design crit thread
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- neue75_bold0
I hate all caps and surely they could've made the rag flow a little nicer...
- ********0
what do you think of the right, bottom align?
- D_Dot0
I like the last piece you posted (even with the Trajan). I'd like to see the contents of the book more though. I suppose the cover worked on me then...
- ********0
repost from yesterday
- I want my money's worth********
- "not a fan of white vinyl"neue75_bold
- hahaha, I couldn't type that with a straight face..neue75_bold
- pretend its not vinyl********
- I fell for it********
- let's just say that there's a strong chance it would stand out on the shelves..neue75_bold
- "I want to be able to read it from across the room"********
- love this.zenmasterfoo
- Love it - white vinyl is the best.nosaj
- I want my money's worth
- ********0
looks like this has already worn out its welcome...
- kelpie0
did better than my Buddhist baiting in the pope thread...
- neue75_bold0
- I do too. do you really?********
- very much so...neue75_bold
- very nice.zenmasterfoo
- the juxtaposition of corporate modernism with vintagey********
- the right alignment of the big numbers looks a little odd********
- I do too. do you really?
- ********0
It's funny, I started design with a very 'cosmetic' approach, I was into making cool stuff and playing around with letters and image and as long as it looked 'cool' that was fine by me. I did some very cool things. Before they even had been invented as cool. Cool I was.
Nowadays I realy want to know a little about the brief or the problem in hand, I find it odd to comment on whether "I like" something when given no context, and it's rare to see anyone on QBN question that, they can offer logo crit without even knowing what the logo is for which strikes me as ridiculous.
I think I would like to start doing some collage or something just to get back into the realm of the cosmetic and leave the worrying about ticking checkboxes to the 'work'. It does surprise me how naïve many designers seem to be as to what it is they are producing, they just... make pictures.
- knowing that we know little about the problem in hand, I still enjoy the formal elements********
- I need to balance myself and get back into the cosmetic, is what I'm saying. I think.********
- Some need to balance themselves the other way.********
- your point is like a fine wine********
- knowing that we know little about the problem in hand, I still enjoy the formal elements
- ********0
I had an ad campaign put on Ads of the World a month or two ago and it got absolutely torn apart by people on there, and yet it was glaringly obvious that they hadn't considered the actual 'problem' or solution at all, it was just that they didn't like it, or it wasn't 'clever' or 'cool' enough for them.
- what, you didn't put any slanted lines in it?********
- yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes - this really frustrates me in crit threads on herekelpie
- you could have at least overlayed a smaller page within the larger one********
- If only I could have hired that trendy illustrator girl who does the triangles, that would have kept them happy.********
- Ads of the World is filled with the most obnoxious, arrogant twats. In short, "ad people."********
- what, you didn't put any slanted lines in it?
- kelpie0
^translation:
do you like black and white, and didot, and lots of type?
- neue75_bold0
I will always be a sucker for the straight-forward simplicity of things like this —
- don;t take this the wrong way, but I can tellkelpie
- (ie, its quite you)kelpie
- hahahaha, you reckon?neue75_bold
- <jaline type postskelpie
- I like it, but question the modish use of display serif and underlining********
- unless this actually old********
- in other words, employs "fashionable" elements possibly at odds with its utilitarian pretense********
- I think its oldkelpie
- nup, it's only 2-3 years old..neue75_bold
- I withdraw my statement********
- I reassert my statement********
- strip mining the recent past for a frisson on nostalgia********
- of********
- Grouch was big in the summer of 07...neue75_bold
- we were all young and influential, not too mention what a long hot summer it had been...neue75_bold
- hmm, looks old - I kind of like it less too, but still like it a good bitkelpie
- exactly.********
- a few more years and it will go back to its rightful place in the bin with copperplate and remedy********
- I have this one...to bad the paper choice is horrible...tank02
- ********0
- neue75_bold0
also love this —
- considered haphazard..neue75_bold
- is that a single piece?********
- it's a book cover...neue75_bold
- looks bad to megramme
- kelpie0
- too self conscious?kelpie
- wood, porcelain, old typefaces.. and it still looks kind of cheap and tacky. Maybe it's better in the flesh.********
- do not like********
- surprised there isn't straw packing inside. Maybe there is.********
- hahaha, yup; I hate it too. post your whiskey one from yesterday again, that was lovelykelpie
- kelpie0
I quite like this
- kelpie0
so is this dead then? shall I resurrect weird sex thing?
- I'll be back soon--I haven't done any work yet and it's 10:45********
- I'll be back soon--I haven't done any work yet and it's 10:45
- neue75_bold0
I've got some jerk to screw...
- neue75_bold0
"It's just nice to see something different sometimes"
— The Loud Majority
