Beauty in the Darkest of Places

There is particular type of design that has been tickling my fancy lately. I call it ugly design. Not bad design. Just ugly. Like your mum. The goal of ugly design is to appear amateurish and poor, but they succeed in what they need to do. I've noticed a boom in them as they are popular in the internet culture. It's just possible though that these basement dwellers have no artistic skills, but have some decent design sense.

 

 Smile!

Doesn’t this guy just bring a smile to your face? Doesn’t the face have a sort of cock sure look to it? If you answered yes, then it succeeds in what it was meant to do. And with the troll face, has come a flood of others

 

 Forever Alone

Rage Guy

These are hugely popular, and have become an internet fad. I think the ugly design plays to this, it allows anyone to join. You don’t have to be artistically talented, as the drawings are already ugly, but your final product will always have that same, repetitive, killer punch line.

However, before you start feeling good about your unfortunate looks, there is a limit to ugly design…. A limit that should never be crossed.

OH GOD NO!

Keep Dreaming!

So I’m sitting around thinking of something fun and exciting I can do at 2:21 am, when I remember I’m one of the lucky few people out there with a blog. So now I’m going to talk to you about this artwork

Dreamin’ about a place I’ll never see (2007) -Laith McGregor

 

My first impression when seeing this piece was that it was a very cool looking print, but the artist Laith McGregor wasn’t content with just doing that, living up to his manly- tough as nails name, he did the entire image with a ball point pen. Insanity? Probably because if we go off of the Newcastle’s art gallery description the entire artwork is about him having a freaky obsession with his own beard (though who could blame him?). 

“Similarly, beards are rarely the subject of contemporary works of art. Hirsute men however, have become McGregor’s signature.”

However, considering the name of the artwork, it’s most likely the other worldly beard that he is rockin’ IS actually another world, that he’s dreamin’ about. I will back up this bold claim by pointing out the shift in artistic styles from the self-portrait (More Realistic) to the Other World (More Stylistic).

So to Sum up my review: well drawn, humorous

A Sign of Thing to Come!

One thing we think of when thinking of a company is their logo. So I though I’d shoot through some of my personal favourites, and first of the bat happens to be
The Penguin Books logo

It’s bold, simple a dash of colour to make it more interesting then the conventional black and white logo (Though it works well black and white all the same) and it’s varying line widths give each of those line character, and it almost contorts the shape of the oval adding further interest to the logo.
-The Logo was designed by Edward Preston Young

The NFB Logo (The seeing man)

Just a Simple Bold Image, that represents multiple things. The Logo is for the National Film Board of Canada, so it only makes sense that the logo would be of an eye or a person but both? That’s design genius my friend. Once again, it’s one of those logo’s that’s clean enough to work well in black and white, though the light green gives it a more harmonic natural look.
-The Logo was designed by Georges Beaupre.

 

 

The Original Apple logo

Ack! No, not that one

Yes, in my opinion this one just work so much better than the newer cleaner apple logo, simply Because of the colours. They simply scream both the 80’s and 90’s but also represent a sort of cheesy technology. The moment I see this logo I instantly think of a computer or TV. The new logo Simply Remind me of overpriced merchandise and burettes
-The Logo was designed by Rob Janoff.

A Video to Die For!

 
Something Left, Something Taken- Full Version from Tiny Inventions on Vimeo.

“Something Left, Something Taken” by, the husband and wife team, Tiny-Inventions is more than just a long title. As you can see above what I’m writing here, it’s actually an animated film, so watch it now. It’s okay, I don’t mind waiting…

Done? Pretty fantastic wasn’t it? I liked that one bit with that guy. Anyway, what you all should have noticed was how fantastic this was visually. A few of you may have missed it, but the film was one giant assemblage. From cardboard to puppets, the Tiny-Inventors used whatever they could get their hands on. Did anyone notice the blue jelly being used for water?

The characters are made up of various elements, “fabric, rope, clay, ping pong balls, erasers and soy milk carton. Then they were photographed and assembled in After Effects.” The characters even had real hands (well, photographs)

While the mouths were animated much the same way but were made with rope and erasers

If you simple look the background and props, you’ll notice cardboard, tinfoil, felt and any other random object. All these pieces come together to create a truly unique look and style to the piece. For more information on how this film was made, go to
http://tinyinventions.com/blog/?p=317

A Clients Demand!

Hey there, this is my design blog, which is designed to talk about design related things to my peers from my Graphic Design class where we learn to design stuff.
Many of you may be asking yourselves “Golly gee, just what is Graphic Design?” Well you are in luck, as my given task of the day is to describe this very thing.

Graphic design is somewhat self-explanatory, being that the word “Graphic” is in the title. Graphic designers work with visuals, they are artists. But what truly separates a graphic designer from an ordinary artist is the client. A Graphic designer’s art is specifically tailored to what client wants. A Graphic Designers art is what makes the mundane more visually pleasing. Like art, there is no set medium for graphic designers to use, nor do they work on one specific type of job. They are flexible and need to be, based on each clients demand.