{"id":46759,"date":"2019-12-02T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46759"},"modified":"2020-08-12T13:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:22:06","slug":"not-art-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46759","title":{"rendered":"Not art + design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because every gym on the planet is seemingly contractually obligated to be airing ESPN on at least one television, I saw this story about how the coach of the Cleveland Browns was spotted wearing this t-shirt<\/a> that said \u201cPittsburgh started it,\u201d as commentary over an incident a few weeks ago where the Browns\u2019 Myles Garrett and the Steelers\u2019 Mason Rudolph got into a scuffle ending with Garrett ripping Rudolph\u2019s helmet off of him and swinging it at his head.\u00a0 Garrett has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL for basically assault, and Rudolph was fined a bunch of money for remarks that supposedly started the whole incident which may or may not have been racist.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t a post about the incident, because when the day is over, I really don\u2019t give two shits about an organization that somehow thinks organized dog death fighting is a lesser crime than kneeling during the national anthem.\u00a0\u00a0 No, I\u2019m more incensed over the fact that on the aforementioned t-shirt, is an actual signature on it from a supposed \u201cart + design\u201d company as if printing a t-shirt with three words in the Garfield font<\/a> (Cooper Black) is remotely anything considered art or design.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the kind of shit that really makes me jaded towards the creative industry as a whole.\u00a0 A bunch of hacks out there that take the most low-effort bullshit, slap a logo or take credit for it, and call it \u201cdesign.\u201d\u00a0 And when challenged, comes a deluge of bullshit about minimalism or simplicity.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s legions of like-minded sheep who think it\u2019s the most innovative idea in the world, and then it goes viral and people actually benefit from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazingly, the \u201ccompany\u201d that signed this shirt that I could easily plagiarize in 2 seconds, appears to be an actual company that actually makes all sorts of Cleveland-centric apparel and merch, almost all of which is 78,000% more creative and contains actual design than Pittsburgh Started It.\u00a0 But because they\u2019re an actual company, they do<\/em> have the audacity to try to monetize their low-hanging fruit, and to no surprise at all, are selling these bullshit shirts for $28 a pop.\u00a0 But realistically, even if it was some individual who calls themselves a studio, they\u2019d still try to sell them for $35, because they\u2019re broke-ass poor and trying to capitalize on going viral.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, people are buying them because they clearly have way too much money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, if I had more than 0 readers, I\u2019m sure I\u2019d inevitably be accused of being jealous that someone out there is making money on such a low-budget idea.\u00a0 And they\u2019d be entirely right, because I would love to make actual money on such little effort.\u00a0 Why the fuck can\u2019t something controversial and nationally known happen for an Atlanta team, that I could easily make into some sort of meme, call it design and cash in on?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because every gym on the planet is seemingly contractually obligated to be airing ESPN on at least one television, I saw this story about how the coach of the Cleveland Browns was spotted wearing this t-shirt that said \u201cPittsburgh started it,\u201d as commentary over an incident a few weeks ago where the Browns\u2019 Myles Garrett … Continue reading Not art + design<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,79,45,106,94,153,52,156,58,69,146],"class_list":["post-46759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-branding","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-football","tag-graphic-design","tag-memes","tag-owned","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-triggered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46761,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46759\/revisions\/46761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}