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- Anders
What do you think of the new 032c redesign?
- jaylarson0
Ugly is in?
- ********0
stretched type, do not like
- irony, sick of********
- edge, mindless pursuit of********
- [sic]neue75_bold
- irony, sick of
- Jaline0
If the black box/shape and everything within it was removed, the design would be decent.
- ********0
it's ok. picture is cleverly off balance like a new paradigma. And that is just what I don't get. I just don't get what "contemporary" means anymore... is it just newness for the sake of it? Artists just look for new ways for putting shit in a clever way?
How clever is that, it is the question?
ty.
- Llyod0
looks like it was done by a blind man
- minimalista0
DesignObserver wrote about this and the designer responded:
http://www.designobserver.com/ar…
- ********0
i guess that's a fuck-trend cover. I like the idea. But that is not the aim of artistic exploit is it. shouldn't they be worried about... wait... there's nothing left to worry about.
- horton0
shame. i'm all for discordance, can be a beautiful thing. but trying to be ugly... bunch of wankers.
- Anders0
As Mr. Meiré pointed out, the critics haven't even read the entire magazine but only seen a few screenshots online.
I'm sorry to say that I haven't read the magazine either, but I can see something strange and beautiful in it.
- _eh_0
what a load of codswallop
- ********0
I'm still waiting for someone to explain me what's the relation between graphics and words. I found those two completely different experiences and still (in my heart) I find no way of having one talking about each other. This to say that none of this (and least of all these uprising of graphical attitude from otherwise concerned people) makes any sense to me. I do not understand it in a philosophical way. I mean, what knowledge does it pass through, what does it work with, what is it's point?
Presently I think it's none, and although I appreciate new form I'm sad that that it is apparently sufficient for most of the world.
Well I don't think it's good enough. I want meaning.
- I'm not sure I made any sense, but the point was design must evolve beyond "cool" or "not cool" just because it meets your eye.********
- ... eye. It must go beyond form and became a useful language not overlapping the language that exists already...********
- became=become********
- I'm not sure I made any sense, but the point was design must evolve beyond "cool" or "not cool" just because it meets your eye.
- minimalista0
I think the type is awful. I guess I'm too much of a traditionalist when it comes to typography.
- I've only seen screenshots, maybe I shouldn't comment until I see an actual copy.minimalista
- neue75_bold0
Making design deliberately bad to garner more attention under the guise of having more stopping power is nothing new and I for one don't buy it...
What I wonder is where are all these slick, pulled-back, clean magazines that he refers to? If anything we're at a terrible state with editorial design, market saturation is at an all time high yet most publications look as though they've been put together by a recent new media graduate...
I've seen an actual copy of it and it's a load of pish.. He hasn't even taken it far enough to the realm of bad design to make it good, it just sits somewhere in between amateurish and conceptual...
At the end of the day, good magazine design should be more about the content, rather than the casing...
- totally, say what you like about carson *cough *spit, but at least there was a link between his style and the editorial stylekelpie
- joqui0
Brrr..
Ugly redesigns are hot... same storywith Identity Matters (dutch mag). The old design was quite good but now...:(
- neue75_bold0
heh, I was supposed to be working on that redesign at my previous studio, then it fell through... :(
- The im redesign you mean?joqui
- yeah..neue75_bold
- cloutier's doing it********
- Anders0
I think it's interesting that a lot of people's first reactions is that it's ugly or bad design, it reminds me of the notion that most lay people consider design as something that is made pretty.
Isn't a designer someone who should do whatever necessary to convey a feeling, reaction etc. to the viewer.. and take it all it the way?
- that's an ad designer...
but as I said, I've seen the mag, it has nothing to do with the content, it's just another layer of styling..neue75_bold - layer of styling...neue75_bold
- that's an ad designer...
- agentfour0
This stuff is all trend. It happened years ago and it will happen again years from now. Each action has a reaction. Art, design, fashion, it all comes full circle – albeit more extreme in each generation.
- uncle_helv0
Based on those screenshots, it looks pretty poor, that cover sucks, wasted opportunity.
- rabattski0
I like it. It's not a trend. Not yet but maybe a precursor of one.