This graphic is amazing in that it simultaneously faps over TWO sources of entry-level material: the popular meaningfulcore band DEFEATER and modernist graphic designer Massimo Vignelli (who I hung out with once for a few hours, funny guy). The fggt who made it took what I assume are DEFEATER lyrics/titles and put them on a graphic that looks a lot like Vignelli’s 1972 re-design of the NYC subway map which was rejected by the city for being ‘too designy’ even though all the graphic designers were like ‘omg it is so elegant and sophisticated how can you not see how amazing this is’. Basically, the map’s reception among NYC residents was the same as when you play BTBAM for non-aspies.
If you want people to know that you ‘rly know a lot about art and design,’ you should bring up Vignelli’s subway map, then shake your head slowly and tell them you are ‘disappointed that ppl weren’t ready for his groundbreaking work.’ It’s like saying ‘I only like the demo’ or ‘they were so much better with [original member who left after the first album]‘ because it tells them that you have really good taste. Also, that you are into older stuff (because it is not generic trendy crap like what all the designers these days are doing).
‘if u dont like this map then fukk off i seriasly don’t even care!! !’ – massimo vignelli
I really like this sort of thing, because it is essentially the same as when 8th grade girls write an essay about Oli Sykes or Andy Sixx, and it is always funny when you are reminded of how beta Tumblrbros in their early 20s pretty much act like girls. Only instead of gushing over some predictable, entry-level band, it is some graphic design sophomore gushing over predictable, entry-level ‘sources of inspiration’– but big ups to him for finding a way to combine references to TWO of them at once! I eagerly await his work as a senior, so we can find out whether he has abandoned hardcore for indie rock, or weird electronic music.
Being a graphic designer, I approve this post to be 100% accurate. Now where did I leave my Moleskine… I need to practice my ampersands.
Moleskine = designer diary
I find them very useful 4 logging which disinterested girls I have leant expensive vinyls 2
Strong fansub flashbacks where they leave words untranslated and then at the top it says “ching chong = door”
dat map looks pretty dope, would use it to find the easiest way to my destination
Except the part where it is not geographically accurate and actually makes you disoriented and confused
how else would I get that full New York subway experience?
This. While the map looks really nice and there have been good arguments to support it, it make our subway system more confusing to the tourists that simultaneously boost the city economically and provide an infinite source of lulz and butthurt for locals.
psshh… wtf no freeways?? wha duh fuck is up w/ your taxis!! so umm… can you tell me which way to coney island?? this subway system = mind blown!!!
Mind perpetually bottled by how you West Coast bros drive with more than four lanes. Our taxis are driven by immigrants who regard money far more highly than the law. Coney Island is a wretched hive of Soviets and hipsters its best you not know the way!
I always forget that this band exists, and that people care this much about them.
And as most of this happens on Tumblr, I use the term “people” loosely.
Since they have been around I keep pretending to like them because bishes dig them big time, but every time I actually listen to them I fall asleep.
Graphic design major and Defeater fan here, i’m not mirin the distressed, tea stained paper background on the map and how contrastingly clean and symmetrical the text and timeline looks . Dude should have created another texture layer above the text and timeline and overlay it so the graphics look textured as well, or for a more troo and authentic look, print the design out on clean paper, and tea stain, fold,crease it manually , than scan the design back into the computer……… yes i admit I’m the filth of gay.
Good point– I should have added that his distressing technique (‘grab free textures from Flickr and set to Multiply’) was as entry-level as his source material.
Basically this is some high school kid in flyover country who has wet dreams of going to MICA or RISD someday.
I hate when it defaults to anon. .___.
BOOM. ROASTED!
Uuuuuugh MICA.
Agreed…. once watched MICA students get in a serious drunken argument resulting in a few punches over whether The Clash or Crass were more influential to punk… ugggggh
So in layman’s terms, this is the equivalent of adding a black and white filter in Photoshop??
I have known these guys for years and I can attest that everyone but the singer is a cool dude. Down to party, bang chicks, and in general have a good time. The singer is everything you think he is though – pretentious and butthurt at all times.
Y is there no SYWH Butthurt-BrOlympics? We could group bands nationally, events include:
LSD (lead singer disease)
Genre-Jumping
Turning Tranny
Label-Jumping
Lulzy Hairstyles
Insta-Tatts
Most Cancelled Shows
Midget
Jocking the past
The Overhype
Wiggerish Arm Movements
NPR features
Beardfag
Rape Charges
Cash-in Reunions
Southern-Groove
Clothing Line
Black band member
Rotation of Synth Players
Sunn 0))))
Internet Panhandling
Going Acoustic
Dedication to Short-lived failed subgenre
Getting Religious (incl. Amway)
Fake internet beef that goes nowhere
Edgebro-to-Junkie
Grassy-Field/Parking Garage/Woods
Worst/Most merch
Overall Comprehensive Troo-ness & Gayness
produced by Erik Rutan
BACK TARD
Forgot: Semetic (Heeb or Sand)
This needs to be made into a post. Would read in its entirety.
I’m not a graphic design student so I can’t mock the design in any intelligent way other than I think it looks bad. I don’t know design I just know this one is ugly. Plus he felt the need to gush over a band that is relatively popular right now but couldn’t even be bothered to fact check and get the story right. So now it hurts my eyes on two different levels. I am the filth of gay for <3ing Defeater and for caring about design details. For all I know this could be a Bronson copycat anti trolling, if this is the case I look forward to more so I can train myself to not let it hurt my butt.
Weak Kerning/10
Tufte (who I hung out with once for a few hours, he’s an asshole) told me that this was all shit…he could do much better.
Such a wonderfully hilarious, informative, and perceptive post! Also thanks for the article link.
Its always fun to see the bewilderment of people taking the subway for the first time and they’re all scared they gonn get lost/raped/robbed (with good reason). Conversely, people cant believe Im a grown man with no drivers license (been taking the subway by myself since 12yo.)
I like pointing out all the parts where all the black people are (read: FORBIDDEN ZONE). Actually, its like this Hipster subway map I saw online a little while ago, yet Im 100% serious about warning them:
http://gothamist.com/2010/05/21/map_hipster_friendly_mta.php
Holy crap that is amazing. Must forward to the rest of my NYUFags
lololol, I definitely went into full-on honkey panic mode last time I was in NYC because the subway route I needed to get back to where I was staying after a very late show was closed for the evening, forcing me to use my wits [read: anxiously ask a bunch of strangers] to find my way home myself. The trip back began relatively comfortably and ejoyably, with me watching some hipsterette throwing up and writhing on the floor of the subway, but before I knew it I was surrounded by scary poor ppl and I was heading for Queens…which, based on my sources (Skarhead albums), was apparently not a place I wanted to fuck with. I made it back by 4:30 am (show probably got out around 1:00), and swore off returning to NY until I had somebody to travel with.
AROUND BLACKS, NEVER RELAX
A+
x-D lololol……
IF CHILLIN’ WITH HISPANIC, NEVER PANIC
(cuz you know we got knives and shit)
IF MAD AT BROWN , PREPARE TO DROWN…
=P
Same Cracker Anxiety happened to me when I was in Boston for PAX. Except I started losing my shit just trying to buy my fucking ticket for the Charlie Train or whateverthefuck. It was automated and there was a queue of “legit, weathered, city-dwellers” lining up behind me. My life flashed before my eyes as my throat closes up due to an allergy to eye-rolls and muted, blacks/grey garments.
Felt better on the other side of my transit via upon immediately exiting the subway, there was a girl smoking a joint on the sidewalk like it ain’t no thang. I spun around with my arms outstretched and exclaimed: “so alive, this city!”
did you rlly hang with that graphic designer guy? how’d that happen?
He spoke to the graphic design dept of my college, which a friend of mine organized. His flight was late so I babysat/kept him amused for a few hours at the request of my friend. Funny dude, does not take himself seriously at all.
“does not take himself seriously at all” = automatically chill dude
that’s cool
I dont get any of this, but thats how our trolley maps look like
whoops
I dont get any of this, but thats how our trolley maps look like.
I dont get any of this, but thats how our trolley maps look like.
I dont get any of this, but thats how our trolley maps look like.
As much as I <3 your writing, often times the best part of your posts are the pics that you put at the end of the posts. loling at dat entry level pic.
More importantly, what’s the deal with that Manhattan map? It’s a fucking map, why would anybody jizz over it?
do not listen to defeater. know nothing about them. see posts about them that mention them writing really deep songs about oppression and shit from some blue collar perspective in the 20′s or something. think this a joke/exaggeration. finally look at wikipedia. OH GOD THIS IS ALL TO REAL.
Jesus wept.
tfw when you realize nothing I say about them is an exaggeration :(
Wait I just ready this too. Are 50′s dad haircuts and their concept completely coincidental or directly related?
The connection is too strong. it must be related.
i don’t like this feel. i don’t like it at all.
GOD everything SUCKS nowadays, wish we could get back to a time when things MEANT something and we would be special snowflakes for defending a #cause close to our harts!
Living in the x949x I am confused as to what those pictures with lines and dots represent. HALP!
I’m usually a sucker for “meaningful” music like this but Defeater is just too damn gay. No one cares about your rough-n-lonely upbringin, kiddo.
And this is coming from someone who could be called a casual fan of Title Fight.
it wasn’t even them, he made up some story about someone else havin hard tiimes like a while ago.
still would be much more concerned about you being a title fgght fan tho
omg such a creatve lyircal poet!! s0o0o inspirin
and yeah, I’m kind of a fggt, via not being able to resist dat melancholic post-hardcore crunch guitar riffage.
dudes ffs, their albums have storyline that chronologically spans throught all their releases and that ugly fan art just represents timeline of these events in relation to their releases.
Yeah, come on guys, WHY DIDN’T YOU GET THIS? I MEAN, COME ON.
You guys got it all wrong, the pic was obviously inspired by that shitty NES game Pipe Dreams.
Expect a Hudredth homage based of Loopz to hit the tumblrsphere any day now