The iPad is Killing Jobs or Idiocy is Hereditary

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20 Apr 2011, 04:15 PM
Yoshi

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I'm not being like some of you and saying "HERP DURP, SHIT CHANGES MOTHER FUCKER"

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1303326903
20 Apr 2011, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

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If I'm sending out a direct mail piece your logo can ONLY be printed in black (and some other print processes, too). When I say black I mean black, too. No shades of grey. So everything is flattened to one level. In the case of the FIFA Women's Under 17 logo everything is not clearly defined enough. The silhouettes of the ladies running would meld together. Any visual effects like gradients and whatnot would be unable to play in that realm.

Good logos only represent one or two attributes of the company. They're just too complicated overall. Also what is he doing with that budget logo? It looks like he just scrunched the 2003/2004 font horizontally in that space. Letting the typography and letterforms breath and display on their own is one of the quickest and most effective ways to make a good design great. Because he scrunched the font it automatically tells me he has little to no appreciation for typography. His AGAPE apple logo is probably technically the best because it can be printed in something fancy (like gold foil) and you still keep the shape. Creatively, though, it still sucks.

Also with so many effects it would be hard to reproduce those logos at large sizes. Like for South Koast Caribbean why didn't he draw out the islands? It would have been a simple trace job in illustrator to get those lines clean. He didn't. Either he doesn't know how (and just uses photoshop for everything) or he's lazy.

Not everyone acknowledges/understands that simple is better. They want a logo that's "badass" and "very creative" with lots of colours and gradients etc. I'm a wannabe, and even I know this is bullshit.
20 Apr 2011, 05:01 PM
Diff-chan

Where's Biff to teach us all what's really going on.
20 Apr 2011, 05:13 PM
Fe 26

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1303326903

I know you're trying to be clever...

but you do realize that empathy and sympathy are higher brain functions that developed as a result intelligence and our ability to think abstractly, right?

That is is because we are highly evolved as a thinking animal that we are able to have those feelings.
20 Apr 2011, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Where's Biff to teach us all what's really going on.

He's busy closing a deal.
20 Apr 2011, 05:15 PM
Fe 26

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Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

Not everyone acknowledges/understands that simple is better. They want a logo that's "badass" and "very creative" with lots of colours and gradients etc. I'm a wannabe, and even I know this is bullshit.

I've had this problem with designers that have been in the business for years. It is really maddening to pay someone 40 an hour or 100 per design and them not get this. Like herding freaking cats.
20 Apr 2011, 05:22 PM
Drewbacca

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Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

Not everyone acknowledges/understands that simple is better. They want a logo that's "badass" and "very creative" with lots of colours and gradients etc. I'm a wannabe, and even I know this is bullshit.

Then they are wrong and probably have no money. Your logo is a visual identifier of your business. If you come up with a logo like that you are telling the market you're an unprofessional mess.

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That blog better be the best designed motherfucker in the history of motherfuckers, or you're gonna get double-dicked.

It's very good so far. Simplicity is our friend in this case. Our logo is just a big X.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Don't pull that on me. You as a businessman know better than anyone that context matters more than reality. Business, law, politics, are all context. You can say that abortion should be legal and give lots of facts about how it helps society, but at the end of the day, laws about it pass depending on how law makers perceive the situation. Not the reality of it.

So silly. I'm not arguing with you anymore. I cannot stop and explain to you why passing a piece of legislation is different then someone actually having to collect physical money to pay their bills.
20 Apr 2011, 05:24 PM
Yoshi

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I know you're trying to be clever...

but you do realize that empathy and sympathy are higher brain functions that developed as a result intelligence and our ability to think abstractly, right?

That is is because we are highly evolved as a thinking animal that we are able to have those feelings.

It's also why we have guns.
20 Apr 2011, 05:49 PM
Space Pirate Roberts

Did... did I really just see a black person advocating social Darwinism? Wow, just... wow. There's ignorance, and then there's that.
20 Apr 2011, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

I'm actually starting a blog next month about design. I'm going to be posting shit like this (with his contact info removed) for everyone to make fun of. Dastardly, I know. But every designer does it (also other stuff like new logos, designer problems, failed campaigns and other stuff -- not just solely making fun of crummy design work).

You mean this?

Or like this?

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