only made the move from paper to screen. with a little added interactivity.
- winter0
well, there is a book (first publish in 1967!!!) that deals with all this. "constructivism: origins and theory" by George Rickey. take a while and look to those pictures ;) i'm pretty sure that the new builder will be understood.
- winter0
ur right DutchBoy.
but mind that design (and visual communication) is no more than strategy. the only added-value, as it approaches art, is the way it reflects upon itself, and that's why "build" and "neubau" are working around the design reference such as "PMS", "size", "click here", "parent directory", and such, because their not dealing with any purpose except the way design feeds itself and reflects on itself and is progressing so. that's i think why they are some bloody sort of crappy (:D) constructivists and very damn good at it.
furhtermore, your strategy is great. bring your clients to what you think.
- DutchBoy0
thx, winter.
i have been thinking a long time about this actually and i think soon enough i will start with this:
i will not show my design, only write about what i think, feel, rationalize, evaluate, conclude and re-evaluate in life and where it connects to cummunication.
As life needs to constantly keep itself up to date with the set rules of it's environment to maintain, so needs our way of communicating with each other. And re-inventing, without losing full memory of methods from the past, is what is key to evolving as a designer.
Indeed the designs of build and neubau and all others that refer ro modernism made us all review what was going on back then to reinstate it in our own book of laws of todays forms of communication and interaction.
mind you, it's not just fun, the fact that it's been brought to other designers in a very, very attractive way such as people like Michael C. Place do, made a lot of us discuss it and even get lots of books (like i did today) from the library and dig a little deeper in what was the wave of modernism.
the offline exhibition by computerlove and build in Brussels was one of those moments that sparked new thoughts and interest in different design perspectives, cultural, temporal and commercial.
- tank0
'the offline exhibition by computerlove and build in Brussels was one of those moments that sparked new thoughts'
uhm yeah janne,still got the fotos to prove it :)
- DutchBoy0
even so much thought we completely neglected the fact that something might happen to my car back in Antwerp, remember? ;)
btw. i believe i have never seen those pics!
- jevad0
fucking big ass WORD dutchie....
- fred0
Thanks janne!
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The website:
http://computerlove.net/offlineThe pictures:
http://computerlove.net/offline/…
- DutchBoy0
gee, i sure had some spelling errors.. must have been the wine.
:)
- tank0
well kevin i am taking it an the royal academy of antwerp but its not a course...de department here is crap so you have do your own education.
for my graduation project i opening a graphic agency/store.
its located at streetlevel and de agency part is almost in the window so people can walk in and out and give in and output...from this the magzine comes from..its a creative platform for everybody who wants to express themselves visually.my paper will feature in this magazine and also other people wrote for it..i am plannin g to part of this thread in the magazine...
- DutchBoy0
nice tank!!
keep us posted.
- tank0
of course i will have to take some spelling courses