Design fads?
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- rasko40
that shit is weak. i mean, its not like it requires any thought, its just a shoplifting spree.
- skelly0
everyone's on that RGB thing. CMYK is trendy too. and the roman alphabet is overused.
- Dr_Jay0
don't forget the "swoosh" logo trend of the 90's... very few fads have been as blatant and as cheesy.
- fake_it_up0
metrosexual designers wearing girls pants.....
i hope the term metrosexual is a fad too.....
- phazeone0
really want to be trendy?
i think the hottest trend right now is using photoshop and illustrator..
use those programs, and you're gauranteed to rock the current fads.
o_0
- PyroVesten0
Thanks for the responses all. Keep 'em coming. I'll have to start implementing some of these fads. I couldn't possibly have thought of 1/10th of them on my own so I appreciate it. Currently what I've got is a colour scheme of white background (well blank canvas), homosexual pink, small amounts of rich black and shades of grey for text. I've chucked in a black and while silhouette of Che Guevara (...*wonders how many of you own a Che shirt or badge*.... :P), a 6/10th of a circle with a rainbow stroke and a line that runs across part of the page from horizontal to 45 degrees back to horizontal. I need to chuck a stencil in there (or make Che look more like one) and maybe some graffiti. I might get a few mock-ups online when it's coming together and call for suggestions on fonts etc.
After reading the slew of replies I'll be sure a deer and crest make their way into the image along with all the other stuff that I've already forgotten and will have to go back through replies to find.
Thanks loads. I love you all.
- jamble0
Cover the trend towards people posting shite doodles on their sites and then DiK et all claiming they're amazing illustrations when the trained eye can clearly see they're doodles.
- fake_it_up0
jamble
HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHH...
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- randoman0
agentfour - what I was trying to say is that the source of these fads (trace the fad back) before 123klan and digital artists were using this, it was already a pretty much established trend in other areas of design, painting, and art. This was adopted from early tagging/writing using a fat-cap which ofter produced results like the dripping splotch. I think the element became a novelty or writing just like the vowel-less / words and pixel graphics became a novelty of digital design. Likewise, it's intresting to see some street artists like the space invaders dude, trying to reproduce pixel art in the real-world... http://www.space-invaders.com/
To my knowledge it was McGee who first started coloring his work with this element (spray and drip) most recently... other artists in this genre helped it proliferate by using it as well... eventually it was picked up and recreated digitally but the fact it was done with vectors says little to me as it is at heart the same element. If anything it says that digital artists were looking for a way to make thier work look urban and gritty.
This wouldent be the first time either... David Carson is a good example of trying to "grunge" up digital and print by some of the fonts he designed back in the 90's.
Anyway, I post a few just as refrence for people who may not be familiar with McGee and this type of style:
Kinsey
Old novelties often make strong trends. I'll be surprised if CGA color schemes and dot-matrix printing don't make a comeback soon. The rebirth of ascii porn into the mainsream, etc.
With pattern based printmaking in textiles becoming increasingly popular, ascii pattern / embrodery doesn't seem too far off... someones gonna do it.
- josimarX0
you're a fud.
oh, right you said fad.
- toe_knee0
deers wearing trucker hats
- mr_snuggles0
word jamble.
- stem0
Potato prints and blow-paintings never seem to go out of fashion!
The bedrock of any education in mark-making.
It doesn't matter how the mark is made. Question is - What's the motivation for the mark?
- version30
with wings
- clerk0
incorporated in a crest.
- phazeone0
posting twice about pink websites containing vector traced anime deer wearing trucker hats dancing on dirty a giant oversized dirty fonts (on a 45 degree angle) backed up by a 1960 brown and baby blue wallpaper patter background, all operated by extremely poorly designed flash menu (with yellow text in size 1 print fonts) that allows you to turn on and off jukebox playing a lofi clip of the best emo country goth electro band in the world that performs at some bar near your moms house that the rest of the world has never heard of, all nicely contained in a huge mess of iframes is DEFINITELY the new black.
o_O
- 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.
- SteveJobs0
i haven't read all the responses, but i don't personally know any design fags.
- basar0
I see everything in constant juxtaposition...there's nothing wrong with identifying fads...
pixel art PLUS ancient wallpaper patterns and belgian lace
brown PLUS pink
georgia as a screen font
sketchbooks / ink / felt tip, etc
btw 45 degree lines are so 2001, heraldry is so 2002.
- version30
45 degree lines and extranneous circles, and sarcasm