You don’t have to be creative to set something in Helvetica and not know what kerning is either.
(Source: buamai.com, via dailydesigner)
Typeverything.com - Good fucking advice using fucking Helvetica.
(Via nevver)
See earlier post about the gratuitous use of the word fuck to make a point.
Stormtrooper Shoes
Created by Shane Grajczyk
Wait, really? You’re going to throw a copyright symbol on objects you’ve created that are violating copyright law?
my life (by keepcalmandwanderlust)
translation: I want a lot of things and I don’t want to do anything.
If This Is Art by Maciej Ratajski
“Either the ontological status of the work of art is an empty set, or it is an infinite one; either nothing is art, or everything can be.”
-Thierry de Duve Art Was a Proper Name
Everything is art. There is still a difference between good art and bad art, though. This is no advancement here; the meaning here is not imperative.
The Avengers (Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow & Thor) by D3rtymunky
This is not so much about these posters in particular, so much as every self proclaimed “minimal ______ poster.” It is still, definitely, a little bit about these posters, though.
For minimal forms to resonate profoundly with us they have be flawless. The only formal information should be as much as necessary to communicate the subject. The rest of the impact from successful minimal posters comes from composition, color, and hierarchy. You know, design fundamentals. The success of minimal posters does not come from awful looking photoshop textures. It comes from a careful balance of information and abstraction and a particular way of subverting the viewers’ expectations (using things like reversal of negative space, or a particularly fascinating way of rendering something).
It certainly does not come from stagnant, dismal forms and centered elements. There is no thought here, just elements in a formula.
These in particular aren’t even trying for higher ground. They reek of the desire to be liked and have been fussed over just enough to ensure reblogging. And look. I kept the click through link.
Typographic Jokes by Gary Nicholson.
Brief:
To design a series of posters with typographically focused puns to lift the spirits of fellow designers.
I am so tired of seeing this. This exactly and also all of the other things like it. The core concept is this, as far as I can tell:
Hi! I’m a designer and I am really cool and look at these design pieces I made not so subtly about design. No, the jokes aren’t funny, but since my audience is other designers, perhaps they will laugh because type joke. Well, no, they aren’t designed fantastically either. No, I didn’t really experiment or push the design or concept any further than the first thing I thought of because it’s for myself and other designers and they just wouldn’t get it.
It’s like writing poetry for the New Yorker.
Clean Design.
This design isn’t clean. I suppose that’s the point? Maybe my point is that the point of this is not clear.
Why are so many (I assume) freelance designers obsessed with making design about their experience? Great design is rarely something that pays well. This is well understood by most designers. Get paid by boring projects have fun with pro bono work. But don’t spend your free time complaining about the bad work you did for money. You are not in a cubicle somewhere doing production work. Count your blessings.
There are some really great algorithms you can use to regulate justified text. I don’t think you’re using any of them.
