From the random generator, I got “Do designers bear responsibility?” and on a “4 page tabloid newspaper”

I had only got 2 pages and I was not sure where was this going.

I mocked a standard newspaper layout and yet swapped the typefaces with “funny” ones. By funny I mean in general, the fonts are considered as “ugly” and only uses them as jokes. That includes, Papyrus (Logo and header), Comic Sans (context), Times New Roman (News Title), and Curlz MT (2nd page).

I was mixing up a lot of things with the idea of Postmodernism. So far, I am still following Lyotard’s idea on raising skepticism on metanarratives. So, in that sense, I was looking for some big narratives that were circulating and popular right now (and also related to GCD discipline).

So I looked at instagram’s explore and saw some “design gurus” online teaching people how to “create content”:

I screenshoted a bucnh real quickly without reading into them too much. Yet, I could see there are guidlines about having some sort of rules and tricks of making “contents” that “work”.

It was as if soundling like some grandnarratives. For exmple, it teaches the layour should be clean and minimalistic. “Not more than 3 fonts” or “not too much colours” and “HIERACHY”.

Therefore, I mocked a standard newspaper layout and yet swapped the typefaces with “funny” ones. By funny I mean in general, the fonts are considered as “ugly” and only uses them as jokes. That includes, Papyrus (Logo and header), Comic Sans (context), Times New Roman (News Title), and Curlz MT (2nd page).

The news titles all grabbed from people who got “cancelled” for something they did or said.