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Can't even have an paper menu (reddthat.com)
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qr first opens intagram which I don't have the app or an account then in the bio there's a link for menu. We are living in the future

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[–] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm starting to realize how little people know about making art, and how little they think about the art and graphic design they see in the world.

Like even just looking at cereal boxes I think about how artists on the corporate payroll designed the layout and placed all the elements and I wonder if they started from a flat image and projected it onto a box or if they imagined the box first in their imagination and then thought about how it would be viewed from different angles, especially with regard to shelving...

Anyway I happen to know 3 designers, 2 of whom still work for corpo clients. I'm not a fan of their clients usually, but it's made me realize that there are real people making real artistic decisions behind almost everything you see. Well, at least there used to be. There's a bit less of that now thanks to the latest thing.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Tech bros successfully spawn something infinitely worse than Alegria.

    I’m starting to realize how little people know about making art, and how little they think about the art and graphic design they see in the world.

    I am oblivious to how normal people react to these sort of stuff, or why business owner decided to use slop. Are they so disconnected that they know no one who can do basic design?

    It could be that they want "professional" looking art for cheap free and treated the artists so badly for so long and this kind of situation is the result. If normal people don't care that businesses are using slop then they have even fewer reasons to care. It's starting to feel like "the person doing this job don't deserve to get paid" line of thinking. The Rube Goldberg machine of consequences are so long they probably feel this is completely acceptable thing to do.

    I want to see how design/illustration field emerge from the ash once all this shit collapsed, if we're still alive.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've been through a few branding/packaging exercises in corporate life (I'm an accountant, not an artist at all). My experience was that the branding can be artistic, but then marketers get ahold of it and shove the artwork into preconceived notions of optimizing shelf appearance and drawing the customer's eye. So there's genuine artistry in it but it's distorted by corporate pragmatism.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yeah that sounds familiar to me as a software dev. My field has been almost totally captured and financialized for years now, so that the stuff the enunciates the roaring of the demon engine capital is the only sound you hear at the end of our sprints, or waterfalls before that.

    Most of us working in the corporate world only have very limited spaces to express ourselves, let alone express anything subversive.

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