17 Ways To Make Graphic Designers Cringe
These gaffes and cliches will make your designer friends flip every table in sight.
4. Medley of “attitude” fonts
6. Big Red Text on movie posters
7. The “I just learned Adobe Illustrator” look
8. The “funkiest bistro in Connecticut” look
9. Soothing corporate gradients
They don’t work on anything other than electronics ads, airline TV, and business hotel pamphlets. Putting this on a website is the easiest way to make it look like a B-rate scam site.
10. Deviant Art cybergoth circa 2002
11. Photo-manipulated selfies
Another great cliche of the early 2000s rave/EDM imagery.
14. When clients suggest this
15. And other dumb client instructions…
16. The Pen Tool in Photoshop
Yes, internet, a shameful admission: I suck at this thing.
17. This
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jodyhenjesg 3 months agoMy first boss always would say, “Why do you have all of that empty space in there? We’re paying for that room, you know! Put something in it!”
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pocketprotractor 4 months agoOh, 16 is your way of saying that the pen tool is “hard?” lol Sorry I forgot about the self-taught designers…
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pocketprotractor 4 months ago
To #16 I say, wat? The pen tool in PS is way easier to use, and you can copy/paste your paths into Illustrator, so whats the big deal? And #17, if you’re not saving your work regularly, you’re an idiot, and you deserve to lose all your work… Also, designers work mostly with InDesign and Illustrator, so…
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jillv2 4 months agoPersonally the worst thing I get it ‘Just have fun I don’t mind’. I cant handle clients who don’t have any sense of direction for what they want, it just blows my chipboard.
Also the pen tool in Photoshop is great - I use it to create Cartoon Modern and Vexel work in the styles of such artists like Mary Blair - I combine it with textured brushes and get a great look - something you cant do in Illustrator! -
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Kevin Tang 4 months ago
I’m fondly poking fun of a lot of early styles I’ve sloughed off myself — if I sound at all shrill or sanctimonious, I apologize. But yes, sometimes you rifle through your high school wardrobe and think: I wore what? Also, yes, like the ability to ride a bike, mastering the pen tool is one I’d do well to learn. Cheers-
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