“I am not trying to do something different, I am trying to do the same thing but in a different way”
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Vivienne Westwood
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The Photocopier and I
Do you know what this is? This is a photocopy of a print out of Anthony Burrill’s ‘Work Hard & Be Nice To People’ - it is just enlarged by +400%. Isn’t it nice how you can make something new out of literally copying ;) Oh the fun you can have a photocopier!
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Fakeware
Love this project! Designer Bea Correa is selling a range of rebranded FAKE handbags she finds on the black market. For this project she is authenticating faux products (mainly handbags) by branding them as FAKE and selling them under the brand name Fakewear. The aim is not to make a profit, but to promote discussion and raising awareness.
Source: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fashion-knock-offs-fake-branded-handbags
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Sharing is Caring →
Sharing truely is caring…
An interview with a designer who loves to share…here
(You can download his stuff and use it too…yea, I ain’t kiddin’).
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Typographic Collage
I am still thinking about collage. As I am a typography girl I started looking at typographic collages, and I found a few good ones actually. Maps using the names of places has become a fashionable thing to do (sure you’ve seen one, if not check here).
Using type as image is another way. Check out the art of Matthew Cusick, he uses maps to make images. The above image is another example where black and white type is arranged accoring to background colour. Kinda cool.
I’ll see how I can incorporate this into my project. So stay tuned!
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On Taking Ideas Further
This is a very successful “Work Hard & Be Nice To People” appropriation. It is an illustration that was done by Owen Gatley ,for the YCN HQ editorials for their Annual, 2010/11.
It is a good example of how an idea can be taken further. The artists simply ‘borrowed’ the idea in order to make an illustration of it. There is a reference to A.B.’s design by using a similar typeface and deliberate choice of ampersand as the title or description, but the text is aligned left. Without the actual words as a description the audience would probably not understand the illustration.
It’s a very nice illustration - I like it. A.B. seems to like it too.
Agreed?
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On Collage & Photomontage
I have been thinking about collage today. We all seem to love collage (if done well), whether we are designers, artists or anybody, really.
Collage is actually the sincerest form of “cutting, pasting & plundering” in the sense that you ‘borrow’ any preexisting graphic, illustration, pattern, paper or newspaper that you can find and reassemble it into something new. It is the truest method of taking something and making it your own.
That method of working seems to be fine and accepted within the arts and within design.
Or are there any boundaries?
(via cyrillics)
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Thank you http://berlingotiere.tumblr.com/ for sharing this with me!
Tumblr on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/3111854
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On Command Posters
I like this.
But I cannot help but wonder about these, what I call “command posters” and why they seem to “speak to people” (literally) in the way that they do these days? Granted, they are usually inspirational or motivational in some way, shape or form and that is always good. Additionally words (or typographic posters) are immediate, which seems to be a good way of communicating in our fast-paced world.
Back in the day motivational slogans to the public were printed on banners and posters and used as a form of political propaganda, like the Keep Calm and Carry On poster. Today however you see them coming up more often, designed and distributed by all kinds of people. I am not being critical about that in any way. I actually like them, a lot. But, I am wondering about this trend.
(Source: itsmoh)
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“Talent borrows, genius steals”
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Morrissey (Stolen from Oscar Wilde)
