graphic design taboos
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- gramme0
putting all type everwhere in frickin "generic form" style ruled boxes. 1999 is over already. Hang that shit up.
- gramme0
Roughly 3/4 of all work I did before 2006.
Don't look at my website. It's a bucket o' bollox.
- ********0
upwards reflection.
- gramme0
White borders on pages that are either too wide or too narrow.
- kelpie0
anything gramme has ever done or said
- kelpie0
designers who's only knowledge of type stretches to sans serif faces, to the extent that they will use Georgia for any print job where they are required to use serifs.
This is a personal gut wrenching bug bear of mine, one I have to deal with almost daily.
- kelpie0
the above is made far worse by the fact that 99% of my work these days is on the web and I am limited to using around 4 fonts out of my 2000+
- jaylarson0
faux oblique type instead of using italics
not cleaning tightening up boxes to their content (dirty layouts)
- gramme0
illegible, super-fat typefaces that look like building blocks.
- peterorpete0
istock
- gramme0
Stock – period, be it photo or illustration or video – is in my opinion an incredibly evil foistance upon the world. 'Tis often a necessary evil, though. Forsooth!
- ********0
photoshopped beavers
- traut0
i have a problem working on peoples photoshop files when they dont organize there layers and use folders etc.
- gramme0
SETTING TYPE IN PHOTOSHOP.
- gramme0
Trajan being used for one more movie title.
I swear...
- typecorp0
auto leading
- utopian0
blog style portfolios, comic sans, arial, web 2.0, apple style 3D drop shadow effect
- sikma0
linking your page to your facebook profile
- gramme0
I think I covered a number of other no-nos in the Rant thread.