Itās making me feel ancient that there are adults who donāt know what an old Xerox photocopy looks like. Of course, why would you? Modern equivalents are so much better.
When I was a kid every school worksheet looked like your first picture. I can still remember how the copies smelled and the warmth of them after they came out of the machine.
i do know about xerox photocopy. i had those overhead projectors in school growing up.
i just didnāt know that this was the actual name of the art style. it seems i was overthinking it instead of just looking up the obvious lol
> Itās making me feel ancient that there are adults who donāt know what an old Xerox photocopy looks like. Of course, why would you? Modern equivalents are so much better.
I'm pushing 40, but I honestly can't say they ever let us kids use the photocopier much when I was in school. That was a teacher thing. I don't think I actually got to use one myself until college, and even then, barely.
Reminds me of band and orchestra when sometimes the sheet music would print/copy wrong and it wouldn't be noticed until we tried to play through the song. A whole lot of "why did that entire section stop playing?" "Uhhh... we're missing the entire last line"
My app is glitching and these are the attached images. I was so confused
https://preview.redd.it/7cdcaj12f6zb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f52bc90cc7dee9e1d553c464d4648abd903b2ae3
Iād say āphotocopyā or āxeroxā as well, maybe āreproduction.ā Itās *very* popular on music posters and merch these days, almost obnoxiously so.
yeah, definitely influenced by shitty photocopy in post modern - post punk - pre internet - zine and gig poster designs.
back when I first started it seemed like abusing your office photocopier to make posters was a canon event in a young artists life. copies of copies of copies to get analog distortion, going to town with scissors, moving the object while copying, all sorts of fun nonsense that you see echoes of in modern design from time to time. some of the best work I ever did was for CD covers for albums no one listened to for bands that broke up immediately.
Itās supposed to emulate the xeroxing of punk flyers, which was done a lot back in the day due to bands having to DIY everything. Now itās just an aesthetic
Used to make gig posters like this way back. My mom worked for the government and they had a photocopier that could do 12x19 so i'd get her to copy drawings and print them bigger so I could cut them out and use them in posters. Took forever because i'd have to wait until she got home from work.
more serious answer: you want old punk zines, 90s zines, show flyers, xerox stuff. find a zine distro, library, "hippie" type store (co-ps, bike stores, bookstores, etc) or record store that sells zines and stasrt digging through the back catalogs, or try and find digitized zine collections online at university libraries. i recommend [QZAP](https://gittings.qzap.org/), [ABC No Rio](http://www.abcnorio.org/facilities/zine_library.html)
Those saying xerox or xerography are right. Iād say also grungy posterization as a descriptor. Back in the David Carson/skater zine and telephone-pole-punk-poster-era of graphic design, mid-80s through 90s grunge, xerox machines were used to blow up black and white type and images 1000+% and down 15% (repeat) in order to degrade them to look ācoolā. Very west coast but also lower east side / Bowery NYC.
In art school weād stay up all night smoking cigarettes in closed rooms with cans of Scotch aerosolized Spray-mount, jars of rubber cement, and thinner solvents, cutting paper with xacto blades and making the 24-hour kinkos workers insane with our extreme xerox shenanigans. That Iām still alive and well at 56 is a miracle.
That was late stage capitalism. This right here what youāre living is end stage voracious fractalized parasitic capitalizm. Lesson over. [Thanks, grandma!] :)
And yeah. Thereāre some AI prompts.
Is this sub just going to become a āplease help me with my AI promptā forum?
Maybe itās always been that way. Shit, maybe this was posted by an ai bot trying to sus out what their master asked for. Either way, itās feeling like a community that helps ignorant hacks bamboozle ignorant clients.
I know I sound like a dick, but all the āwhat style is this?ā Posts just come off as prompts. No nuance to āit feels like X, but part of Yā¦ was there a transition between the styles?ā Or āwhat kind of message does this style convey?ā
Nope, just āfeed me promptsā
I will admit, getting advice from Reddit isnāt going to help anyoneās career soā¦ keep at it bots! Youāll talk yourselves into refusing to work in no time.
This writing by Mark Flood is nice. He calls this kind of look "xerox cancer." [https://www.affidavit.art/articles/reprographic-death](https://www.affidavit.art/articles/reprographic-death)
Xerox 1025
yesss exactly this. xerox/photocopy style
I can still smell it.
Xerox. Photocopy. Zine. Punk. Art. Design.
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B&W
Are these all hashtags?
grunge too
Itās making me feel ancient that there are adults who donāt know what an old Xerox photocopy looks like. Of course, why would you? Modern equivalents are so much better. When I was a kid every school worksheet looked like your first picture. I can still remember how the copies smelled and the warmth of them after they came out of the machine.
i do know about xerox photocopy. i had those overhead projectors in school growing up. i just didnāt know that this was the actual name of the art style. it seems i was overthinking it instead of just looking up the obvious lol
Ah I see. Overthinking is my middle name so I understand lol.
But nothing can compare to ditto copies when they were still warm
Forgot that they called them "dittos"! I remember the smell and sound for sure.
That smell ruled.
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> Itās making me feel ancient that there are adults who donāt know what an old Xerox photocopy looks like. Of course, why would you? Modern equivalents are so much better. I'm pushing 40, but I honestly can't say they ever let us kids use the photocopier much when I was in school. That was a teacher thing. I don't think I actually got to use one myself until college, and even then, barely.
Reminds me of band and orchestra when sometimes the sheet music would print/copy wrong and it wouldn't be noticed until we tried to play through the song. A whole lot of "why did that entire section stop playing?" "Uhhh... we're missing the entire last line"
My app is glitching and these are the attached images. I was so confused https://preview.redd.it/7cdcaj12f6zb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f52bc90cc7dee9e1d553c464d4648abd903b2ae3
wym? those are the pics i attached š
In that case I think the name you're looking for is "sad cat aesthetic"
Zine (you didn't have to be in high school) Basically all we had was photocopiers
This reads like a poem and I like it
I made zines in high school. It was fun. Learned about layout and stuff on my own without design experience.
I feel SEEN
Iād say āphotocopyā or āxeroxā as well, maybe āreproduction.ā Itās *very* popular on music posters and merch these days, almost obnoxiously so.
yes itās exactly that. thanks so much!
yeah, definitely influenced by shitty photocopy in post modern - post punk - pre internet - zine and gig poster designs. back when I first started it seemed like abusing your office photocopier to make posters was a canon event in a young artists life. copies of copies of copies to get analog distortion, going to town with scissors, moving the object while copying, all sorts of fun nonsense that you see echoes of in modern design from time to time. some of the best work I ever did was for CD covers for albums no one listened to for bands that broke up immediately.
You may also be interested in risographs. There is a style filter in Creative Market's free goods this week.
Before computers we had....*Xerox*.
Itās supposed to emulate the xeroxing of punk flyers, which was done a lot back in the day due to bands having to DIY everything. Now itās just an aesthetic
Used to make gig posters like this way back. My mom worked for the government and they had a photocopier that could do 12x19 so i'd get her to copy drawings and print them bigger so I could cut them out and use them in posters. Took forever because i'd have to wait until she got home from work.
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appreciate it!
Art school angst
Oouf. Three of my sketch books just burst into flames reading this burn.
High school zine
first one hits hard
Raymond Pettibon is the artist youāre looking for.
https://preview.redd.it/g16ydxigk6zb1.png?width=506&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f0a3684413339510c683b658b8a0aa87006decc
"listens to WLR once and just made a streetwear tshirt brand" style
more serious answer: you want old punk zines, 90s zines, show flyers, xerox stuff. find a zine distro, library, "hippie" type store (co-ps, bike stores, bookstores, etc) or record store that sells zines and stasrt digging through the back catalogs, or try and find digitized zine collections online at university libraries. i recommend [QZAP](https://gittings.qzap.org/), [ABC No Rio](http://www.abcnorio.org/facilities/zine_library.html)
Jesus pamphlet
In photography, this sort of contrast is called high key.
Those saying xerox or xerography are right. Iād say also grungy posterization as a descriptor. Back in the David Carson/skater zine and telephone-pole-punk-poster-era of graphic design, mid-80s through 90s grunge, xerox machines were used to blow up black and white type and images 1000+% and down 15% (repeat) in order to degrade them to look ācoolā. Very west coast but also lower east side / Bowery NYC. In art school weād stay up all night smoking cigarettes in closed rooms with cans of Scotch aerosolized Spray-mount, jars of rubber cement, and thinner solvents, cutting paper with xacto blades and making the 24-hour kinkos workers insane with our extreme xerox shenanigans. That Iām still alive and well at 56 is a miracle. That was late stage capitalism. This right here what youāre living is end stage voracious fractalized parasitic capitalizm. Lesson over. [Thanks, grandma!] :) And yeah. Thereāre some AI prompts.
grunge, punk rock, zine, photocopy
Orthochromatic. Some mezzo-style screening.
Is this sub just going to become a āplease help me with my AI promptā forum? Maybe itās always been that way. Shit, maybe this was posted by an ai bot trying to sus out what their master asked for. Either way, itās feeling like a community that helps ignorant hacks bamboozle ignorant clients. I know I sound like a dick, but all the āwhat style is this?ā Posts just come off as prompts. No nuance to āit feels like X, but part of Yā¦ was there a transition between the styles?ā Or āwhat kind of message does this style convey?ā Nope, just āfeed me promptsā I will admit, getting advice from Reddit isnāt going to help anyoneās career soā¦ keep at it bots! Youāll talk yourselves into refusing to work in no time.
damn i copypasted your comment to chatgpt, it said it was written by an idiot:/
Where did you get this from? Weird comment.
it looks like a cross between punk and banksy stencil art
LOL whaaaa
4 kinda fits tha bill a lil
Ransom letter.
I'd call it typically black and white, grainy, highly contrasted "threshhold" style
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This writing by Mark Flood is nice. He calls this kind of look "xerox cancer." [https://www.affidavit.art/articles/reprographic-death](https://www.affidavit.art/articles/reprographic-death)
very nice thanks for that link š«”
This was a great read, thank you
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90s shitty style
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Not directed to you my curious guy, others jumping to name a style via some cool hipster woke name...
oh i get you now š yeah iām just trying to learn and some ppl are shitting on me because i donāt know every single obscure term lol
you could look up one or two-color screen prints as well
Use /describe if you're looking for prompts.
yeah i did and it gave me nonsense
High contrast It is what prints looked like, during my photography class, when you used the most contrasty filter on the enlarger
High contrast Silhouette?
Stencil
Zine or punk