Barfers, we need to talk. About something important: reality television.
Reality TV is the newest way to make a living doing almost nothing, and you have to love that. How else would you explain the existence of this person?
Or this t-shirt?
This is the heart of the issue. What’s better than coining a catchphrase, then hawking merchandise of said catchphrase? Only saying something stupid and planning to hawk merchandise WITHOUT putting time, energy, or money into the graphic design.
Like this person: Alex McCord of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York. Alex says something stupid in the series’ latest episode. 30 seconds in, she declares fellow housewife Sonja Morgan is a THUG IN A COCKTAIL DRESS:
Luckily, Alex is a graphic designer, so her merch is ready and standing by!
LORD. It’s a who’s who of bad fonts. What kind of body fits that dress? It’s like Betty Boop with implants. Maybe we can get the thug out of the cocktail dress and into a graphic design class. Just an idea.
Don’t get all aggressive on me, I’M JUST BEING REAL.
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I agree there’s room for improvement in the first shirt, but I don’t get what’s the horrible problem with the second one.
I can see the dress, I can see the semantic reference the different fonts make, the visual pun. Does the dress have to be realistic? Isn’t abstraction the biggest element of graphic design work?
Where did you go? Haven’t seen any new posts in a couple of weeks.
Oh no, is this blog dead? Bring it back! Please?
I second StrangeRover’s comment. Where did you go?
Sorry to leave all your barfers hanging. We’re still alive, just been too busy to keep up the pace we had before. We’re scheming on ways to keep the site flowing.
You had to quit with a ridiculously annoying image of Snookie at the top of the page? I’m sick of seeing it every day. BARF!
I’m sorry our free blog we do for no money has offended you
And we haven’t quit, just no time to update right now. We’ll be back.
ALSO, learn to use an RSS reader and you won’t have to check the site so often and you’ll get an update when we are updating again.