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- UPGR4Y3DD, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21So a bunch of crap and vector art flying around somebody is supposed to be good design?? That style is sooo overdone. How about doing something original? THAT is what it means to be creative.
- justinroman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9If I put swirlies around nekkid ladies, can I be a design master, too?
- stevensj2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I agree. While it certainly IS talent these artists have, their styles are also another thing they have in common.
- lafayjr, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12this crap is way too trendy and digital.
it looks like it's all by the same designer.
buried. - UGM2099, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Amazing stuff. Bad for my self esteem ;)
- tsundae, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Read a handful of the comments on the actual site. The word "master" is used as loosely as it gets. It's a display of early 2000's digital ornamental overlay which has worn out its welcome years ago. There's nothing inspiring to a real designer. There's no work with type, there's no clarity, and they certainly know how to destroy images. Good job, another crappily titled story that made Digg frontpage and a ton of non-professionals who actually believe this is really "graphic design" and these people are in anyway original.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10We get it, the graphic designers that get published these days like flowers. Floating flowers blowing in circles around their subjects. Get over it, it's lame and way overdone. No disrespect to my homosexual buds out there, but this stuff is flat out GAY. I'm not saying I can do better, though.
If my stuff starts looking like this, I'm going to buy a multi-touch screen and design everything using only my testicles. Balls is what this ***** lacks. - TroubleInMind, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's like Peter Max threw up on Beyonce. Technically excellent and stunning. But the current "fashion" does nothing for me.
- unfinite, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I think this girl is ***** her pants http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/masters-graphic-design/neildurden-2.jpg
- ekboost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4So biting Chuck Anderson and Nigel is a requirement to be a Master of Graphic Design?? C'mon now, show me some real design.
- sandeepg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wow. No wonder not many design related articles make it to the front page.
They get burned. - larsoncc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5So, everyone is skinny, doe-eyed, and balloon-lipped then, huh?
Guess us normal folks will folks will just allow our perfect, perfect cell phones pose for pictures instead.
/ugly man.
//don't care. - bovox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That's not Graphic Design. That is illustration. There is a huge difference between the two.
- j138abstract, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wow a bunch of designers copying each other. Disapointing this is coming from smashing magazine. What happened to originality
- fowleryo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4not to take away from the work that goes into those pieces... but a lot of them just look the same to me. i'm sure each gd'er featured could create something that looked just like his peer and no one would be able to tell the difference.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3People don't DRAW anymore. This stuff is as generic as Web 2.0.
- Lookie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I,along with a lot of people wouldn't think Peter Jaworowski 'Hejz' deserves to be there. He basically copied 'his' style initially from a guy called 'Silveryn' on Deviantart,about two years after it had already been started (y'know the sort,silhouettes,bright gradients,nature scenes) and he then proceeded for the next couple years to milk it for all it was worth and leave childish,pissy comments on other people art who dared to copy what he so wrongly perceived as 'his' style,briefly getting banned for it in the process.
He doesn't command much respect from a lot of people because of this and he's buried his head in the sand about it ever since. - cugar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3this current trend of using a crap load of stock and illustrator just isnt appealing and nothing stands out for me, theres a couple artists work in there that stand out, the rest arent doing anything innovative at all and its just a round robin mimic fest.
- vagarach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just hang about deviantart, you get to see all of these styles first develop from the real geniuses, then enjoy the whoring (so called) that happens, and then see it die. When people like Dolce&Gabbana decide that this is the look to use for their ads (from *last year* mind you) you know that things are winding down. Those designers will probably just shift away to another style and be just as successful, I wouldnt get too worried.
- Macuyiko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Don't forget to post pics on /b/
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2These hippies are armed.
- lagcisco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3a sweet slide show of these images is also at http://www.flektor.com/webflek/view/_1187718071_815688_44621
- 53x11, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This is all a single design style realized onto 100 different pieces. Individually most of them are fairly creative, but as a whole - it is just a bunch of artists mimicking each other. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Illustrator plugin to generate all that fractal and organic stuff. At one point in time the style of photos with a bunch of crazy ***** flying out of them was interesting, but now it has become so mainstream and popular that I don't even stop to look.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's like Peter Max got a copy of Photoshop.
- huskerdude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2So I guess restraint is terribly unfashionable this season?
- reaganomicz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1speak for yourself. I like trendy anorexic zombie photoshop looking models. please realize that this is sarcasm.
- mojaam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My thoughts exactly, I love how most of these so called critics here are telling how and what it is as general as possible as if they can do better.
- decompyler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If anyone knows what song that is playing in that slide show, I would love to know! :)
- allenhotsauce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Because i can't design these absolutely amazing pictures, and i don't know how hard it be done.I have no right to animadvert it's creative or not.
- orukabir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ripped off 'Celsojunior' as well.
- fitzsimj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Did some kind of flourish-generating plugin recently come out for Photoshop, or something?
A few of these were pretty fun to look at (and who says T&A is tacky??), but really all very similar. Props, though, since I can't even figure out how to do a drop-shadow in Photoshop. - BenedictArf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Could anyone considers this 'art'? Can it provide any function?
Thought not. I'd call it some "breathtaking" visual muzak.
I does have some tacky T&A so I guess some folk might like it. - SilentSpyder, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Agree too. This stuff is going to be old come next year. It's too played out. Flowers and a bunch of swirly vines and ***** wrapping around the main subject with some paint spatter. It's good but not original.
- sExl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Agreed that there is a lot of twirly Jugendstil-esque shiny glowy stuff in there, but there's also a few that stray from tha pack. A few good ones.
- jnashdesign, on 12/22/2008, -0/+0Do you guys really believe that Peter Jaworowski copied either of these guys? The technical skill and application alone is enough to set him into a different category all together. To say that anyone who uses silhouettes, gradients and nature is copying someone's style is rediculous.
I don't know if there's a specified graphic artists ethics book but I'm certain that it doesn't say (even in the fine print) that you can't use any of the same elements to do your work no matter how dissimilar the end result.
That's almost like saying that anyone who uses photoshop or typography to produce their pieces should credit everyone who used it before them. - cathode, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1inaccurate.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I've seen better.
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This stuff is supposed to "Spark creativity?" basically 3 styles of bombarding a photo with over"glown" stars and swirls. I am sorry. That stuff may serve a purpose here and there and may even take some skill, but "Masters Of Graphic Design?" Not by a long shot.
- Lemon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I want my 2MB back.
- lagcisco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0http://www.amazon.com/United-Nations-Future-Music-1/dp/B000083LSA/ref=sr_1_10/105-4185932-5232429?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1187739235&sr=8-10
track 5: Flying Over the City by Rithma - dortdruben, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I also agree. Not very creative ideas here. Excellent execution, but boring, overdone ideas. Plus, minus some points in my book for the all too easy "hey, lets make everyone (i.e. dudes) like my stuff by putting hot naked chicks in it" tactic. Yawn.
Most of this stuff reminds me of those lame ads Microsoft put out like 2 years ago w/ Beyonce and other musicians with multi-colored "swirls" and flowers/birds,vector shapes/etc flowing around them. - Parjoe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I'd hardly call the majority of that stuff illustration. (Most illustrators can DRAW). I'd call that stuff "decoration".
- idivine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Rippers: Start your photocopier....
- heynoop, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1rules 1 & 2, *****
- Nintendoom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0This is pretty saucy right here.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
- juanpedro, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Its not illustration either. Its just plain *****.
- BrandonSouba, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0none of these people are doing anything interesting with type or creating interesting solutions to anything. Graphic Design is supposed to have a use. David Carson, Neville Brody, and Vaughn Oliver are all notable designers that didnt get famous from wrapping some sparkly ***** around a hot model. What happens if a real company came to any of these new designers and asked for a simple thing like a business card or logo? Would they succeed? I think most of the work on their is busy. There is no hierarchy and no emphasis on any one thing. All of the work looks the same, it all looks like it came out of computer arts magazine. I used to be inspired from that magazine until I went to design school and was shown the real masters of graphic design.
- Bluntman4000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Those Artists must take alot of Acid to come up with stuff like that! LOL
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