What type trends have you seen recently and what do you think they mean?
I’m running Trend Jam sessions on Zoom on Monday. We’ll be chatting about the trends we’re seeing and what we think they mean.
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(Here are some trends I’ve been writing about recently).
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- SF Symphony branding Johannes Breyer (Dinamo) made tool to give type expressive gesture to movement through the notion of sound.https://youtu.be/jFbxSQOfpwQ?list=PL6u7uE3xgopXCiCCmHbvIT3ZHpEg3Zl3J&t=1787
- @Luke Freeman Hi Luke, thank you for this, there’s also a really great article by Toshi Omagari called “Ink traps and pals”. I wrote about ink traps earlier in the year as I think they communicate different things depending on the context/sector they appear in. I was curious to know whether @Helen Swarbrick has seen them in settings that I haven’t come across yet.
- @Helen Swarbrick @Sarah Hyndman known as ink traps to stop the ink from spreading when in print (Matthew Carter ink traps) --- they have just become used as a more stylised use than function although some designers have used them in more conceptual ways.Hubuhttps://www.behance.net/gallery/90746063/Hubu-Brand-Identity
- @Geoffrey Bunting Sometimes it’s just handwriting using a computer. I’ve talked to lots of people over the years and many of the script fonts get used when people aren’t trying to be graphic designers. They just want to write something but keyboards have replaced pens.
- Script fonts everywhere.Which means that a lot of people who have no idea what they’re doing are pretending to be designers.
- @Coby Brady-Potter Such great examples!
- @Sarah Hyndman Love these: https://www.instagram.com/p/CUu6yMgobmn/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CT6lB6QgGYH/
- @John Gorenfeld Hi John, where do you think we were seeing peak didone pre-Covid?
- Kinda feels like the didone trend peaked in the pre-COVID world and that typefaces are going to be moving past that.
- @Sarah Hyndman I think in print and magazine design at the moment. Lots on social media posts and info posts.
- @Coby Brady-Potter Love this idea of future retro. Do you have any links to ig posts to hand for us to see?
- @Helen Swarbrick Yes I agree and that’s a really good description. What kind of products/sectors have you noticed it in?
- I’ve seen a lot of chrome type on ig lately. Speaks of 90s fashion influences mixed with a futuristic feel. I personally love it!
- The font used in the "human" image has become so popular, I think it's a way people are trying to get some character back into the helvetica-dominated visual culture. Keeping it clean and minimal aims for universality but the little cuts into letterforms are bringing some edge and new life into it.
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