Worst Design Trends 2010
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- Miesfan0
To begin a thread and then leave & didn't report back.
Like xcarlx or mojo, btw.
- Orbit0
I'd like to see the end of letterpress being fetishized ad nauseum by a zillion designers who've got hold of a press and declared they're 'setting up a print shop supplying artisan print work'.
1. If you are doing this, please stop using card stock that's like sheets of marshmallow and creating 2mm deep bite into it. Its really quite the opposite of what the genuine letterpress printer aims to do. Bite is actually bad. Bite is quite different from embossing or debossing. If you want to emboss or deboss, do it properly, not by fucking your metal like toddlers with Fisher Price toys.
2. Stop using stop using card stock that's like sheets of marshmallow. If you want to show how talented you are, do letterpress on bible parchment without biting through so it falls apart and without gluing the stock to the master with the ink.
Proper letterpress requires skill and knowledge. Stop fetishising it badly for the sake of last year's trend. Its tired already, and that's a tragedy, because it shouldn't be 'trended' into obsolescence, it should be respected, and learned, and kept alive through faithful adherence to the craft.
Fuck all you 'small traditional craft print shop' wannabee cockwobblers.
- Jacque0
Takes on "Keep Calm and Carry On"
- Brownjohn0
stuff featured on sites like this
- horton0
kids with total % of body tattoo coverage greater than their age.
- Handel0
*dripping blood
*the phrase "call or click"
- i_monk0
Don't you hate pants?
- instrmntl0
Everything 3D, although I'm going to shoot some 3D shit tomorrow.
- Brownjohn0
this blank packing tape sponsored by___
- eighteen0
I'm so sick of waffles
- Brownjohn0
what horton said
- instrmntl0
I think it's an overall encompassing to know as much as you can about anything instead of keeping your focus pinpointed and sharp. Social media is a huge reason why. 2011 I'm ending my FB and goin to lurk hard, stay focused and do my own shit.
- scarabin0
and it really creeps me out when i want to comment on a site and it makes me login using my gmail or facebook passwords.
fuck you site, that's creepy
- instrmntl0
Theres definitely a grey area. I try to share stuff that I think people can benefit from. Howe Er, there are times when links are postedto soley be in the know first, and I'm def guilty of this from time to time.
- scarabin0
i don't want to see anything with
• lego
• star wars
• zombies
- Agreed. It's amazing how engrained Star Wars is. I was thinking abt this a few weeks ago. I bet every TV show current andinstrmntl
- Curraghs and recent has had a Star wars reference at one point. It's weird to think about.instrmntl
- Oops current. Damn these fat fingers!instrmntl
- Vampires...you missed that one.odinie