Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Glitch: Build the healthy composition first, then break part of it
- Type
- Set in Glitch's manner (Partially corrupt a monospace or plain sans), and let Surf Club's lettering (Do not choose a typeface. Leaving the default in place is part of the meaning, and replacing it makes something else.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Glitch's material (RGB shift, compression noise, missing pieces); bring in exactly one thing from Surf Club (Leave found material as found. Keep the compression artefacts, the low resolution and the stock gradients.).
- Colour
- Build on #111217, #f43d73, #24c8e6 and admit one accent from #FFFFFF, #0000EE, #CCCCCC.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Glitch Perpetual glitch loses meaning. Stage the difference between normal and broken.
- Surf Club Cleaning up the found material and arranging it well removes the found state that the style is actually made of, leaving only collage.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Glitch (Style, digital) and its accent from Surf Club (Style, 2006–2012). Structural cues: Channel shift; Block noise; Scanlines; Dropout. Accent cues, used sparingly: A default blog template left alone, with posts stacking in date order and no design applied; Screenshots of web searches, targeted ads and stock gradients posted as found; Posts answering other posts, so the same image returns altered by another member; Amateur material sitting in the same column as work, with nothing marking the difference. Composition: Build the healthy composition first, then break part of it. Type and lettering: Partially corrupt a monospace or plain sans. Let one material quality come from the second style: Leave found material as found. Keep the compression artefacts, the low resolution and the stock gradients.. Mood: Futurism, Rebellion, Technology, Play, Nostalgia. Color: build on #111217, #f43d73, #24c8e6 with a single accent drawn from #FFFFFF, #0000EE, #CCCCCC. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Glitch digital / Style / UI Expression
Refuses to hide error and corruption, exposing the fragility of the digital medium itself.
- Surf Club 2006–2012 / Style / Digital Art
A movement that made the collaborative blog itself the site of the work. Nasty Nets, founded in 2006 by John Michael Boling, Joel Holmberg, Guthrie Lonergan, Marisa Olson and others, was the first to popularize the term surf club, and other collectives took the label up. It grew out of link sharing on del.icio.us, so found images, screenshots of searches and targeted ads pile up in date order inside a default blog template.
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