In yesterday’s lengthy post I touched on notions of trend cycles in graphic design. And then I discovered Trend List, an amazing and overwhelming catalogue documenting current stylistic tendencies in graphic design.
At the root of what I’m thinking about, and what I assume most graphic designers think about, is how cultural/political currents become embedded into the formal structures of design, and vice versa. Maybe staring at this site for a few hours will help…
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Oh lord, I can’t wait to delve into that link. The sudden ubiquity over the past two years of (slight) variations of the above is driving me nuts! Living with a risographer who prints for other people makes me super exposed to it, and personally I find it very cold and boring (as well as overdone).
It seems to really be picking up steam in the undergraduate population too, so I guess it’s here to stay for the next while. Perhaps it’s a backlash against the hand-lettering craze of the last decade?
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