Fake Design Studio Satirizes Artists Who Value Style Over Substance
by Emerson DameronFiled under: Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Parody
From Emerson Dameron as seen on psfk.com:
Artist uses a tongue-in-cheek method to get noticed
Graphic Designer Amy West has created a brilliantly refreshing new project titled Grafik BS. The work sees a completely made-up design studio with its own fake Behance page aimed at an audience with a shallow understanding of design, or as West puts it, “those who have come to rely on the aesthetic qualities promoted by new technologies with graphic design.”
The studio”™s “˜page“™ displays posters with meaningless messages giving users the ability to comment on her phony designs thus portraying our modern obsession with trends and style whether they be good, or bad. (more…)
