Design fads?
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- todelete__20
i'm going to sum this up into one post.
45 degree lines
dripping anything
deer
crests
pink
multiple stroked circles of varying sizes
grass/foliage w/above saidwas that it?
- praktiv0
ummmmmm, hellloooooo.....
everything on this and every other portal is a fad...
:)
- kbags0
it's all a big lie, maaaaaan.
lol, this thread is hysterical
- puter0
threads about design fads are a bigger fad then the designs they are talking about.
- fake_it_up0
actually i am a gangsta...
haha
- Bluejam0
designers talking like gangsta's
- fake_it_up0
2pt text... ooorrrrrr html in 2pt text.....
1999-2000 2advanced/chapter 3 STIZZZZILLLLLLLEEEE
- josimarX0
you're a fud.
oh, right you said fad.
- Rand0
sparkles, glows, dotted drawn lines, nature vector art drawn over photos
- stphn0
pink and pixel fonts
- 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!!
- 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
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!!!
- Peter0
Stretched pixels, starting from somewhere around the center of an image
- pushbutton0
ornaments.
- Peter0
Automatically traced pictures/images to vector graphics
- 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.
- 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
- chameleonic0
text on a 45 degree angle
- 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.