The meaning in mediums

Which honestly makes a great deal of sense if you consider graphic design and visual choices in general, as expressions of ones underlying core values. AI generated imageries tendency to appear far grander and deeper at a glance than it is on close inspection, is an apt metaphor for the way fascist governments and groups present and conduct themselves. The choice of a medium with an outsized demand on resources compared with its end result, and an end result which is a facsim

We drown in images, our rivers burst their banks and overflow with visual content. Yet just as three days without water would make the memories of past abundance meaningless, if you remove our ability to capture light we will find ourselves desperately seeking new images, unable to sustain ourselves on past supplies. It is not for want of past beauty captured or ideas enacted, rather it is because there is always something new approaching, a sunrise that's just right, a retel

That surmises far too much of the art championed in online spaces, pictures that paint a thousand words and all of them say nothing. Repeated visual punchlines about social media as pills we’re addicted to, so exhaustedly redone they’re verging on becoming meta comment on themselves. Lightroom presets and black mist filters, the controllable and purchasable Kinkade pipeline for millennials and Gen Z. The epileptic gifs and endless memetic iconography dance somewhere between W

We've all seen it happen here right? At least those of us who've been here a few years have; A "collector" buys something new, and the artwork/artist is heralded as x or y, the greatest in terms of z, their work "speaks" of the "raw" and "emotional" (the emotion never specified of course). It may not even be an abstract work, it may be some very base imagery, a reinvention of a visual pun or metaphor a 15 year old posted on tumblr in 2012 (ohhhh a pill packet with social medi

It is In fair Venice, where we lay our scene… It is 2017 and a monumental exhibition is taking place, spanning a combined space of 54000 sq/ft, at the time it would have filled an entire half of the MoMAs exhibition space single handedly if placed there. This gargantuan show is filled with promise, not least of all because it is by renowned artist Damien Hirst. Called “treasures from the wreck of the unbelievable” its plain speaking title actually hints at a show devoid of th

I know it’s a somewhat cliched phrase that; Limitation breeds innovation, but it hold a lot of water. It’s a major reason special effects in movies from before the age of accessible cgi often hold up. When you can’t just lean on a fix it in post attitude, when shots need more detailed planning because the background set is something that actually has to exist on the day, when the main monsters design actually needs to be designed before production is in full swing because it’

We've all seen this, a stunningly rendered movie monster fills the screen, that shot cuts to the next where the actor stumbles back.... and it feels at total odds with the scene in which its placed, the cables on which you suspended you disbelief snap. In all honesty I could write this post on any from a huge list of films released in the last decade, but in this instance our case study be Jurassic World: Rebirth. (Partly because I've seen it recently), pertinently due to the

You’ll see these posts from time to time, they’ll take a logo or app icon from a large brand, draw centre lines across them, then gleefully tweet about how “big company make dumb mistake lol” because the image doesn’t line up. Maybe they’ll use it as some justification as to how “the past was better”, or how real art and design are DEAD. Chances are, despite what their account says, they’ve never studied a day of design in their life. If they had they’d know the difference be

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