Category: Art Boner
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Things Graphic Designers Will Make Fun of You for Doing
-Using large drop shadows -Designing exclusively in Helvetica -Using a JPEG for a button when you could style it in HTML5 -Not knowing what HTML5 or CSS mean -Using fake glares -Putting a picture of yourself holding up a poster on your portfolio -Calling yourself a minimalist when you’re actually using multiple textures and transparencies…
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We Talk to Elite Gymnastics for a Super Edition of END BAD DESIGN + DJ BAIT
We talked to James Brooks and Josh Clancy from Elite Gymnastics, a local group that isn’t boring/ doesn’t suck. Download their new EP set before it’s combined and released by Acephale Records here. (And all their other work, which is free.) Part One – Music talk with James Brooks How did you choose the name Elite…
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Revisiting “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen Eternal Sunshine, you’d better go watch it before reading this post. After I mentioned Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in my post about memory earlier today, I went back and watched the movie again tonight. It’s said that fiction is about what it’s not about—and sure enough, though…
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END BAD DESIGN: This Week – Mike Davis
Mike Davis, Burlesque of North America Tell us a bit about who you are and the work you do: I’m a graphic artist living in Minneapolis, MN. Along with my creative partner Wes Winship, I help run Burlesque of North America, a design and screenprinting studio. We design and print concert posters, album packaging, logos,…
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If Font Faces Were Lovers
Times-New Roman: He’s the default for every college freshman. You don’t even like him, but he’s there, you’re drunk/writing a term paper, and you’re like “whatevs dude, let’s make it quick.” It’s firm, painless, he brings like 4 condoms and keeps the lights on. You will have sex with him approximately 45 times over the…
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ARCHITECTURE BONER: The Guthrie Theater
Today, June 25, is the fifth anniversary of the public opening of the (relatively) new Guthrie Theater, a building on the downtown Minneapolis riverfront that was designed by Jean Nouvel. It’s really big and it’s really blue and it’s not beautiful—that’s not what this is about. Really transcendent buildings, like the Chrysler Building or the…
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10 Tattoos to Get While Drunk this Weekend – By Al Mueller
Al Mueller is releasing a book tonight. It looks like this: And has lines like this: That simple-minded-girl-with-a-little-of-the-ready had really started to stick in my mind, her body fits well against other bodies I recalled from a possibly imagined Hemingway book I thought I read in jail. If you live in Minneapolis, come hang out…
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END BAD DESIGN: This Week – Missy Austin
Missy Austin, designer at Zeus Jones (with me!) Tell us a bit about who you are and the work you do: I’m a recent grad of the University of Minnesota, native Wisconsinite, and I just started my first “real” job as junior designer at Zeus Jones. When I’m not busy figuring out how to be an…
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Minimalism and Me
I was not raised as a minimalist. My mom had a mild condition of hoarder syndrome, which she fueled into collecting soaps (you know, bars of soap) and romance novels by the thousands – not exaggerating. My toy collection included almost every McDonald’s Happy Meal figurine, and I was the expert on my block when…
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END BAD DESIGN: This Week – Chris Larson
Chris Larson, Aveda Tell us a little about yourself: I am a graphic designer and art director who gets a lot more done now that I live in St. Paul. Some things that inspire me right now are Oreos, superheros, Harper’s Baazar from the late 50s, Grandmaster Flash, Edward Gorey, synthesizers and Muppets (Kermit the…
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END BAD DESIGN: This week – Caroline Royce
Caroline Royce, freelancer, designer of Transmission posters and our first design partner Tell us a bit about who you are and the work you do: I’m 23, just got done with my Graphic Design degree at MCTC. I got into Design because of my boyfriend at the time who’d seen some Photoshop stuff I’d done…
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END BAD DESIGN. This week: Travis Stearns
This week’s designer : Travis Stearns, Carmichael Lynch What is your go-to font or font combination as of late? Can you provide a screenshot? I use Univers a lot. I recently saw some work by Japanese designer Harata HeiQuiti that combined Didot / Bodoni with Franklin Gothic so I’ve been into that as well. Why do…