can't even have the pleasure of aesthetically pleasing logos and brands anymore, everything's got to be a single word in black and white

can our overlords atleast go back to marketing that doesn't look like ass

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    COMMUNISM IS NOT REPO MAN PEOPLE! YOU CAN HAVE COOL BRANDING AND ARTWORK!

    People should be proud of the social product they create with their productive labor. They should want to mark that product so other people want to use it. Make things look cool, generic naming and bland art is for capitalist monopolies.

    • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      sure, but we'll have to change it all eventually anyway, and using art to market products for shareholders is meh. i'm glad the artist maybe gets their name out (lol not happening) but the idea that commercialization isn't a complete degradation of art is where we disagree.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's not commercialization in the capitalist sense if it's workers branding a product that they made. The whole problem with capitalist branding is that it's meant to be manipulative and not descriptive and creative.

        I think a world where all beer is the same and all food is just called by a generic name is depressing. There's nothing wrong with regionalized production and artwork and branding done by workers in those regions that informs whoever ends up with the product about the people who made it and their culture.

        • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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          3 years ago

          yeah i agree. but i still like seeing "beer" on a can.

          maybe i'm just poisoned from hating commercialized art for years and years.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I mean, incorporating some form of "beer" on your (beer) brand is good, again, a brand should be descriptive and in cases like alchohol/beer where a single shop makes multiple different products, each label they put out under their brand should also be descriptive of what the label is in relation to the brand and include some form of creative work that represents the conditions and culture of the creators. Like the way craft/small batch breweries do it is fine and that's what labeling and branding should look like under socialism.