Graphic design in the 00's
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- ethios
I am looking to research this era of design, the most recent and perhaps the least well defined. We have seen an explosion in the distribution and acceptance of design yet I don't know where to start on researching this topic.
If anyone could throw out any names, movements or ideas I would be appreciative.
Thanks!
-Tom
- Witt0
"the conceptless period" is the sole definition that inextricably pops and lingers in my head, like an exquisite animated gif.
- designerror0
2fuckingA
- neue75_bold0
I heard it was over... and I don't think we won...
- neue75_bold0
motioning graphics..
- ethios0
Ah yeah, television idents and visual effects in films really are more mainstream now, any more suggestions?
I definitely agree with you Witt on "the conceptless period", I really havent seen anything deifnable about the past 6 years...
- neue75_bold0
you haven't looked too hard then. There's still bril conceptual work done everyday, all over...
- Witt0
you haven't looked too hard then. There's still bril conceptual work done everyday, all over...
neue75_bold
(Nov 7 06, 14:23)yeah, but it doesn't refer to a movement imo. not to mention that movements occur in Art and not in Design.
- neue75_bold0
they occur in both, yes generally started by a cultural look towards change or a movement in society striving for something better, we just want more stuff... and that's clearly reflected in mainstream commercial design....
- ethios0
Movements never occur in design? I think the point at which a "movement" is created, the boundaries between art and design are blurred so it is very difficult to define anyway.
All I can really think of for the 00's is the greater importance of web design, which takes heavy influences from print design.
- Witt0
i meant "movements" like an organized group of people or a school working on formal graphical or semanthic elements of the work. doesn't seem to exist a "philosophy" behind style, except style itself. not to mention that 95% of your work is dedicated to cope with technology, esp. in webdesign.
- neue75_bold0
then this era must be the Bowel Movement...
- ethios0
haha, as funny as that is I would appreciate some serious responses too.
=]
- neue75_bold0
I am/was... :|
- Witt0
lol. something's bound to come out of it no matter what.
- neue75_bold0
graphic design is more of a commodity now than a profession...
- Witt0
i hereby announce the sleeping sheep movement, which is the realism of the surrealism.
- neue75_bold0
....catering to the seen it all generation whose visual vocabulary matches their gigabytes of mp3's... nothing is special anymore.. why do you need all that music? Do you even know what you have?
- Witt0
maybe we have just done it all.
- Witt0
nice link. i don't feel alone anymore:
"I blame the culture of easy-access: Flickr, Photoshop plug-ins, skateboard culture, IM’ing, DJ mash-ups, and the failure of the slow food movement to gain any traction in the design press. Funny, yes, but I’m actually serious: many a cultural historian has tried, and will try to excavate the provenance of design work that is pictorially layered and comunicationally dense, and they should, because it’s everywhere. It’s on T-shirts at Old Navy and in classrooms at every design school I’ve visited in the last two years. It’s on packaging and in posters and pushing its way through publications and the somberist of annual reports. Some of it is breathtakingly beautiful, compelling, even entertaining. But most of it is excessive, indulgent and impossible to parse. Of course, one might argue that such density makes you slow down and look harder, experiencing deeper meaning as a result. (In this case, maybe the slow food movement has gained some traction.) On the other hand, it’s a can of worms, particularly because it’s so easy to hide behind it — and even harder, in many instances, to "get" what's really going on. Long term, that's going to present some serious obstacles for design."