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 Yesterweb: Stack the content in window like boxes down the page with a vertical band running along one edge, and close the foot with a link list and the ring buttons.
- Type
- Set in Yesterweb's manner (A quirky display face for headings and a plain sans for body text; the manifesto stays as text no matter how long, never as an image.), and let Zine's lettering (Mix handwriting and typing, sizing letters by loudness rather than by grid.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Yesterweb's material (Purple and pink laid over black, a tiled image fixed behind everything, and buttons and stamps pasted in as raw GIFs with no compression pass and no shared dimensions.); bring in exactly one thing from Zine (Coarse photocopy tone, staple binding, the shadows of cut edges left in.).
- Colour
- Build on #000000, #56289B, #C26AB7 and admit one accent from #ece8dd, #c9403b, #171615.
Where they fight
- Roughly 91 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Yesterweb Collect the nineties signifiers but drop the argument and the reason for leaving the corporate web goes with it, leaving the nostalgic wallpaper the movement's own summary names as the trap.
- Zine Copying only the coarse photocopy look misses the point. Who is sharing what with whom comes first, and the roughness is a result of small runs and low budgets, not a goal.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Yesterweb (Aesthetic, 2021–2023) and its accent from Zine (Technique, 1930s– / 1970s revival). Structural cues: Rows of 88 by 31 pixel buttons, put there to be copied by hand onto somebody else's page; A tiled background image that stays fixed while the page scrolls past it; Text heavy GIF stamps carrying the argument itself, such as frames are fine and you should make your own website; Previous, next, and random webring buttons closing out the foot of the page. Accent cues, used sparingly: Photocopiers; Handwriting; Cut and paste; Small print runs. Composition: Stack the content in window like boxes down the page with a vertical band running along one edge, and close the foot with a link list and the ring buttons.. Type and lettering: A quirky display face for headings and a plain sans for body text; the manifesto stays as text no matter how long, never as an image.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Coarse photocopy tone, staple binding, the shadows of cut edges left in.. Mood: Rebellion, Nostalgia, Intimacy, Play. Color: build on #000000, #56289B, #C26AB7 with a single accent drawn from #ece8dd, #c9403b, #171615. 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
- Yesterweb 2021–2023 / Aesthetic / Digital Retro
The look of a movement that began in February 2021 as a Discord room and grew into a webring and a zine. It calls for leaving what it names the core web, the platforms run for profit, in favor of a peripheral web of hand written personal sites, and it dresses its pages in 88 by 31 buttons and stamps arguing that frames are still a good tool.
- Zine 1930s– / 1970s revival / Technique / Publishing and Editing
Circulates personal and communal voices without publishers, through small runs, low budgets and DIY reproduction.
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