{"id":15558,"date":"2009-10-09T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2009\/10\/09\/life-is-tweet\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:43","slug":"life-is-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2009\/10\/09\/life-is-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

We need a term for the visual period we’re living in. There’s a definite style emerging, something we’ll recognise when it’s past (and possibly roll our eyes at, but hopefully not), but we don’t have a name for it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Whatever the over-arching theme is, it has something to do with birds. (Owls and sparrow-y-type things seem to be most popular.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Like this template for Apple’s Pages<\/a> word-processor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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<\/a>…the Twitter<\/a> logo…
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<\/a>…every other thing for sale on Etsy<\/a>…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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<\/a>…and shop<\/a> signage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hand-lettered fonts and graphics are everywhere, too, like in the posters for Juno<\/em><\/a> and Away We Go<\/em><\/a> (both of which feature pregnancy; hmm).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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<\/a>I’m not complaining. I like the look of these things, because they look like people<\/em> made them. In fact, I just redesigned this website ’cause I realised its main design message seemed to be “Look, Hame got a Mac!” I make books by hand, so I figured the site should reflect that hand-made experience better, so I changed it, the main difference being that all the if-you-buy-Mac-software-you’ve-seen-them buttons changed to hand-lettered text (based on the Dr Strangelove<\/u><\/em> titles,<\/u><\/a> actually).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

DIY culture is on the rise, and this aesthetic just helps make it look approachable and fun. Is this a movement a response to the glut of consumption foisted on us, that we’re not only sick of but whose consequences we’re now legitimately afraid of?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A few years ago, a Finnish design student named Ulla-Maaria Mutanen beautifully articulated the attractions and benefits of this movement in her Draft Craft Manifesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Whatever the motivation, I love that people are hungry for a culture other real people have made, and they’re allowed to make, too. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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