15 Comments

Anyone with photoshop and apparently large rope can be an artist now and mimic concepts that are already circulating and have been on the net.
E. Manual Kant
2010-06-03 11:40:32

Boring and obvious
Paul
2010-06-03 12:00:22

@ Kant
Whats wrong with just expressing ideas/ thoughts/ feelings? Whats with all this 'calling themselves an artist', 'anyone could do it' bullsh*t? Don't get hung-up on it.

Okay its not the first time someone expressed these notions of the crushing state, but I think it captures a common sentiment that's fresh in peoples minds right now. Circulating talk on the web isn't the same as doing something real!
James Nelson
2010-06-03 12:22:05

Pointless and poorly executed. What is the meaning behind this?
Ollie Aplin
2010-06-03 13:37:48

Anyone with a keyboard can be an armchair critic these days, flippantly dismissing all and everything! :-)
Anthony Peters
2010-06-03 14:04:24

Art can be strange.

Some people like it some people don't.

What I like about it are the colours and the font. But i dislike the message.
location voiture
2010-06-03 14:13:24

Not quite sure what to make of this. The poster designs are well designed, bright and colourful, but not sure they mirror the emotion of the actual message. There's almost a comic book fictional feel to them.
Dave - Graphic Design Essex
2010-06-04 09:24:17

Love the posters, great colour pallets.
Graphic Design Manchester
2010-06-04 10:15:05

Would love to see some of E. Manual Kunt's photoshop work! The fact that anyone with Photoshop could produce similar work is irrelevant and a highly ignorant statement.
None of your business
2010-06-04 11:25:42

Entire genres and movements in art and graphic design can be defined by indiviuals expressing certain concepts and ideas through a particular style similar to and inspired by others practicing around them and before them.
Therefore is it fair to say that these works are mimics and the concepts are already circulating on the net? And does this even propose an argument for them not being strong pieces of work? As everyone has the right to thier own opinion . I wouldn't argue with Paul who suggests the posters are boring and obvious as I appriciate everyone has different taste. However I would like to say in my opinion the work here is interesting and subtle, with great use of colour, nice typefaces and beautiful compositions...
None of your business
2010-06-04 12:39:57

"We are all, say the aritsts, living constantly on the very edge of disaster. So how does that make us feel?"

I feel fine.
Ed
2010-06-04 13:03:33

@Ed
Perhaps better with an "apparently" in there - "We are all, say the aritsts, apparently living constantly on the very edge of disaster. So how does that make us feel?"
I suspect they feel OK too.
 Mark Sinclair
2010-06-04 13:26:48

What is with all the hate against this exhibit? I don't think this line of work is the best thing since sliced bread, but I do think it has a place. Speaking just for myself, I find these messages to be very effective at getting one to reflect on the era in which they belonged...
b.r.o.o.d.y.
2010-06-04 15:09:41

I am on the pro-exhibition-message camp. This is definitely something which heavily dominates my thoughts, and often wish it didn't, or perhaps wish I had a way to deal with it. And seeing the exhibition makes me realise that I'm not on my own, which in turn, makes me feel comforted. It may not take only take an artist to come up with this concept, but it certainly takes a creative thinker. I'm pretty sure that those with enquiring minds have alot more interesting conversation than Ed, Paul & Ollie Aplin. If you're going to criticise so heavily, hidden cowardly behind your computer, at least come up with suggestions you think may better.

On a more positive note, I appreciate the colours, the fonts and even the style of the posters. The retro feel almost feels like a dig at the over-used 'Keep Calm & Carry On' posters (which I once loved before their market saturation), with the message in the poster being alot more sinister. If they were dark and morbid looking, they probably wouldn't engage the same attention or carry the same message.
Victoria Archer
2010-06-10 12:10:22

Nicely presented I think and love the posters!
Alex
2010-06-10 23:40:05

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