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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:45 pm
by alan
why does neally every dubstep record have terrible terrible font design, if you're to lazy to do artwork at least think about a good font. or is that just me
and genrally dubstep flyers are also disgusting.

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:57 pm
by andythetwig
because pro design costs money, and there's no money in dubstep yet. Watch for the Mu releases, they'll have a budget for that sort of thing I reckon.

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:13 pm
by alan
andythetwig wrote:because pro design costs money, and there's no money in dubstep yet. Watch for the Mu releases, they'll have a budget for that sort of thing I reckon.
:u:

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:17 pm
by dubmugga
so alan...

post up a choice dubstep flyer and a disgusting one also but really it's all subjective and what do you think of this ???

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http://s10.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/3bbb32c3ffa1be10/
disgustingly over fonted... eh ???

I think there's about 30 of em in there :roll:

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:30 pm
by alan
i havn't seen any nice dubstep flyers,
that example is better then most, bit messy tho and it looks like to sepperate piece's of design stuck togather

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:35 pm
by [b]racket
I reckon DMZ flyers do the bizz perfectly. What more do you need other than a line up, door tax and an address??

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:36 pm
by geoff
if you don't like the fwd and dmz flyers, i reckon you are waste bruv
both are tidy and neither is over designed

give us an example of a flyer that you like so we can see if there is any weight to you criticisms

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:38 pm
by [b]racket
Know quite a few people that were into the Destructive records / Space Invader vibes...

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:52 pm
by zefa
Don't forget the Skull Disco sleeves and their flyers...if you want hands on design then look no further...top drawer!!!

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:56 pm
by alan
dmz flyers will do there just info.

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:59 pm
by luke.envoy
[b]racket wrote:I reckon DMZ flyers do the bizz perfectly. What more do you need other than a line up, door tax and an address??
standard!

no frills, pure content

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:06 pm
by dubmugga
like 2 separate genres of music thrown together, dub and step and made to work but things can get a bit messy, you should hear some of our reject tunes they just change in the middle to something completely different, not pretty...

... with that design I was going for the messy thing anyway which is why i only spent about 5 minutes on it and it's supposed to fold in half as a CD demo cover hence the different aspects

if dubstep were to adopt a design aesthetic i'd like it to be gritty, grimey and messy with a limit of 2 colours...

and speaking of space invaders here's the t shirt design i did for inflight recordings...
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:06 pm
by alex bk-bk
i generally agree, i dont like a lot of design in the scene. people either go for minimalist (albeit nice) type design (eg Tempa, Soulja), or cheesy as hell d n b graphics. Where the superstructures at!!!?? Can't wait to try my hand at some dubstep design.

I think the Dubpressure kids havve got it spot on though

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:12 pm
by andythetwig
alan wrote:
andythetwig wrote:because pro design costs money, and there's no money in dubstep yet. Watch for the Mu releases, they'll have a budget for that sort of thing I reckon.
thats bollocks pro design is usally ruff, you just have to sit yourself down infrount of a computer and do something or do some arts and crafts and make sleeves.
do it yourself, i bet if you got a pro designed in there'd just give yo some shite graf design anyways.
ok mate keep your beret on, I'm not talking about your home made CDR or limited release vinyl, which is all dubstep is so far. It doesn't make economic sense to pay an artist to produce for an edition of 200. That's the reason white labels are white.

Are you telling us that on a 10000 edition cd on planet Mu, they won't be paying anyone for the cover design?

two yoghurt pots and a pritt stick says they do :)

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:23 pm
by dubmugga
and while still on the space invader tip...

...here's one i did for a breakz gig last year or was it the year before :?
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I even left space for wanky sponsors logos along the top

I'd love to do the boxcutter album design if could just get a handle on the brief :lol:

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:26 pm
by j_j
all looks like video game promo shit ,DMZ flyers r heavyweight ,they r understated ,it works .fuck flyers ,this isnt design design design its soundboy time ,be a soundboy ,enjoy ur time.

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:33 pm
by dubmugga
^^^lay off the crack rentboy

that's just my space invader shit...
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...why don't you post us up something ???

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:52 pm
by alan
andythetwig wrote:
alan wrote:
andythetwig wrote:because pro design costs money, and there's no money in dubstep yet. Watch for the Mu releases, they'll have a budget for that sort of thing I reckon.
thats bollocks pro design is usally ruff, you just have to sit yourself down infrount of a computer and do something or do some arts and crafts and make sleeves.
do it yourself, i bet if you got a pro designed in there'd just give yo some shite graf design anyways.
ok mate keep your beret on, I'm not talking about your home made CDR or limited release vinyl, which is all dubstep is so far. It doesn't make economic sense to pay an artist to produce for an edition of 200. That's the reason white labels are white.

Are you telling us that on a 10000 edition cd on planet Mu, they won't be paying anyone for the cover design?

two yoghurt pots and a pritt stick says they do :)
you should be talking about your homemade cdr and ltd vinyl release.

u could make a nice instrument with two yoghurt pots, proper sub bass

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:00 pm
by dubmugga
^^^whaddayamean ???

...that vex'd cover is the shit

i like the markoneway too...

...but gotta say the virus syndicate one is crap

have no idea what the rest of your post is about didn't know there was still an acid scene

amazing what you miss out on in NZ :shock:

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:36 pm
by mr. messer
who fuckin cares about font

blah blah blah...air...blah blah

font....flyers....

who fuckin cares about font