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BREAKING: Pitchfork redesigns, unveils new layout. Is it a design disaster?

Link: http://www.pitchfork.com

Pitchfork.com is known as 'The King of Indie Music Blog Websites' bc it emerged as an early entrant 2 the blog scene, using a high-level editorial brand 2 convince ppl to 'take it seriously' as a music recommendation service. Like most websites on the internet, it must adapt to meet the users of contemporary-wave/modern internet users. It seems to have launched an ALL NEW redesign that attempts to make it more competitive in the current internet landscape. Do u think it is a 'design success' or a 'massive design failure'?

Here is the official statement on the redesign:

The new edition features larger, clearer images, improved organization and usability, and a more readable typeface. Pitchfork.tv has been reworked, making artists and series easier to find, and its archive of music videos has been moved to the still-expanding Music Videos section. Our new Tracks section merges Forkcast and The Playlist to highlight the best and most notable new tracks as they become available. Video game culture magazine Kill Screen has been given its own dedicated section, and experimental music blog Altered Zones now has a presence on our homepage.

Twitter is A-BUZZ with this SHOCKING NEW DEVELOPMENT, and reviews are MIXED. Needless to say, some users are NOT giving the site a 10.0, nor are they giving the site 'Best New Layout Status.'

I reached out to a well-known internet HTML designer, and he issued to following analysis on the redesign:

It's by no means a compelling or game-changing redesign It's super bland, really. In many ways, the indie thoughtleaders made their site look like just about any other site on the internet. The most notable element is the blank space on the side of the page, which will surely morph into a coveted skin-based ad solution. While Gawker used their redesign to push forward the internet's ad solution model, Pitchfork's redesign symbolized confidence in their advertising sales team AND probably just meant they needed to clean up their code-base, specifically on the TV side.

To get nit-picky, the redesign features an inordinate amount of clutter. It bastardizes the finer assets of a number of better sites. The footer approach lifted from at least 30 popular websites. The partners section is also doomed. It is highly redundant to have Tracks and Best New Tracks across from each other. The new design just made their typically poor typography even bigger--their confused brand identity illustrated by excessive number of fonts. 24 pt Georgia body text? You've gotta be kidding me. The prevalence of their social media presences is necessary for most blogs, but the implementation is incredibly middle-brow. The site is a colorless, slow-loading Frankenstein. No finesse by their design team. Cool treatment on hoverstates, though.

Did Pitchfork 'nail it' on their layout?
WIll they ENGAGE new users?
Have they already 'won' indie? Can they takeover more genres?
Have they 'gone Huff Po'?
Do they look unique + well-branded, or 'just like any other crappy blog on the internet?
Will they see a decrease or increase in pageviews based on their layout?
Will they see a decrease or increase in uniques based on their layout?
Do u think they will make more $$$ based on the layout?
Will they decrease server load with the new layout?
Did they hurt or help indie by redesigning?

Do u go 2 design school/internet college majoring in HTML? What is ur analysis on the new layout?

Do u miss the old layout?

Do u miss the older layout?

Do u miss the older older layout/kewl favicon?

Do u miss the lil text layout?

Should they revert 2 the original layout 2 refocus on Authentic Music Journalism? (Schreiber, 2000, pp. 1-3)

What is the best alt blog design of all time?
How would u rate the new layout?

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Is this the worst/dumbest/lamest party flyer in the world?

bass off worst party flyer ever
A party flyer is meant to 'promote' an event, giving people a reason to be 'intrigued'/'inspired' to attend an event. Designers value the opportunity 2 create an image that will last forever, representing a moment in time where every1 celebrated, drank, and danced their a$$es off, bringing it 'effing hard.'

I just saw this party flyer for an alt event called BASS/OFF.
Do u think this is the 'worst party flyer u've ever seen in ur life'?
Or did they create a buzzworthy flyer worth talking abt?
Do u think these 2 alt dudes are trying to be more indie relevant than Nic Cage and Johnny Travolta?

Was Face/Off better than Con Air / Battlefield Earth / Broken Arrow?

Do u want to attend BASS/OFF?
R u excited about the upcoming wave of SXSW meme party flyers?
Is the graphic designer who made this 'a genius' or 'a huge lamestreamer'?
Do yall miss when movies 'kicked ass'?
Who had a better career: Cage or Travolta?
Would u rather see FACE/OFF or attend BASS/OFF?
Do yall miss the thriving electro scene of the blog house era, or is it still alive in California?

GAP pusses out on their sweet new logo bc ppl on the internet made fun of them


Recently, the popular American retailer THE GAP 'rebranded' with a sweet new Helvetica logo [link]. Basically just opened up photo shop, made a lil box, used the 'fade' tool, then wrote "Gap" in Helvetica font. Pretty chill with me. Nothing wrong with Helvetty.

Then a bunch of ppl on the internet made fun of them because it was such a 'lame' logo. Anyways, it seems like The GAP reverted to their old logo just because their new logo was a trending topic on twitter. Do u think the GAP was 'cyberbullied' into changing their logo? Should they have believed in their identity?

STATEMENT FROM MARKA HANSEN PRESIDENT OF GAP BRAND NORTH AMERICA
“Since we rolled out an updated version of our logo last week on our website, we’ve seen an outpouring of comments from customers and the online community in support of the iconic blue box logo.

“Last week, we moved to address the feedback and began exploring how we could tap into all of the passion. Ultimately, we’ve learned just how much energy there is around our brand. All roads were leading us back to the blue box, so we’ve made the decision not to use the new logo on gap.com any further.

“At Gap brand, our customers have always come first. We’ve been listening to and watching all of the comments this past week. We heard them say over and over again they are passionate about our blue box logo, and they want it back. So we’ve made the decision to do just that – we will bring it back across all channels.


Kinda unchill. Seems like they shoulda made a logo that they believed in, and stuck with it. Wish they understood that when it came to branding/user-experience, the customer isn't always right. It is the brand's responsibility to curate a modern experience for their customers.

Maybe they are just trying to 'milk the meme' or something to get more 'advertising on blogs.'
Do yall think that the Gap is 'mad lame'?

Here is the rest of the press release where they 'totally puss out' and say 'we should have consulted yall with some sort of facebook voting system or something. Sorrie, but glad yall <3 our old logo.'

“In the meantime, the website will go back to our iconic blue box logo and, for Holiday, we’ll turn our blue box red for our seasonal campaign.

“We’ve learned a lot in this process. And we are clear that we did not go about this in the right way. We recognize that we missed the opportunity to engage with the online community. This wasn’t the right project at the right time for crowd sourcing.

“There may be a time to evolve our logo, but if and when that time comes, we’ll handle it in a different way. “

Do brands take 'random ppl on the internet too seriously'?
Was the Gap Helvetica logo really 'a failure' or is it just as forgettable as the old/new Gap logo?
Should brands ever re-brand?
Should all brands consult with relevant bloggers/super users before morphing their identity so that there isn't an 'internet uproar' abt their new logo?
Is The Gap logo the ultimate 'logo failure meme'?
Should the Harvard School of Biz write a Biz Case abt the Gap logo, and how this whole fiasco has no impact on sales?

R u gonna miss the 'new, old' The Gap logo?

The Gap rebrands with Helvetica font 2 look more like Am Appy

So confused about the state of retailers in the modern world. Keep hearing rumors abt Am Appy going under, so I am not sure why The Gap would want to copy their logo, utilizing the popular font 'Helvetica' to represent their corporate brand identity. It seems like a minimal logo, just relying on 'a famous font' to carry ur brand and inspire mad sales. Does n e 1 know why so many brands use 'Helvetica' font? Is Helvetty still relevant? Does it resonate with consumers? Do u wish relevant graphic designers came up with a new, alt, authentic font? Did Jeff Helvetica 'crush it'/'kill it' when he designed Helvetty? R u more of an Arial/Cosmic Sands type of bro? Feel like the GAP might start using sexy, risque ads, or something. Part of me wonders if the future of the Am App aesthetic is headed towards The Gap aesthetic, and if The Gap is headed towards AmApp.

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Is it weird how brands evolve to try to retain customers, instead of just letting them find a new brand that sells clothes that fit their personal branding/career needs + evolving body types? Is The Gap for 'Fat People'? Is GAP unchill because they don't have a factory in America where they pay legalized workers above market wages? What is ur perception of the GAP/people who shop there/people who work there? What brands do u even like any more? Will a Helvetty logo make u <3 the Gap more than evr? Should American Apparel 'sue the fuck' out of The Gap? Should Target 'sue the fuck' out of Am Appy? Should Am Airlies 'sue the fuck' out of Target? Should [brand that has Helvetty logo] sue the eff out of [brand that has Helvetty] logo? Is Helvetica still authentic, or has it finally 'gone mainstream'? What are some new alt fonts that are chill/more authentic than Helvetica? Do u shop at The Gap? Is 'retail shopping' 4 lamestreamers?

PHOTO: Best Coast's set list--Does her handwriting look 'mad blazed'?


They say u can learn a lot abt some1 by analyzing their handwriting. You can learn about their mood, what they've been thru in life, if their parents are divorced, if they have ever killed any1, or if they are gay/straight. There are tons of stylistic tools you can use to identify more info abt a human being based on their scribble scrabble. So fascinating how communication works--really makes u think that the internet isn't helping communication after all [via typing with standardized fonts.

N e ways...
Just looked at this photograph of Best Coast's set list, and I have to assume that this was written by Bethany Cosentino, the front-woman songstress of the fuzzy buzzy band. It seems like u can try to interpret who she is as a person based on this handwriting.

OFFICIAL ANALYSIS:

She seems chill, but kinda in a hurry, like she had to go to Subway to grab a quick smart-snack before the show.  She has a desire to be 'quirky' and use zany symbols to abbreviate mp3 names.  She seems tense, like she misses WAVVES, but at the same time, there are lots of soft, fun loving curves in her handwriting that seem to symbolize that she is 'kinda lifted' on marijuana cigarettes/bong pipe hits.   She runs out of space at the end of the page, showing that she is impulsive, and often does not think ahead. She lives in the moment, her writing started off 'huge' at the top of the page, but shows that she is bad at long-lasting relationships once they get boring/stale.


What is ur analysis of Bestie's handwriting?
Does it look 'blazed'?
Can u tell a lot abt a person from their handwriting?
Does she seem 'angry and troubled' or 'aloof and happy'?
Does she seem 'angry that Carles stole her weed'?
Have u seen Best Coast live? Does she 'kill it'?

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Democratic Party redesigns logo to tap into the post-Obama ‘HOPE’ brand


After the election of Barrack Obama in 2002, beating George W. Bush III in one of the most heated elections of all time, Democrats have been trying hard 2 hold on to their liberal, left wing power. Many say that the power of graphic design is what got Barry Obama elected into the Presidency chair because he inspired Americans 2 align with his logo that was all about 'HOPE'. It seems like the Democratic Party has 'unveiled' a new logo / brand / corporate identity. They are probably trying 2 ride Obama waves or something because he is trying to get re-elected with all of the other Presidents in every other State in the Union Confederacy. Who are u gonna vote for for mayor/city councilman/senator / Supreme Court Jousteece?

Logos + graphic design play a huge part in my consumer decisions every day. Something abt the Taco Bell / Pizza Hut logo makes me go there for lunch every day.

Really trying 2 analyze their new logo / brand. It seems like their old brand was all about 'being a donkey' and also 'being an American.' Now their new logo is about 'being a chill, minimalist Democrat' who only really cares abt reading design blogs, sweet fonts, and tweeting with @ObamaBro.

It seems like the "O" surrounds the D to represent the omniscient presence of Barrack Obama in the context of the modern Democratic Party.

Do u think their logo design and corporate identity will inspire u 2 vote for them?
Did Obama 'revolutionize politics' with effective graphic design?
Will the Republicans come up with a new logo in Comic Sans?
Is Obama 'overrated' as a politician, leader, and graphic designer?
Is the Obama brand more relevant than the Democratic Party Brand?
Are 'independents' ruining life 4 Democrats?
When Obama takes our country 'down the shitter' in 2011, will we all join chill ass Tea Parties?

Pitchfork writes article abt how bands take lofi photographs to brand themselves as ‘vintage’/authentic


From what I understand, high resolution digital photography is 'mad overrated', and modern humans associate 'vintage looking photographs' with authenticity. Many buzzbands choose not to utilize a hi-res photo, and instead choose to go 'lofi' because it makes their brand look authentic before u can even stream an MP3.

Do u like bands who have album art/mp3 photos that look 'vintage'?
Is it more alt to look like ur from the past instead of from the future?
Do buzzbands need to 'give up' on trying to inspire listeners to feel like they are entering nostalgic zones?

This is basically the 'thesis' of the article. Most other sentences attempt to explain what particular album covers look like + what 'aesthetic' they achieve:

A lot of indie artists lately have felt something similar, it seems. Artists who sound about as different from each other as Vampire Weekend and the Dum Dum Girls have embraced the look and feel of old, amateur photography, often featuring images of childhood and family. Stuart McLamb of the Love Language found a great image of his mother-- literally beaming in the unintended glare of a too-hot flash at night, and thought it the perfect album cover.

Wonder if I still need to go to design school, or if I can just browse indie blogs to learn abt modern bloggable aesthetics.

Wonder if bands are going to have to stop using vintage photogs in case their 'go mainstream' and some old lady from the 1940s decides to sue them for using her polaroid.

Here is some paragraph where the writer talks about 'getting turned on' when he first saw the Contra album cover because his peen 'gets hard' 2 vintage photographs:

Last September, a photo of a girl with a blank expression and a popped collar appeared online without any context. A few people assumed it was a viral ad, but most were drawn to it for reasons they couldn't quite place. Some combination of the girl's wide-eyed, deer-in-the-headlights stare, the Polo logo on her shirt, her slightly open mouth, the pinkish tone, and muted palette of the photograph suggested it was a "found" picture, or maybe a long-forgotten entry into Andy Warhol's Polaroid series. As it happened, the photo turned out to be the cover art for Vampire Weekend's second album. A few months later, an equally evocative, slightly older, and more private seeming snapshot of a woman, caught off guard while getting something from her closet, adorned the cover of the Dum Dum Girls' first LP I Will Be. As with the Contra photo, the questions arose quickly:Why her? Who is she? Why this photo?

Do u miss the Contra 'viral marketing' era?
Sad it turned out this way [via h8ing Kirsten Kennis].
Maybe there is a 'high legal risk' associated with stealing photos from the past.

R u 'bored' when u see another lofi photograph on an album cover? Does it make u think the album is gonna 'be awesome' [via inspiring nostalgic images of youth], or do most albums with lofi art end up 'blowing'?

Album art has long been a crucial multimedia component of popular music-- often the first image we associate with the sounds, its representational role makes it inherently evocative, a symbol

Here is some other 'deep' analysis sentence:

...these photographs echo back through the past few decades of indie and DIY culture as it intersects with amateur and art-world photography, changes in technologies, and shifting ideas of public and private. The evocative quality of an image presented without context, it turns out, makes for a interesting dialogue point between indie's aesthetic past and present.

Sigh.... H8 our evolving society. Wish we could just live in our ideal vision of the future, but never forget the chill vibes of the past...
H8 how technology makes information/mp3s more accessible, but 'cheapens' moments that we once thought were meaningful.

Here is some paragraph where they drop the terms 'chillwave' and 'Animal Collective' just to get u interested.

The music Greene and a handful of others are making has been called "chillwave," an appropriate coinage for humid, groovy stoner tunes, which surf the tides of lengthy afternoons and evoke the dreamlike feeling of melting into the earth under an unforgiving sun. Greene shaped Washed Out's vibe after relocating from South Carolina, moving back in with his parents, and getting married. In other words, he's evoking through his music and album art photography the quiet domestic life of the 2009-2010 indie/DIY creative class-- think Animal Collective's "My Girls", "Bluish", and "Brothersport".


Here's some other paragraph that says 'chillwave' like 100x:

And most of all, we hang. Greene's good friend, South Carolinian chillwave exemplar Chaz Bundick records as Toro Y Moi. The cover of his EP Leave Everywhere features a photograph of Bundick fueling up at a truckstop, taken with a disposable camera by his friend Christy. A bit later, when Christy discovered her friend was using her snapshot as an album cover, she took to her blog and posted a wonderful little evocation of chillwave, not as a type of music per se, but a specific lifestyle that merges real-life obligations with the desire to stay deliriously young. "Chillwave is when you're at a South Carolina beach with friends and while wading in the ocean far, far from the shore someone asks 'we need to head back soon?' And you have work in the morning, an 8 a.m. meeting maybe, but you emulate the quiet ripple of the tide and you say 'naw, we'll make it back,' and you're right. You do make it back. And you even have time to wince for a photo your friend takes with a disposable camera at the gas station, and you're so chill you'll even put that crappy photo on the cover of your 7" record people still call 'chillwave' the very next summer, and it looks good."

Is chillwave photography 'authentic'?
Can u call some1 holding a DSLR at a relevant show a 'n00b'?


Anyways, they go on to claim that gorilla vs bear invented the lofi aesthetic, both in terms of mp3s AND jpgs. Wonder if bands feel pressured 2 use a vintage photograph to get blggd abt on a visually stunning lofi blog:

The market for, say, out of focus M.I.A. Polaroids might be smaller than that for high-end photo-pit SLR images, and for Gorilla vs. Bear's Chris Cantalini, that's sort of the point. He respects professional photogs with nice cameras, but has no desire to compete with them. He lets the camera do a lot of the work for him-- he positions his subjects in particular locales and then relies on Polaroid's notoriously fickle relationship to light and color to do the rest. As a result, the pinkish hues, white borders, and "matte sides" of indie artists revealed by instant photography have come to define his blog's visual aesthetic. It fits perfectly with the music he most prominently features on his site, as well: a sort of ahistorical lo-fi that purposefully sounds out of time.

Wonder if gorillavsbear-core is not just a 'lofi' brand of music, but also a lofi photography aesthetic. When indie music dies, wonder if GVB will be 'the most important aesthetic designer' in the entire history of indie. [link]

Might just move to the Suburbs and chill with the Arcade Fire, creating a nostalgic image with the Adobe Creative Suite.

Getting kind of bored posting all of these excerpts. Kinda one of those articles that says a bunch of 'interesting sounding statements' and ur waiting for something 'revolutionary' 2 be said, but then u realize it is just about chillwave photography, and ur just like 'oh ya. Don't rlly even care. Shoulda just read the headline' and then kept searching p4k 4 new buzzbands:


Should I go to my local thrift store to search for rare vintage cameras, or should I just download the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone? Just want my images to look all lofi.

It also makes sense that tech capitalists would figure out a way to make digital photos look just like the snapshots your mother pulls out when you come to visit. Hipstamatic-- based directly off of the legendarily cheap, and long discontinued Instamatic-- is one of the most popular apps ever created for the iPhone. For $1.99, every photo you take can look a hell of a lot like it was taken in 1978-- the faded colors, the unpredictable light patterns, even the slightly askew border. When fleeting moments of our everyday lives are now more than ever before seen as fodder for extracting, showcasing, and archiving for others-- we are all Jandek-- it makes so much sense that we'd want these moments to appear as authentic and hip as possible. Amateur photography, meet pre-distressed jeans and iMovie's grain-and-flicker filter.

S000 crazy how we live in a modern world with hi-resolution cameras, but

Anyways, I guess the theme of the article is basically 'photographs represent memories. Indie album covers are photographs that represent moments frozen in time, kinda like pictures.'

It seems only natural then, that as technologies have helped render privacy and artistic mystique ever-rarer, and at the same time made it easier than ever to make and release music, that artists would look to the synthetic nostalgia of old photographs. It's right there in the DNA of so much indie music itself, really: taking the mundane facts of everyday life and reframing them as evocative shared memories.

Do u think bands need to quit with the lofi photograph album art bullshit?
Do u just want to live a life of leisure without any modern technology, just capturing moments with vintage cameras?
Should I ask my parents for a DSLR or for a rare polaroid camera?
Is the layout of the blog ALTERED ZONES the 'crowning achievement' of the modern lofi indie design aesthetic?

Should Gorilla Vs Bear 'sue the fuck' out of Alt Zones [via Kirsten Kennis]?
Should Pitchfork just make their blog a series of scanned writings + pictures just to look 'more authentic'?
Has technology 'ruined' photography/the internet/the indie buzz scene?
Do u feel like u 'get' indie more than ever after reading this article?
Are chillwavers/gorillavsbearcorers the 'future' of indie?
Is photography 'overrated' as an art?
Should more bands make GIF album covers?
Did Anco 'transcend' the album art discussion?
What is ur favourite album cover of all time?
Was it 'vintage' or 'commissioned art'?
Should Mountain Dew make a 'vintage' can 2 appeal 2 alts [via the blogosphere]?

Coachella releases Official 2011 Lineup, Forgets to include artists on poster


Not sure what is going on with Coachella and their design team. For some reason, they released this poster today, answering the question "When Is Coachella 2011?" but not really answering the question, "Who is playing Coachella 2011?" Feeling confused. Not sure why this poster exists. Seems like those are dates on the poster, but not a huge list of buzzbands.

Super disappointed by the lack of information in this .jpg.
Maybe this is just some sort of 'private jpg' for industry insiders so they can put the dates on their Outlook calendars, or they have to 'secure this date' so no other music festivals try 2 compete with them.

It seems like a kinda lonely field depicted in the image, maybe trying to represent a lack of buzzbands in Indio, California. Probably a metaphor for the buzz drought of 2k10, and how we are just 'praying' for 2k11 to restore positive indie vibes with new, relevant albums and buzzbands. Really hope Coachella isn't in some sort of 'booking crisis', unable to book buzzbands cuz they are all demanding 2 much money. Hope Coachella will work out. Things aren't looking too good.

R u gonna go to Coachella?
Are buzz mp3s and buzzbands hard 2 find in 2k10?
Will the indiesphere 'recover' by 2k11?
Should the 'designer' who created this meme .jpg be 'fired' for leaving out tons of information?
Will Jay-Z and Beyonce 'curate' an indie stage at Coachella?
Should I make a copy of this .jpg at Kinko's and put it up as a poster on my wall?

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Miracle Whip overhauls brand identity, designs new alt logo


Miracle Whip has been trying for the past several years to 'rebrand' itself as a cool condiment that alternative people can use on their foods. Not sure if they are 'trying to replace ketchup/salsa' or something like that. It seems like they made a 'new logo' that breaks free from the limitations of font-based typography. Instead, they used an emotion-evoking scribble of mayo, similar to the way you zig zag a condiment on ur bread when you make a sandwich. It seems like this 'raw' branding decision is trying to appeal to the natural, animalistic human spirit, sorta like how humans used to have to communicate by 'cave drawing.'

I remember the days when I used to vibe out hard to this commercial, thinking about sweet rooftop parties where me and my bros would eat tons of mayo, and use it as a mixer in our 'vodka + mayo' drinks.

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I wonder if Miracle Whip is 'the new Volkswagen.' Maybe they can make a series of 'hipster bashing' commercials that get blog coverage.

It feels as if this happened yesterday, but almost a year ago, we reported on the redesign of the mayo-alternative, Miracle Whip, and its repositioning as the coolest spread in town. That deliciously retro design is now gone, in the blink of an eye, and in return we get a more gooey rendition of the name and something that resembles more what they had before the change last year. Despite the quick switcharoo, it's nice to see that they still aimed for a certain simplicity and the new packaging is as minimal as you will find on the shelves; it's actually quite striking with that big MW.


Do u think this new logo will help Miracle Whip to become as popular as Coca Cola?
Do u use Miracle Whip?
What is the most alt/authentic condiment?
Is 'ranch' for white people?

Flowchart Meme: How 2 Select the Right Font for Your Project / Life / Brand


Just saw this flow chart meme that helps designers select a font based on a set of criteria. I think this meme might be a 'hit' in the design world, but it also might be 'completely wrong', constructed by some1 who 'doesn't know a damn thing about design/typography.'

What's ur favourite font?
Do all roads lead to Helvetica?

SO YOU NEED A TYPEFACE is a project by Julian Hansen. It's an alternative way on how to choose fonts (or just be inspired) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook. The list is (very loosely) based on the Top 50 of the Top100 Best Schrieften by Font Shop.

What is the most authentic font?
Is Univers more authentic than Helvetica?
Is Arial the 'Microsoft' of fonts?
Do u h8 Times New Roman?
Is Futura the 'next big alt font'?
Should I get a Comic Sans tattoo on my face?
What criteria do u use to select a font?
Do fonts 'make or break' brands / projects / businesses?
Do u feel 'sad' when people don't value the visual representation of their brand [via font selection]?
Is this flow chart 'useful' or is it 'just another worthless internet meme'?

How many mp3s / albums / streams must an artist sell to make minimum wage?


I just saw this 'really sweet infographic' about how much artists must sell in order to make minimum wage in the United States. From what I understand, there are tons of ways for artists to make money by selling their CDs, but they usually get 'ripped off' by iTunes, label contracts, and streaming services. Not sure if it is realistic to expect 2 make money in the modern world unless you are Coldplay.

Would u rather be in a minimum wage buzzband, or just work at McDonalds for a while?

Does this infographic 'open ur eyes'?
Does it seem lucrative to be in a buzzband, or should they just get 'real desk jobs'?
Are streaming services 'bullshit' scams that don't really pay artists?
Should the American education system be converted into Infographics so that information is graphically displayed in a beautiful way that seems compelling and interesting?
Should I start a blog with fake, yet plausible infographics?

Do u know how much modern buzz bands get paid when I download their mp3s for free off the internet?