Wired, Tired, Expired
Here’s my take one of my favourite Wired columns, but with an obvious design twist.
Wired • Risograph printing.
And I’m not saying this because I just got stuff printed on a Riso. It’s a fresh take on what is basically the offset printing process, where you get to let out all your spot colour frustration without burning too much cash. If you live in Melbourne, this is the guy to see. If you happen to live in smoggy old London town Ditto Press is a cool publisher who specialise in the stuff.
Tired - Graphic design style parodies.
Ironic or not, it’s kind of been done. Both really well and really ehh. It’s also a very easy thing to do. Graphic designers do what they do usually because they have a talent for detail, often to an obsessive degree. So to show off how perceptive you are is a useless exercise. You show me a better way to take a photo of a poster without a hectic wire situation going on!
Expired - Space age type treatments
These examples really aren’t that bad. I’m just having a go at brostep. Any sucker can hack a copy of photoshop and read the ‘spectacular flaming meteor’ tutorial, and create something like this which looks like it honestly should never of lived. All blending modes, no soul.
We haven’t done ‘fashion on campus’ in any issues yet, even though Melbourne Uni and Monash Clayton regularly do them. But, if we do it, we gotta do it shitloads better than them, because that’s just how things work. I want to use a 50mm lens, go out on a nice day with ming-en or scott, and start shooting! (photo vis the sartorialist)
I am an absolute sucker for this style of Graphic Design. I know that vintage illustrations, super simple vector work, overprints and letterpress kind of tactile stuff is much more “in” now but I mean when you see a whole bus covered in this stuff you’ve got to take your hat off. I’d love to do a intensive ‘shop camp so I could learn the way of the Axe. Brushes? How’s it done? This is design that hypnotizes acne faced teenagers, so that they don’t realize they’ve just forked out a weeks pay for a ‘body kit’. Wait young artist, before you make fun of it, when was the last time you sold something?
