Absurd Design – Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector Art(absurd.design)
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Absurd Design – Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector Art
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Do you not understand art?!
Do you not understand art?!
Exactly my thoughts while reading most of the posts in this thread
Someone should tell them what they should understand.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
I 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.
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.
It's also pricing a job market into extinction.
That 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.
Just 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.
I 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.
I 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.
What makes these illustrations absurdist or surreal outside of the quarterly pricing?
I'm guessing it's the general aesthetic that makes it surrealist
But hey, that's just a guess
But hey, that's just a guess
Beautiful and minimalist style, but it isn't clear what happens when you cancel/pause the quarterly subscription.
I like this. Illustrations are great and whimsical and they made my day.
Idea is great. Execution and the artworks... not good.
Enjoying art is a subjective experience. Others might appreciate these illustrations.
Such as myself, I found them rather fun to look at.
Same here. Clever ideas reduced to an expressive and surreal form
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.