Swiss Design
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- set0
- xpass1
- Hi jteore!set
- I lol'd.dMullins
- also, it's a lowercase d, brah.dMullins
- nice Swissing with the squares and Helv, there.,.mikotondria3
- fuck off 'brah'
your design work is pathetic as well.xpass - Not that I ever directly posted my portfolio for review, but why exactly do I care?dMullins
- Do you have some other things you'd like to discuss besides that? I'm kinda fat too, and I wear glasses. I read comics. Fuck, I suck.dMullins
- Fuck, I am lame. You though, you're a real winner.dMullins
- Also, bear in mind that I never once took a shot at jteore's work. Not once.dMullins
- that worked a treat. you did my job for me. like a good little puppet.xpass
- *yawn* Oh no, I was baited.dMullins
- scarabin0
i don't have anything against minimal approaches, i just think people need to not be lazy with it. most of it is boring, looks the same and is the product of a lazy designer. i feel like turning everything into a formula serves to remove the designer from the equation and it loses its humanity. it's dull, robotic shit. seen it a billion times.
i didn't say i'm never lazy, i didn't say i don't wear black or like helvetica. you're missing my point as much as i missed the original point of the thread. i'm not calling anyone out, not declaring myself a better designer than anyone else, didn't say a damned thing about movie posters or my own work, never said swiss design couldn't "stay".
- monospaced0
- hahabigtrickagain
- isn't that better, scarabin?monospaced
- lol @ monospaceddMullins
- hahascarabin
- oh man I love all of you guys...and jessica, I know you aren't taking this personallymonospaced
- shouldn't that be huge and in all caps?scarabin
- absolutely not
;)monospaced
- sea_sea0
- would have been better if you had just kept the thread going with Swiss Design or a related commentmonospaced
- did i ruin your day?sea_sea
- nah I'll fix it...see belowmonospaced
- bumdrizzle0
lol @ scarabin stepping in to miss the point entirely.
in 20 years do you think newsboards will be doing parodies of your creative directors posters.
- foobaz0
Best. Thread. Ever.
- dMullins0
Helvetica feels—to typography—like Japanese white rice feels to traditional Japanese cuisine. On its own it may seem pretty bland to most people. Helvetica is a great amplifier of clarity without drawing attention to its own form.
Your little tirade about hipsters, the color, and khakis is pretty inane though.
- Cankleshines0
scarabin, if you were paying attention, you might realize this thread isn't about swiss design at all...
- Cankleshines0
This coming from a guy that works in an industry where 90% of movie posters are set in Trajan. Talk about boring shit.
- i wouldn't exactly assume designing movie posters is boring. sounds fun, even if you do have to use trajan.iCanHasQBN
- i haven't used trajan in a poster in yearsscarabin
- but yeah, i'm opposed to lazy, boring design in general, not just this stuffscarabin
- yes.. but you have to fit soooo much type in such a small area at the bottom, lots of fun..vaxorcist
- iCanHasQBN0
comic sans has more personality than helvetica. much more.
- but that personality is of a twat. Say something worth saying in Helvetica.mikotondria3
- i dunno... Europeans like it?iCanHasQBN
- but really, the appeal of Helvetica is that it is structured and default-looking, making it a decent candidate foriCanHasQBN
- projects with a modernist, minimalist style.iCanHasQBN
- people have animosity toward it mainly for the fact that it's been used so much. but that shouldn't discount it's quality.iCanHasQBN
- iCanHasQBN0
scara- minimalism isn't visually pleasing to you? the decluttering and stripping down of mindless excess? personally, i like it. Brockmann's posters are like a nice piece of clean, modern architecture. it's about self-control, class, grid, & structure. it's needed as a refresh and refuge from all the overly-designed crap out there. it stays.
- just my opinion. but i can see how you wouldn't be into it - being into the goth aesthetic & all.iCanHasQBN
- i'm not into the goth aesthetic.scarabin
- whatever you wanna call it... i dont care.iCanHasQBN
- "it stays" LOL!!!!!whereRI
- whereRI0
dont you wear all black scarabin?
- bigtrickagain0
scarabin, you have taken the reins of this runaway freight train thread and steered incisively into a deep and cutting insight into life. in the end, seeing the posts of others in this thread tells us more about ourselves.