this video just further proved that design is EVERYWHERE and i love how passionate you are about all of these. i’m going to start studying graphic design soon and this gave me so much inspiration!
I’m a full time designer and my workplace is so sterile and uninspired. It’s refreshing to see people who have fun with graphic design and don’t take it too seriously. I’m a firm believer that you’re limiting your design solutions when you don’t get outside the box and have a little fun.
bro I've found your channel yesterday, and I've been loving your content. it's so very relaxing and enjoyable, and as someone that wants to be a designer, seeing your love for the art is just so great, it's like I found another one of me lmao. keep it up you got a great personality :)
I am an aspiring entomologist, so in my world type specimen means the specimen that was used to describe a new species, the definitional specimen. I am so happy that type specimen is used in the design world for like a definitional collection of how to use type. It feels like the funniest word play to me :)
My work is very dull and sterile, I love seeing designers and artists talk about their work because it's a great escape for me, and I live this positivity! So mang videos are so negative and talk about how much they hate certain designs, but this is such a beautiful display of passion! It brightens my day!
Been following your work since the dribbble days and just found out you're doing youtube, and let me say: you're killing with the content, the perfect mix between the culture dump, niche stuff and the popular content trends.
The New Yorker Tote bags kinda pay for themselves through self advertising. They act as walking billboards because people love to just throw anything into a tote bag and taking it out.
Super with you on the NBA social designs. So much content, yet so much quality. And, yea, sports in general has always felt top of the heap, in its own way.
love of primary colours unite!!!! ❤💛💙 just found you today and it's so cool to see a sydney based graphic designer! I'm aspiring to be one myself which is exciting :)
Loved this video man, feels like alot of these styles get very expressionist?? Covid did a number on all of us lol. Would love to see more of these funky micro-movements.
A 'pixelized' non-vector is called a raster. I'm a pro experience and interface designer. My daily work adheres to a design system. So it's always nice to take a peek at unique styles. I like your title cards and the citrine touches throughout your office space.
hey elliot!!! thank you for this video! it was very inspiring to see others works and how they exist in different medias, especially from your perspective! I love your videos, hope you get out of this block because i've been there and its not easy! never got the chance to actually do a design chef (because of work and university), but they are veryyyyy interesting to watch and i think that more merch design chef (like the water bottle one) would be really fun! also really enjoyed your last couch video (the design process one) because it's nice to see more like projectual and creative thoughts like that! thanks for doing videos here, they're really nice!! :]
I enjoyed the crap out of this video. You make me smile when I'm tired and uninspired. There's a very limited number of people out there equipped with the ability to do that, so that's something. Really happy I stumbled upon your channel 🫂
The blue grouper at out of the blue is probably a reference to Billy the blue grouper who has lived at Clovelly for many years and is beloved by snorkellers
Thank for that video! I got lots of inspiration and also you made me think about what are design styles I'm passionate. Cool to think outside of your niche.
This is a really fun video concept and I learned about some things and artists I didn't know about but I am enamored with your bookshelf in the shot. Where'd you get it?
@@welliot I thought so!! They sadly don't offer Koala in the US as far as I'm aware. I've been in love with their stuff since I first saw their bedframe.
Duuuude that's summer hill fish and chip shop! I used to go there everyday after school and get the most enmourmous serving of chippies for 2 bucks. I love that they've had rennos but have kept that classic sign.
1:28 Australian fish and chip shop branding 2:55 Bersletter-fication 4:30 Vintage animal lamps 5:24 Looney Tunes vibes 6:56 Casetify featured artists 8:56 NBA teams social media 11:08 Those 3D billboards at Times Square 11:46 New Yorker tote bags 12:47 Nalgene water bottles 14:05 Type specimens 14:57 Theatre season design 16:14 Office privacy 17:05 Honourable mentions
Loved the video! I didn't even notice that there were more than 7 until near the very end, lol. (Also, since you liked the bus mascot you may want to look into "yuru-chara" (japanese mascots), they make them for absolutely everything and the designs tend to be quite bold and colorful)
Personal niche design style obsession if mine is these decal stickers I sometimes see on dry cleaners, tailors, and nail salons that look like they're from the 60's-70's. I have no fucking clue what the art style is but I adore it.
Just got recommended your videos for the first time ever (like I have it in another tab running as I type this), and I went to your channel to see if the rest of your content is graphic design, and this video said it "posted 1 minute ago." This feels like fate lol, loving the content already :)
I also like NBA graphics, go check the Toronto Raptors, they collaborate of course with Drake's OVO brand and it all revolves around that style many times
i really vibe with the fish and chip aesthetic. i'm not a designer and all but to me it seems to be prevalent in a lot of like maybe 70s to 90s design in cheaper restaurants, cafes and such, as well as on products and magazines, posters, labels and things made at that time. there's a lot of black, white, primary colours and evergreen. and recently it's coming back. primary blue and white has been really all over (see: the band the 1975's rebranding). i currently live in South Korea and it's really popular here, alongside this kind of cheap and 'crappy' retro design style, they call it 'newtro' here. new retro. see also: the bottle for an energy drink called pocari sweat that hasn't changed in decades and its kind of cool again. alongside that there's a lot of stylized and sophisticated reinterpretations of retro too. so interesting!
Hey Elliot! I just recently found your channel and have been really enjoying your work both here and on Instagram :) Your video got me thinking about other niche design styles that I'd seen in my life and I realized how much I enjoyed seeing how ski trail maps are presented. Something about the consistent trail ratings (green circle, blue square, black diamond) always being present across totally different maps strikes me as interesting, and I like guessing at the designers choices for the sidebar, font and legend. Do the fonts follow the trails, or are they perpendicular? Are there clouds in the sky? Did they plop a bunch of minimal vector trees everywhere or is it more realistic? I think a lot of decisions are based on legibility, but I bet there's a ton of aesthetic choices to be made as well. Anyways I'm rambling but thanks for the food for thought! Great video
I really enjoy when my favorite creators just do talk videos! Because even though I really love the work that they do, I also just enjoy their personality. And sometimes I don’t have full brain power to fully focus on something they’re making but I still wanna watch a video from them because I like them as a person but this allows me to do so more passively lol so these are perfect to me!!
Type Specimens x100000 I love them, they are done to catch attention, with care, by people who literally know the type the best. They're a great source of inspiration.
wow, these are all great! I really enjoy your humor, the pacing at which topics are spoken about, and most of all, niche things for me to think about and how my Special Interests inform the niche design styles i'm into right now. It's nice to have fun with graphic design, and to see graphic designers as humans with depth. Great video
just OBSERVING things i guess?! nowhere really in particular... instagram design community is a good start though i reckon! my saved tab is dense. follow one person and then go on a "suggested accounts" binge and you'll find a bunch of new accounts!
Oh god 6:30 is a kind of 1980s fever dream for those of us that old to remember. The character is called "Noseybonk" and not too surprisingly was from a kids show, in the UK.
loved the vibe of this video so when you mentioned you had a casetify collection i had to go check it out. couldn't believe when i saw the one phone case ive been obsessing over for the last year or so was yours
I'm a little sad that some "styles" are presented completely deconnected from history, a style or movement is never one person. For instance when you talk about "bersletter" it's obvious the paternity goes back to post modernism and even Saul Bass as a designer, paper cut-outs used for design, that may even stem from Matisse's own paper cut out pieces. I'm not saying it out of disdain, but thinking about somebody that comes across your video, loves a style in particular but can't research it beyond the particular person you pointed out. I know this is comedy still, maybe it's out of place to say that. With "looney tunes" Braulio amado immediately comes to mind, but also all the people using air brush or simulating it like Alexis Jamet. In the use of the cartoon shapes I personnaly love Stefanie Leinhos and éditions matières, a publisher focusing on experimental and abstract comic books. I don't know if just a bit more depth would still fit into your format, but I'd personnally love that
nice stuff elliot. been following you for some years now, but you didn't come up in my ig feed for some time now, and came back to see you doing videos. cool stuff, never stop.
I have one of the toucan lamps. keep an eye on ebay (or whatever you guys prefer in Australia?) I got mine for 50 usd and just waited a few months for the listing to come up. patience is key with vintage stuff, especially bauhaus type mcm stuff (hot hot hot)
I was envisioning my own local fish and chip shop when he was describing them and the shock I got when he put my local fish and chip shop on the video was crazy. Ig we live near each other lol
Designers talk about "styles" as if they're not aethetic signifiers that belonged to a place, a time, and a group of people. Reducing this to a photoshop tool or a type of font is just a quick way to make lukewarm gentrifying work.
