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Absurd Design – Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector Art
- werber 7y agoWhat makes these illustrations absurdist or surreal outside of the quarterly pricing?
- johnmarinelli 7y agoI'm guessing it's the general aesthetic that makes it surrealist But hey, that's just a guess
- iamnotacrook 7y agoThey're free, billed quarterly. Got it.
- mycall 7y agoThat's absurd!
- dosy 7y agoWow, predictable HN snark from a jerk. Someone releases something beautiful artistic creative and free and you have to heap shit all over it. That says great things about you. No compliment, no appreciation. Just come here to make fun. Guess you got triggered by the creativity so you have to make yourself feel better by diminishing it, huh?
- duxup 7y ago>In a digital era, we sometimes feel the need to interact with something more human that will make us appreciate both the beauty and the imperfection of something made by hand. I appreciate the sentiment but I'm not sure a handful of illustrations actually does that. I've often thought about what makes a website feel more natural but honestly sites like hacker news probabbly is as "natural" as an experience gets for a browser.
- ztratar 7y agowaves hands vigorously Do you not understand art?!
- johnmarinelli 7y agoExactly my thoughts while reading most of the posts in this thread
- duxup 7y agoSomeone should tell them what they should understand.
- duxup 7y agoI can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
- johnxie 7y agoBeautiful and minimalist style, but it isn't clear what happens when you cancel/pause the quarterly subscription.
- coolvision 7y agoIdea is great. Execution and the artworks... not good.
- jasonsb 7y agoEnjoying art is a subjective experience. Others might appreciate these illustrations.
- hellofunk 7y agoSuch as myself, I found them rather fun to look at.
- johnmarinelli 7y agoSame here. Clever ideas reduced to an expressive and surreal form
- jorams 7y agoJust a little feedback on the website: the animating text on the fourth slide makes everything below it constantly jump up and down, on mobile. It makes most of the site a chore to read, and practically unusable.
- Manheim 7y agoI find the business model interesting. It is difficult to make a living as a content creator. Setting a limited number of subscribers on an exclusive illustration series will probably work better than giving illustrations away for free and then hope someone will hire you. Setting a quarterly subscription of $57 will give the designer $5700 a month if he manage to get 300 subscribers. I am sure this model can be duplicated by other independent content creators, and not only illustrators. When it comes to the art itself I happen to like this artist's pen. That is a matter of taste and opinion of course. However, the business model is generic.
- imagetic 7y agoIt's also pricing a job market into extinction.
- Manheim 7y agoThat will depend on the market in question, wouldn't it? I mean, for example from the freelancers perspective it is not. From their perspective it could have the opposite effect; enable them to earn more by running parallel subscription based services.
- jsinai 7y agoI like this. Illustrations are great and whimsical and they made my day.
- theelous3 7y agoI can only applaud an artist taking a new approach to monitisation. I hope this catches on generally, as a way for artists to build sustainable patronage.
- imagetic 7y agoI don't see how we're going to be able to produce good, quality, and original content with purpose with these types of pricing models and see media people earn a living wage.