#web is dead

[designofrandomthings]

Design by me & printed with friends at University of Texas’ letterpress lab in 2017. They have a big collection of Rob Roy Kelly wood type that we used to print this. We only had certain letters at this size so we brainstormed for a minute what we could even spell with what we had! I suggested “web is dead” as a play on the phrase “print is dead”.

[thedarkwanderer]

McLuhan said it before but not everyone is actually aware of it (brands/agencies). Reminds me of Wired's Chris Anderson article: 'The Web is Dead' on Internet and our human nature on embracing and making use of technology.

When any new form comes into the foreground of things, we naturally look at it through the old stereos. We can’t help that. This is normal, and we’re still trying to see how will our previous forms of political and educational patterns persist under television. We’re just trying to fit the old things into the new form, instad of asking what is the new form going to do to all the assumptions we had before.