Well, so far for blogging daily...if we count today i'm 2/3...not so good. So I'll catch you up! :)

Yesterday, the Bonniepire went to write "offensive" things on the wall of...you guessed it "All things offensive". Being a graphic designer with a huuuuge "offense" of terrible design, I wrote MACRAP! In fact, not only did I write macrap, but I wrote it in it's style complete with terrible rainbow colors and polka dots...


In other exciting news, the fountain is PURPLE! And there is a castle on library lawn. You know for how many friends I have in the SCA you would think that KISS-MY-ANTHIA from Role Models would not be my first thought upon seeing this castle...alas, it was.


Last, but not least, I got the joy of sitting by "nose-deaf-perfume-chick" on the bus today. HOORAY! :-/

Hello again! I am officially done with classes as of yesterday and to celebrate I feel it is time for a definition of my favorite design term "macrap".

You've all been subjected to it, fliers on bulletin boards, posters for concerts, emailed brochures, and tv commercials...now, you know what to call it.

Macrap is design created including all or some of the following:

• wordart. Wordart simply put needs to go away. Your rainbow effect type on a beveled curve should not be subjected to anyone.
• stretched typefaces...someone spent hours creating that typeface...do you really need to screw it up?
• pixelated imagery...72 dpi is good for web, not for print. :)
• stretched imagery...hit the shift key, it's not hard!
  
• misspellings

Here is an example of "Macrap" from the term's inventor himself Jim Watson

So now that there is a term for it, lets make a revolution against it. Educate others.

and remember

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."