The meaning in mediums

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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