Jul 27
‘New School’ graphics
Over the last few months (or years) our post-post-modern world has brought a couple of new design dogmas to life. As internet service inferfaces begin to get more and more spartan (see 37signals, twitter and stuff for that) Fashion, Illustration, Visuals (like Motion Graphics) and Graphic Design tend to steer into a gritty, post-nerd “Matrix”-like, 80s-revival direction of style.
Think of it as 60s, LSD infused, psychedelic, Alan Aldridge like nirvana patterns with the saturation turned to zero - then augmented with a second layer of screaming insta-glo neon colours. A focalising trend that begins to be subsumed under the label of “New School” (what was the old one again? - help me). One of its ugly siblings is the Ed Hardy swag.
To get an impression, head over to deviantArt and check out Flatau’s Collection “New School” - very good. Or see french Lense’s logo artwork. Another website in this kind of design is the Joost.com decor and a bit their 1st (and last) commercial as well. New School can be seen on many T-Shirts (1, 2, 3, 4) and on TV: for example La Roux’s video for Bulletproof which is the work of directors team The Holograms - they seem to have inhaled NS.
Magic_New_Wave by ~Flatau on deviantART
twm- nocturnal version by ~B1indy on deviantART
Sun of Nothing by ~B1indy on deviantART
