old school hip hop flyer appreciation
alieNDN
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i was looking at some old thread on the strut, and saw this link dropped by "lookslikesinbad"http://toledohiphop.org/images/old_school_source_code/unfortunately it was buried in a thread that a lot of people might not have checked out and only a few pics were linked from the link. reminds me of those philmost type posts, buried treasure. so check that sheit in all its glory, and although i live and die by computer art, my hat's off to those pioneers with the exactos.
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i jsut dont have the patience for that stuff! i was making a letter to send to a friend, was trying to do all the text cut and paste out of a typeface book and got lazy really fast...
does anybody know of any design/print shops in the country that still do everything the old fashioned way? theres a print shop a few towns over that looks interesting, saw some of their work and it looked reeeeally primitive, yet was for a recent event. i should go check it out..see if they have any old books they dont need or something...
NICE AS HELL.
GODDAMN.
Aaron Horkey does it the old old old fashioned way...
holy shit post more of this
You've got a point there... it looks
I dunno, I get handed flyers all the time and the ones that have really cool designs on them, like the one above, are the ones I really look at to see what they're about. Really nice design btw.
NAPPY
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. developed NAPPY (Negroes in Art) while teaching at Indiana University. Numerous nappygrams were printed and sent out to address a variety of social justice issues including: affirmative action, digital art, informatics, women's rights and the role of the artist in society. Sadly, the url where many of these pieces of mail art were exhibited, www.nappygram.org, inadvertently was allowed to expire and has now been purchased by a porn site.
I should have read this entire sentence instead of just stopping and clicking on the URL...
"Don't mistake legibility for communication." - David Carson
more Horkey mayhem...
But, I mean, damn... don't you have to be able to at least read it to see what it's about? I've been trying to decipher that joint for awhile now and I am not sure what it is saying. The Admiral? The Armada? The Armadillo? Am I even close? If you know, plaese let me know because I just can't read it.
Man, how long does it take him to do one of those??
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
WOW. i have been destroyed
this cat is up there with Rick Griffin in skillz!
(R.I.P.)
i'm saying there's more to visual communication than merely making things easy to read.
it's about conveying a feeling, creating a striking, memorable image, and connecting with your audience.
i listen to music with completely indecipherable lyrics (either they're in another language or they're screamed beyond recognition) and even though i don't know what they're saying, i know what they mean and enjoy hearing whatever it is they're saying.
this poster is "after the fact," ie: it was sold at concerts as a souvenir. fans of the arcade fire ate it up, so it must have been pretty effective in communicating something to them. maybe not "band name, venue, date, time, zzzz" but something much larger.
readability->refers to adequacy of an object to attract readers
ledgibility->adeqacy of an object to be deciphered
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think about it for a second. you could play notes in a scale sequentially and you will be very familiar with everynote but that would be boring. if you mixed them up and you're not too trained on the recognition of the notes, it may seem a bit less "ledgible" but it could be a lot more interesting. anyhow that's how i interpreted that quote.