Meme-
speriment #2

DES3510 Word & Image 3 ︎ 2019/12/03 ︎ In-class assignment
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Background

Memes are a fundamental convergence of word & image. They are both the ultimate “modernist dream” of (usually) photography combined with imagery and a post-modern expression of vernacular & democratic aesthetic sensibilities. They are also a new and largely unexplored visual space. Comedy, through which memes usually flow, is a subtle, and difficult art. For all these reasons, we can explore memes as a way to free ourselves from the burden of the history of graphic design. Also I get many more of the Purchase Memes now. ︎

Requirements & Rules

All memes must be at least 1000px by 1000px
You must create 10 memes
Submit them into this Google Slide document.
Do not label them with your name yet.
At some point you may have to express something observational like “when I...” or use a colloquialism like “bruh,” but attempt to avoid, at most costs, common meme text templates like “my feeling/reaction when” “iight, I’mma head out” and the like.
If you have trouble generating imagery but have some writing, find someone who is having trouble generating words and work together with them.
The memes cannot contain the following typefaces:

Verdana
Tahoma
Arial
Futura

Helvetica
Roboto
Georgia
Courier

Calibri
Times
Impact
Papyrus

Some Choice Selections from the Last Meme-speriment

Resources

Websites for Typography︎

Velvetyne.fr
(libre fonts)
The League of Movable Type

(pretty regular-ass typefaces but they are free)

Fontain.org
OH no Type Co.
(demo fonts available)
Adobe Fonts
(if you have Creative Cloud)
Future Fonts (some typefaces have “demo” versions)
Parallax Typeface (this is a free typeface that I love because it was designed so that you could “draw” circuits in your source code, you can make cool little doodads with it)

Here are some texts you can pull from, if you’re not sure where to begin︎

Howl by Allen Ginsberg(Just a good-ass poem)
The Metamorphosis by Ovid (if you want to get mythological)
Online Poetry Generator

(this one seems to be a little on the dirty side)

Tutorial on how to channel your soul via automatic writing (this is a surrealist writing technique, maybe not this exact methodology ︎ but the idea is the same)

Here are some online tools︎

Sigil Generator

(what we used briefly for the logo component of your projects)

BeFunky (unleash your inner graphic designer! I assume these are gross but curious how far they can go, or how much we have to “compete” with them)
ASCII Type Generator

(You’ll need a monospaced typeface if you want to use the output from here in a program like Illustrator or inDesign)

This Person Does Not Exist(interesting and frightening tool that generates pictures of people that don’t exist procedurally)
Axis Praxis(Website where you can try out variable typefaces)

Places to look for images︎

Pexels
(free stock image/video site)
Pixabay

(another one)

Unsplash

(yet another one)

The Noun Project

(I kinda hate that this website exists, you may be forced to use this in your journey as a designer of graphics, but it does have a comprehensive set of icons for anything you can imagine)

SenshiStock Sketch (This is an amazing resource if you don’t have access to live drawing classes, but some of the photographs are kind of inevitably goofy)