poster reinterpretations
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- dMullins0
The cool thing about all of this is that it's almost a rebirth of pushpin/Glaser style art. That, and infographics are becoming more and more prevalent as we get more and more inundated with information each day in this "social age." I don't hate any of it. More people being "inspired"—or whatever you want to call it—more exposure for the respective communities.
- quackers0
it's only annoying because you aren't doing anything more interesting
- Countryman0
I have no problem with the resurgence of old techniques and mediums, I guess my major problem is coming from the amount of individuals who just copy what they see almost directly. One or two of these minimal movie posters, sure it was neat at first and I give props to the individuals who put time and effort into the concpetualization.
However, three months afterwards it seems like there are hundreds of people posting the exact same stuff. Same colors, same minimal style, and in most cases, the same movie.
You like movies and you want to express that in poster form.....OK. Just do it in your own special way instead of ripping off someone who spend a good amount of time and effort into his own work.
- I share an office with someone who does this for all of his work (I'm not exagerating). He's super-ambitious and thinks this is an acceptable way to design.Josev
- an acceptable way to design. The problem is that it slows him down when he cant find an appropriate resource to rip off to suit a project.Josev
- to suit the project.Josev
- fxone0
lol, yep that must be it
- ideaist0
It's simply "fan art" and will not go away anytime soon...
It's much easier to play in someone else's world than to create your own...
- fxone0
yeah but... why are they all the same? one icon in the middle 2 colors and texture overkill.
creativity in 3 EZ steps?
- airey0
you grumpy miserable cunt. stop looking at them then. it's just fan art ffs. besides, how can future directors and art directors understand how to remake a remake of a film if they don't get the practice with posters at art school.
- kingsteven0
- these are interestingfxone
- keep looking, they get annoying after a couple hours.kingsteven
- na, just schlaggin'; they're gold.kingsteven
- possible the ugly faces ever.FredMcWoozy
- PIZZA0
fucking easy to make, easy to please derivative shit
calling card of the talentless
- ideaist0
People like familiarity rather than new & innovative...
They like nostalgia of film, music and pop culture of a time passed rather than striving to create a new aesthetic for today/tomorrow rather than linger on yesterday...
- fxone0
fan art by itself is cool, whatever, but why is everyone raping saul bass' style cant they just do something else? creativity = mass produced canned goods
- inteliboy0
called this a bit back and got slammed for it.
it's like HDR. online trends that gets praise and hype by the sheep... when really it's just made by talentless dorks with a ripped copy of CS4.Though whatever, most of it is student work and what not. I was doing the WORST shit when learning. Lens flares and all.
- social advantage too, more people consume user generated content (71%) than make it (58%) most of those 'designers' are just tying to get laid.kingsteven
- are just trying to get laid.kingsteven
- What is this report? Where can I get a hard copy of it?Josev
- oops, that was meant for belowJosev
- ideaist0
I think their is an issue of permanence in today's world where everything created for web (majority, i would say of design work) has no tangibility other than when it is pulled up by a customer/user in an the artificial medium of "online".
People are creating such posters (or anything they have interest in) and printing them in order to have something permanent in the world; tangibility and all, rather than continuing to make online "art" that really never sees the physical light of day...
- posters, infographics, blogs, animated gifs, PSBs, public messageboards.... oh.kingsteven
- I'm referring to the printed stuff specifically... People would rather have an unoriginal printed item...ideaist
- ...than an original, online un-tangible "website"...ideaist
- 'Millennials have an affinity for
"traditional" media, such as print publications and television'kingsteven - < from the same report i pulled the percentages from :-D we're social beings, putting this shit on facebook is a natural highkingsteven
- BaskerviIle0
It's just something people do to fill in time. To be fair I think most of them are made by design students or amateur designers.
What annoys me is not that people are designing their own film posters, but that they always seem to follow a set aesthetic and even formula. Most are not clever or good communication.
The formula seems to go:
• Take a key prop from a movie (a movie with a macguffin helps)
• draw that prop in a flat vector style
• keep colours muted and simple
• keep layout very minimal
• then roughen up the surfaces to look slightly distressedI made this is about 10 minutes to prove a point, it's shit and that's the point:
way too much monkey-see, monkey-do in design on the web these days
- Well...to be fair, most of them are MUCH better than this example.marychain
- haha, I know, I was being harsh. But you get my pointBaskerviIle
- I get it. I really do. Just had to bust balls.marychain
- I like Olly Moss's stuff because there are clever ideas in his interpretations: http://www.flickr.co…BaskerviIle
- *TARANTINOESKEMA
- yah, olly is dope!dMullins
- flashbender0
I like this game a lot more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/…
- Countryman0
I can understand one or two people who come up with the idea completely on their own, but when does it become cool or even alright so say wow I like that, so I am going to "borrow" 99% of the concept and do it myself.
We are designers we should pride ourselves or originality and our ability to conceptualize, I am tired of all the people who don't understand that or give their work a moments thought.
Its not like its an isolated incident. Every time there is a trend people just seem to result to the bare minimum amount of effort and design based upon a style rather than actually developing their own based on the project. It's lazy and unprofessional.
FUCK THAT