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Or the greatest bad techno cliche of them all. Computer generated spheres and other detritus, floating in the middle of the page to look vaguely futuristic. The kind of stuff that was on every bad rave CD from 2 years ago. Sam >

quoted 12 lines Here are some other clich?s that a designer must not apply to a

> > >Here are some other clich?s that a designer must not apply to a > >cover layout: > >Bass speakers, a picture of the band / group / or artists involved > >(with the exception of Mr. Aphex), the ever popular technics 1200 mkII > >turntable, the TB-303 (seen quite often in some form or another on > >those DJ mix CDs)... > > and don't forget to add KPT/Bryce-anything, T-26/Emigre and all other trendy > font houses, Japanese anime, wannabe Japanese anime, wannabe Designers > Republic, wannabe David Carson, no caps, forced justified, argh... the list > goes on.

quoted 4 lines and don't forget to add KPT/Bryce-anything, T-26/Emigre and all other >trendy=20

>and don't forget to add KPT/Bryce-anything, T-26/Emigre and all other >trendy=20 >font houses, Japanese anime, wannabe Japanese anime, wannabe >Designers=20 >Republic, wannabe David Carson, no caps, forced justified, argh... the >list=20 >goes on.

gross, anime. and i don't even like when tDR is being so obviously tDR: "oh what's this? a B-12 videogame? my mistake! it's Wipeout for playstation!" i prefer when they don't have to milk the japanese advert look for all it's worth. or whip something up in 5 seconds a-la REACT ARTCORE drum'n'bass compilations with the random cut'n'skew look. lowercase lettering still does it for me, though! tomas

At 10:39 PM -0400 5/20/99, Tomas Jirku wrote:

quoted 7 lines gross, anime.

>gross, anime. >and i don't even like when tDR is being so obviously tDR: "oh what's >this? a B-12 videogame? my mistake! it's Wipeout for playstation!" i >prefer when they don't have to milk the japanese advert look for all >it's worth. or whip something up in 5 seconds a-la REACT ARTCORE >drum'n'bass compilations with the random cut'n'skew look. >lowercase lettering still does it for me, though!

does anyone out there enjoy the work of ME Company? yeah, the guys that handle Bjork/Sugarcubes and the Shamen? i think the artwork through out each album campaign has been fantastic. the shamen wasn't that good, but they also had a good campaign no less. anyone know why Me Co stopped adding the tag "one little <some phrase>"? was there a dispute between them a tDR? well, check out yer old bjork and shamen cds (there are probably others)... example: bjork - debut "one little exchange of emotion" - venus as a boy "one little hermaphrodite" sugarcubes "one little bugger" etc