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Peiran Tan

peirantan@typo.social

<p>Design History and Class Consciousness</p>

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  • Post #1752195

    High fidelity design receives low-level feedback Low fidelity design is reprimanded for not having worked hard enough, turned into high fidelity design, then receives low-level feedback

  • Post #1752194

    Design criticism should not be consumer buying guide

  • Post #1752193

    Wow, the Czech Winter Olympics team’s uniform references Vojtěch Preissig’s designs!

  • Post #1752192

    The paramilitarization of police The paranationalization of corporations

  • Post #1752191

    Wong Kar-Wai’s movies are always about modernity coming onto somebody

  • Post #1752190

    Dinamo’s ABC Schengen is potentially my typeface of 2026. Such bland shapes, but such ideological cunning https://abcdinamo.com/typefaces/schengen

  • Post #1752189

    Revolution is black market that got too big

  • Post #1752188

    2016: type is cultural monument, mass influence, social progress activator… 2026: TYPE DRIVES BUSINESS

  • Post #1752186

    Children IKEA is best IKEA. Cheap mass-produced with a bit of pop (aka the high modernist ethos without the exorbitant price)

  • Post #1752185

    Striking and incredibly sad that given enough time, all the famous “tastemaxxing skeuomorphism craft” design figures all end up at openly fascist companies. Bold of some of us to assume style has no political connotation…

  • Post #1752183

    No wonder architecture is suddenly about data centers now… turns out AI data centers are being financed by debt, and debt is being packaged 2008-style to be sold as credit default swaps again

  • Post #1752181

    UI slop is inevitable not because of AI but because of the emergent chaotic qualities of tech company decision-making under capitalism. UI slop are quasi-forms that “kinda” implies what their function “look like it could” be, and we’ve been doing this to people way before LLMs

  • Post #1752179

    they say vibe coding for designers will be such a superpower and lemme tell you, having done this exclusively for 2 weeks… vibe coding is absolutely dreadful. instead of drawing and thinking, you’re now just constantly wiping the LLM’s rear while catering to stakeholders who think they now can demand 10000 outlandish things at no cost

  • Post #1752177

    One of the most ideologically controversial moves I experienced at Notion was the website background color changing from cream to full white

  • Post #1752175

    My suspicion is that the foundries saw the amateurish work done at web3 startups in-house and thought, we gotta catch up and sell basically more polished versions of them… an inward-looking industry clientele, met with an inward-looking way of artistic practice

  • Post #1752173

    I was at work today being asked to draw up some “fake designs” to train the company’s AI so that it can generate “great web design”. I need to draw training materials in the styles of “Modern Corporate”, “Quirky” and “Editorialized Agency”. An overwhelming sense of existential dread engulfed me

  • Post #1752171

    What AI has done to software product design is the same as what in-house type design has done to type foundries