Design fads?
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- PyroVesten
I'm making a poster for an assignment which is basically a pisstake of a few design fads which popped up out of nowhere and suddenly appeared on EVERYWHERE. The two biggest things that come to mind in recent times are those effing drips (usually falling from circles), which also branched off to graffiti (or the other way around) and the lines/arrows which randomly run across images and change direction once or twice for no real reason. Sure they look cool but fuck... they are as far-reaching and infectious as the Pokémon fad. Gotta cach 'em all!
Anyway, can anyone remind me of any other fads (images would be a great help as I've only been paying attention to the industry to a couple of years). Any ideas for the poster itself would be helpful too. There are some criteria to meet but at the moment I'm basing it on an event showcasing the works of some fictional fad-embracing digital artists. The even is to be called 'DesignWank'.
Cheers.
- toe_knee0
deers wearing trucker hats
- version30
with wings
- clerk0
incorporated in a crest.
- randoman0
another design fad is the design industry being hypocritical of things like this. so maybe add this thread and others like it to your design wank.
- version30
45 degree lines and extranneous circles, and sarcasm
- randoman0
What might be intresting is to trace the root of the fad.
For instance, the circle with drips coming down that you mention is most obvious linked to spray=paint stencil art which is big now... it was an element that allowed digital or print work to take on a rough/gritty urban street style.
Less know are the roots of leaving vowels out of words like ths crc vr2l. This was actually adopted from early programming code where the limits of memory caused programmers to be cheap with using characters. The original term for this was Hungrian programming, because the dude that started it was Hungarian (and worked for Apple Computer). Why was that a fad? Well it looked cool, and at the time everyone was very hung up on the "Virtual, Cyber, Code" astetitc so it fit well.
See if you can trace the reason behind fads such as the 45 degree angle, Royal Iconography (the lions, crown, etc.).
It's all to easy to exploit them, but very few dive into the root cause. Find out about the times they appear and how the trends reflect the current situtaion or climate in out world.
At least you stand to gain something useful out of your project... and who knows, maybe you'll be armed with the know-how to start the next one.
- chameleonic0
text on a 45 degree angle
- agentfour0
What might be intresting is to trace the root of the fad.
For instance, the circle with drips coming down that you mention is most obvious linked to spray=paint stencil art which is big now... it was an element that allowed digital or print work to take on a rough/gritty urban street style.
randoman
(Apr 11 05, 01:20)everyone just ripped this from 123klan and then everyone else ripped it from those who ripped it from 123klan
- randoman0
actually if you want to bring up where it first appeared to be simulated (ie. not a direct result of actual spray paint), then you would want to credit artists like Barry McGee, Futura2000, Arktip (not an artist).
There was a trend in print and painting way before 123Klan, DEMO, et al picked up on it. This style was thriving for sometime.
- Peter0
Automatically traced pictures/images to vector graphics
- pushbutton0
ornaments.
- Peter0
Stretched pixels, starting from somewhere around the center of an image
- stem0
Enter response: A programme screened on Channel 4 (UK) on Saturday might give you a few ideas:
Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice
Art critic Matthew Collings revisits the Impressionists to reclaim the movement as the greatest of all in modern art, bar none.
He was looking at how the art of the day is a reaction to what came before. Manet borrowed from Da Vinci and parodied his contempoaries in the same artwork. The establishment hated their work, so they set up their own exhibition.
There's nothing new under the sun! - except new ways of selling it!!!
- fifty500
laurel leaf crests, anything with antlers, text ornaments, anything copying what Apple is doing.
On that note, is anyone here familiar with Valu Home Centre? They might just be in the Buffalo area but I've seen their commercials on TV while living in Toronto and they ripped the iPod commercial style by making this dancing jackass into an all black silhouette in front of iPod-like coloured backgrounds. cheesy as hell and I hate all of their commercials.
- stem0
Take a look at Star Wars, some would say the ultimate post-modern film. Despite being pidgeonholed as "science fiction", it takes influence from diverse sources. Old English heraldry, gets a good thrashing!!
I like the 50's retro styling of the Land Cruiser in "A New Hope".
I guess the main thing with the poster is not to get bogged down with literal graphic styles of today, but work on the narrative or concept of the piece of work.
What is it you are trying to say about fads and styles following and mimiking other styles. I think it's about the human condition. Taking small, tentative steps or -
Monkey See, Monkey Do!!
- stphn0
pink and pixel fonts
- Rand0
sparkles, glows, dotted drawn lines, nature vector art drawn over photos
- josimarX0
you're a fud.
oh, right you said fad.
- fake_it_up0
2pt text... ooorrrrrr html in 2pt text.....
1999-2000 2advanced/chapter 3 STIZZZZILLLLLLLEEEE
- Bluejam0
designers talking like gangsta's