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This is the official second Editorial from the lifestyle magazine I am developing. This piece is called ‘Guilty Pleasures’ It is basically a love letter to my vice-kitsch, tacky, low-fi design.
This is the official second Editorial from the lifestyle magazine I am developing. This piece is called ‘Guilty Pleasures’ It is basically a love letter to my vice-kitsch, tacky, low-fi design.
This spread was a LOT of fun to develop. Based on an idea that had been kicking around my head for the better part of a year. I have been wondering, just how far can you push the rules of ‘good’ graphic design? Is there a point of no return? What would the worlds worst design actually look like?
At first, I was trying to break all the rules, as an example of ‘how not to design’ but the further in this saccharine comic sans nightmare, the more I started to see a strange gaudy allure that I just couldn’t help but exploit to breaking point.
So first off, let me apoligise to the designer tutors/mentors that have taught me, you might want to look away now. Bcuz its going to be a bumpy ride ahead. This is what 2 years of design school looks like (:
Everyone else just follow me.
These typographic illustrations were roughly ripped from the headlines of various magazines. I love the sensationalism/rampant sexism/ guilt lead self improvement feel from them, I knew one day I would be doing something subversive with magizine covers.
They send out a barrage of mixed messages, exhausting the consumer into a state of blind conformity.
They send out a barrage of mixed messages, exhausting the consumer into a state of blind conformity.
You may not have liked this project, maybe you felt it was too far, too ugly, or thought I had finally cracked. Well, thats just like... your opinion man. I had a lot of fun making this, I feel ive learnt some cool stuff on the way. And i finally got to put that idea of SO BAD ITS GOOD design to rest.
At the end of the day, this project was about trying to catch a feeling, rather than communicate an idea. I was trying to capture the zeitgeist of my generation (millennial) I felt the best way of doing so would be to try and capture the ‘quick fix, low key, meme laden, hyper-stimulated, ironic, nostalgic’ feeling of a generation raised on the Internet.
The beautiful savage nature of youth is a curse. You only truly appreciate it once its gone.