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November 14, 2006 3:01 PM   Subscribe

The Graphic Art of Si Scott.
posted by fandango_matt (29 comments total)

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Yep. This dude rules.
posted by nathancaswell at 3:12 PM on November 14, 2006


Nice art, but a better title would be "The obnoxiously nearly-unusable website of Si Scott."
posted by stenseng at 3:21 PM on November 14, 2006 [2 favorites]


This appears to be generic-portfolio-layout number four, complete with missing images and impenetrable navigation.

Some of the actual WORK is good, even if the same florid type treatment does seem to get used for every third client... but it's a shame it's so badly presented.

Am I missing something? If I watch to the end will I see that instead of a bad portfolio site, it's a bad parody of a bad portfolio website?
posted by j-dub at 3:33 PM on November 14, 2006


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wtf.
posted by tomplus2 at 3:37 PM on November 14, 2006


Design of this kind is very beautiful, well-executed and popular...but Si and the like are a bit too repetitive and deconstructionist for my taste. I'm nostalgic for the thoughtfulness and versatility of modernism.
posted by eatyourlunch at 3:39 PM on November 14, 2006 [1 favorite]


Flourishes are super overdone, but work like this is really impressive.
posted by nathancaswell at 3:40 PM on November 14, 2006


Even by the modest standards of newstoday's 'Public Broadcast' this is nothing special. Much less BoTW.
posted by unmake at 3:40 PM on November 14, 2006


wow that guy really likes flourishes and boobs this is incredible it should be called flourishesandboobs.art
posted by Optimus Chyme at 3:44 PM on November 14, 2006


Maximalism at it's best.
Web design at it's worst.
posted by squidfartz at 3:52 PM on November 14, 2006


Massing thunder of tits would also be a nice FPP link name.

Can we save it to reuse later?
posted by j-dub at 3:52 PM on November 14, 2006


Is there some sort of template for creating the art-nouveau flourishes that he has EVERYWHERE?
posted by klangklangston at 4:42 PM on November 14, 2006


Those Victorian Clip Art books sure can come in handy. The work itself isn’t impressive or interesting in a meaningful way, the fact that he can make a living at it, is.
posted by disgruntled at 4:53 PM on November 14, 2006


This guy reminds me of someone in my painting classes who would paint basically the same abstract Photoshop filter every quarter, except in a different color. Each time everyone unveiled their projects for the final critique it was like, Hey look! She did it again, but with blue!
posted by metaly at 4:54 PM on November 14, 2006


So he's a one trick pony; he does the trick well enough.
Until someone writes a simple Photoshop or illustrator method for doing this, he'll probably keep doing it quite lucratively.
posted by Richard Daly at 5:03 PM on November 14, 2006


BIG FONT, PSYCHEDELIC GRADIENT, FLOURISHES OUT THE ASS!




Utter crap.
posted by stenseng at 5:16 PM on November 14, 2006


At least he does it all (or, at least, it seems he does most of it) by hand, with ink: http://www.siscottdesign.com/secretofdrawing.html

...which is pretty awesome - great draughtsmanship.
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 5:54 PM on November 14, 2006


Oops, here:

Drawing
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 5:55 PM on November 14, 2006


eatyourlunch said: "... a bit too repetitive and deconstructionist for my taste."

Not to disagree, but more to make a finer distinction. Si is not deconstructionist. There is no dialog as deconstructive design would communicate. Si is all illustration with some type in lush, dreamy, fluid (sic.), and mostly a fantasy themes. It is seemingly powered my hormones. Decon it is not.

ciao,
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posted by xtian at 6:18 PM on November 14, 2006


At least he does it all (or, at least, it seems he does most of it) by hand, with ink: http://www.siscottdesign.com/secretofdrawing.html

...which is pretty awesome - great draughtsmanship.


Agreed. I take back my clip-art remark. He's got skill.
posted by disgruntled at 6:40 PM on November 14, 2006


"...homeframeset.htm"

Wow, that really takes me back.
posted by aliasless at 8:28 PM on November 14, 2006


I enjoy visiting websites of designers who don't worry so much about their audience that they splay everything up front. Also, for designers or artists, I believe a minimal site design serves the portfolio well by not distracting.
posted by asfuller at 8:36 PM on November 14, 2006


1. post peter max
2. silversun pickups, carnavas?
3. throw in some vienna decadence
4. ok for the right assignment, but not my present definition of where we are, or where we are going.
5. not a bush post, therefore, thank you.
posted by wallstreet1929 at 8:42 PM on November 14, 2006


Same shit, different words. Interesting the first time. The twentieth time? Not so much.
posted by beth at 8:43 PM on November 14, 2006


Also, for designers or artists, I believe a minimal site design serves the portfolio well by not distracting.

There's a difference between "minimal" and "impenetrable." At least if you're old-fashioned enough to believe that graphic design ought to communicate something. If anything, the web design style obscures the work it's supposed to showcase.
posted by arto at 9:44 PM on November 14, 2006 [1 favorite]


xtian: Oh please! "Massive thunder of tits" is represented as a woman covered in an avalanche of circles! If you want to split postmodern hairs, it'd be more literally deconstructivist if the circular forms were in the precise proportion to nipple, areola and breast, with little droplets of milk thrown in for good measure, but you best shut yo mouf lest I get all Emigre on your ass!
posted by eatyourlunch at 10:13 PM on November 14, 2006


> even if the same florid type treatment does seem to get used for every third client

He missed his calling. With a better high-school guidance counsellor he could actually have been an OK shotgun engraver.
posted by jfuller at 6:01 AM on November 15, 2006


> 1. post peter max

Actually this sort of roundy-go-roundy aesthetic is pretty massively retro (all of these examples being pre-Roman Celtic.) (Not that retro is automatically bad.)
posted by jfuller at 6:52 AM on November 15, 2006


eatyourlunch said: "you best shut yo mouf lest I get all Emigre on your ass!"

Emigre? What's that? I said it before and I'll say it again. These images are not a deconstructionist dialog. Repeating the shape of the breast in the form of a circle says nothing about breasts, women or Si's fasination with, as you suggest, milk or nipples. Its a hormonal fasination with the unattainable. It is the work of an airbrush artist on Venice beach painting tit- tshirts.

Since I don't believe the work is decon, I won't bother to search for a counter example in Si, but only bury your arguement as the Si-t it is.

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posted by xtian at 11:22 AM on November 19, 2006


Emigre is the avant-font mag. (And you're right, it's not deconstruction. Just repeating a motif isn't deconstructing anything).
posted by klangklangston at 12:50 PM on November 19, 2006


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