Previously mentioned, the online app Canva seems to attract a lot of hate. So I headed to it and see how does it operate, in order to find out what makes people dislike it. It is indeed a very template heavy. They have all different presets made, from the composition of layout, to colour combinations and typeface combination. There were not much for me to do expect for chaging texts and adding my own images in the boxes provided. As I was invested in Comic Sans during this term, I tried add that in it. However it is not installed in this application and there was no way I could install my own font into it. Still I proceeded and tried to “break” it. I just got some really weird posters like this.

The template heavy application really have left me not much to explore. Yet, these presets and templates reminds me of the guidlines for International Typographic Styles published by the modernists designers. As a result, I shoved these Canva posters into the Swiss Grids and systems.

Eventually I put the Canva poster, and the comments on the meme account that disagreed with the memes (that writes “No one becomes a designer by using any software. It’s a way of thinking […] Stop thinking you’re better than everyone…”) and aseembled in the ways of the Swiss Styles.

Predictable as it is, the typeface used in the body text is Comic Sans. Meanwhile the title “Graphic Design Humour”, which was a mimicking name of Designer’s Humor, is set in Helvetica, to capture it back to the modernism. By juxtapositioning these elements, I want to make fun of all these things at once: the meme account with some degree of dogma, the people who took the memes too seriously, and the systemetic modernists.