Well no, I donāt see it, not even after explanation. But for some reason other peopleās poster concepts donāt piss me off. I wonder why that is. I can certainly find enough things in the world to be angry at, after all. Could it be that this is something no one else actually cares about but Brownlee, and possibly not even him?
Everything should be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Well yes, precisely what I was thinking. Not everyone is a star wars fan.
I saw it initially as an optical illusion actually, though that might be that Iām a little tired this morning.
Even if you donāt get a highly reduced graphic it on first glance-- even if it only makes sense after an explanationāit can still be useful in, say, an icon in a GUI. Of course if it makes sense even on first glance itās even more useful and intuitive in a GUI.
Now thatās what i call an insightful minimalist post.
I tend to agree with the author, but I would say that this is really only an issue for me with posters. Minimalist designs are often welcome with something that gives it a bit of context, like a logo.
I saw a series once that was literally just a solid color fill, maybe even on boingboing, lol.
Iāve wondered why minimalism is so popular nowadays. The cynic in me wants to say that people that are more well to do want the simulacrum of simplicity without the austerity often associated with the less fortunate. Perhaps itās a rebuttal of the dense chaos, urban or otherwise, that seems to drive modern life.
Then again, maybe Iām being unfair. When I was a teenager and was first introduced to minimalist art, I had a pretty negative reaction. It just seemed like a sham. A lot of the art didnāt seem to have much intrinsic appeal - you had to be in on the conversation to be able to appreciate it. That being said, aesthetics didnāt really play into it much for me, I just rejected the art out of principle. I didnāt think it was right for anyone to gain fortune off of things that took such little effort on their part, and seemed to say so little (Iām looking at you Kleinā¦).
As an adult, Iāve tried to have a more nuanced view, but I canāt say these feelings have ever left me.
That was exactly what I saw.
The thing is, if the rounded the top ends and slightly blurred them, and perhaps even allowed a little transparency, this would have been more obvious yet still minimalistic.
I have lots of cares about this, Iām sure, but mainly this isnāt a poster for Return of the Jedi because the color of the second lightsaber is wrong. Actually, they both suck: the āredā is basically pink.
Man, I miss Brownlee. Even if I donāt agree with his opinion (not so in this case), I always find it to be an entertaining read.
Light red ā pink. Sorry, that sounded terse. I donāt mean it as a criticism, just a clarification. Pink has blue in it, light red does not. None of which negates your claimed observation, of courseā a displayās color profile can easily be calibrated such that Darthās lightsaber appears pink.
If everything was removed from that photo except Darthās lightsaber, I would definitely call it pink.
Dogbertās Brown Circle of Quality!
Not so terse, but completely inaccurate, color theory-wise. True pink has no blue in it whatsoever.
Pure Red + pure white = pink.
Red + small amount of blue + some white = colors simliar to pink but variously called names like fuscia/raspberry/orchid/magenta/mauve etc.
The way a floppy disk icon means āsaveā in a GUI despite many younger users never having used a floppy to save anything?
I wish I could agree with youā my instinct is to find common ground ābut there doesnāt seem to be a single wavelength that yields pink as most people envision it. Emphasis on that latter clause, though: the main source of discord in these types of discussions is semantics. Show someone a swatch of pure red (700 nm), tinted with white compared to some shade of blue and theyāll see that color as āpinkā. Compare that same swatch to violet-red (700 nm + 400 nm) tinted with white and theyāll identify the latter color as either āpinkā or "more pinkā. That said, my insistence three sentences ago that āpinkā cannot be defined by a single wavelength is an empirical contention, whereas the color comparison is phenomenological. Given that ā colorā is a conscious experience, Iād give the latter perspective more weight.
[Edit: This writer agrees that the empirical perspective is irrelevant, and whatās more, he seems to agree with both of us in the sense that the perception of āpinkā is contextual and therefore, under certain conditions, tinted pure red is perceived as āpinkā. And since color is a cognitive phenomenon, thatās sufficient to insist that it is pink.]
Actually, itās:
āIt can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.ā
āSimplify everything iff possibleā
It looks like the different minimalist posters are trying to achieve different things. Is a movie poster supposed to represent everything about the movie, or even adequately summarise it? According to the creator, the movie posters ārequire some knowledge of movie genre, and [are] a riddle game for movie enthusiasts.ā Itās not really about insight at all, itās about making a recognisable reference to a movie with strict limitations on design. Philographics actually include the explanation, and are copying the mid-century aesthetic while providing a helpful mnemonic/graphical representation of philosophical ideas. Film architecture extracts a certain part of the aesthetic which contributes to the movie, but is often ignored. The Bible verses one is just trying to make the Bible and Christianity look relevant. Iām not so impressed by the economic concepts either - it doesnāt seem to add any insight and John Brownleeās comment is fair here.
A similar style that seems a lot more common is kinetic typology. There are a number of good examples, but it can get pretty repetitive after a while:
