“Everything is reactionary,” explains designer Daniel Brokestad. The visual treatment is a stylistic F-you to the orderliness of minimalism. Musicians, shoe brands, and general “youth culture” at large tend to be the main purveyors of the style. The designers who’ve adopted this computerized sheen employ it for a range of uses, from nostalgic throwbacks to conveying a deliberately futuristic vibe.īy now, liquid metal is so ubiquitous that it’s hard to say where the trend truly started, but in recent years it’s been adopted with fervor by designers who peddle in what’s best described as culture-centric design. But is the chrome glint a callback to early computer graphics or a glance forward to our cyborgian design future? It really depends on your point of view. This genre, made popular by David Rudnick’s intricate layers of geometries and jagged type, is a haven for all things glistening, illegible, and glaringly artificial. Liquid metal is a key planet in the acid graphics universe. It makes sense then that liquid metal is closely aligned to a more contemporary version of psychedelia, too. It’s fair to say liquid metal owes some of its futuristic trippy-ness to the spindly typography that came out of the metal scene-a genre that has its roots, thanks to rawk, man, in the early days of psychedelic design. “A shiny metal that runs like water is very mesmerizing.” Indeed it is, but let’s go a little deeper. “It’s unusual, almost surreal,” says designer Zipeng Zhu. The simplest explanation is that liquid metal just looks cool. this sum repugnant sheit September 1, 2019 One thing’s forsure, ppl that employ this look churn work out like machines /y21vHYIa6U So is Eric Hu, Zipeng Zhu, The New Company, Jonathan Castro, Yuta Kawaguchi, Mirko Borsche, Elliot Grunewald, Darren Oorloff, and So. Dazed magazine just launched a new beauty site with a chromed-out identity. The better question is, who isn’t? Jessica Walsh employed it for her slippery new logo.
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Though spaceship silver is the style’s default sheen, liquid metal can take on a watery irredescence, a matte-black buff, or a ’90s-era Windows screensaver vibe.
The digital trick can be achieved through 3D rendering software, but an artfully applied Photoshop filter or two also does the trick. The look is distinctly computerized: think sinuous, jagged type that’s been plumped by pixels, or water drop squiggles that look like they’ve dripped from a melted lead pipe. Have other nominations for trends we should feature? Shoot us an email at are you seeing?Ĭall it what you want-liquid metal, chromic graphics, chrometype-but gleaming typography, three-dimensional logos, and textured illustrations are everywhere right now. To kick things off, we’re looking at “liquid metal,” the glinting 3 D texture effect that gives everything it touches a futuristic shine. Welcome to Spotted, Eye on Design’ s new column that turns an eye (ahem) on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing everywhere.
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