I see what you did there. I find it ironic that they make and sell things I would use here living in the mountains, but their stores are in NYC.
Very hipā¦ Isnāt putting everything askew just an older hip design trend? Is that late 80ās?
Itās funny to laugh at āhipsterismā but the truth is that you can do a similar poster with just about any design āaesthetic.ā Thatās what makes it a cohesive aesthetic in the first place. It has rules that people follow. Logo design and graphic design in general always go through trends and phases. Part of it is what clients want, part of it is designers looking within their own ranks for inspiration, whatās the ānext big idea?ā Very few people are endless fonts of unique creativity. And weāre all taught in school that itās ok to borrow, appropriate, use, incorporate, remix, recycle, and otherwise steal ideas and concepts to suit our own needs, so things get pretty derivative pretty quickly. Clicheās develop, and then people buck the trend just for its own sake.
See if you can get the bosses to let you do a site redesign for a weekā¦
So does āhipsterā actually even mean anything anymore, or is it just an excuse for yet more nerd tribalism? God knows we need more nerd tribalism, itās certainly making the world a better place. Oh, shit, does sarcasm make me a hipster?
Also, pretty sure you donāt get to lecture anyone about authenticity when every third slide in your slideshow is a sponsor ad.
No All-Caps Trade Gothic in the Font choices? I kind of feel like if you want to go the annoying-wannabe-hipster route, that should be your first choice.
I will return later with the results of my hipster logo quest.
Iāve been thinking about making a documentary or website or something explaining what a hipster is. Iām amazed how many people donāt know what one is, and have ended up spending a kind of weird amount of time thinking about it.
Iām kind of curious what your definition is. The closest I can come is āsomeone whoās irritatingly smug and superior about their non-mainstream interests and/or has an unseemly obsession with irony,ā which is still pretty damn vague; and people have gone on to weld basically every hobby, fashion, taste, or interest you can imagine onto it.
My favorite practical definition of hipster is āsomeone who gives a shit whether something is āhipsterā or not.ā
Good laughs. Choose over 65 and using library computer on the survey. It wouldnāt allow retake the hip test. Fucking fascists.
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