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TrenDESIGN 7

You've been craving another TrenDESIGN, haven't you?

Well here it is.

TrenDESIGN 6

A new TrenDESIGN fer ya. This one starts the TD's that were created by me (the first five, as well as the original concept were created by my cool design pal B.H.), so you will notice a major lack of brilliance as well as an increase in silliness in the themes.

TrenDESIGN 5

I've been a bad poster lately. Too much freelance work. Which is obviously not a bad thing.

Your latest TrenDESIGN.....

TrenDESIGN 4

Another TrenDESIGN for all you design kittens.

TrenDESIGN 3

Terribly sorry for the lack of posts lately. Under the weather and swamped with freelance. Enjoy the latest TrenDESIGN. More posts to come soon.

TrenDESIGN 2

Another bit of TrenDESIGN fun. Yup. I will never be a cool designer. You know the type I'm talking about; the Zoolanders of the art world.

TrenDESIGN

Over at Speak Up, there's an interesting discussion going on about "Truth before Trend" in design. When does a design technique become a trend? And why do designers choose to distance themselves from these styles as soon as they are deemed trends? Are we limiting ourselves if we never use the concepts that are most popular and will inevitabley make us more money?

All good questions. From my point of view, coming into graphic design as an older student (ok, an old broad) I just couldn't connect with a lot of the "hip" styles that I saw so much of, especially on the internet. I knew they were popular, de rigueur, but they were just not me. So it delighted me to no end when I encountered a fellow designer, a partner in crime, who though much younger than myself, also could not connect with all these trendy designs.

One day out of the blue, he emailed me this delightful image. From this one idea started a conspiratorial relationship in which we emailed each other our takes on the victims of TrenDESIGN. Stay tuned in the future for more fun TrenDESIGN pokes at the graphic design industry.

Yes, trends can be very attractive, and they can make a crap load of money, but that old adage still holds true in today's visual economy: you can have too much of a good trend.