jeff bleitz - Style Posters Part Two

Just to recap. This project started with a chance conversation with a young designer lamenting what she felt was the absence of a "style" in her work.
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I've long held the belief that the "style" of the work should be determined by the target audience and the needs of the client. (Needs, not wants). On that day, however, in that particular week, I was going through some identity questions of my own. So having someone "accuse" me of having a style took me aback. I wasn't sure exactly how I felt about it, but I didn't think I liked it. So I set out to explore the spectrum of "my style" developing 40 different ways to design the statement "You definitely have a style" with some slight variations on the verbage here and there.

These are the second set of poster in a series of 40 I assigned myself to explore the limits and possibilities of my own "style". Each one striving to express a style different from all the others. All images are either self-generated or drawn from Flickr's public domain search filter.

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21. TERMINAL-VELOCITY STYLE

22. UNDERLINED-ITALIC-SERIF-UPPERCASE-IS-HOT-RIGHT-NOW STYLE

23. OWL-DON'T-CARE STYLE

24. AMERICAN-FIILM-NOIR STYLE

25. SERIOUS-LITERATURE STYLE

26. PURE-GEOMETRY-PURE-GRADIENT STYLE

27. THE-CLOSEST-THING-TO-MY-DEFAULT-SETTING STYLE

28. MY-FAVORITE-GLITCH-EVER STYLE

29. LAYERED-RIGHTS-FREE-IMAGERY-HINTING-AT-THE-COLLISION-OF-SCIENCE-AND-RELIGION STYLE

30. SMUDGE-FROM-SOME-TEXT-I-HIGHLIGHTED-IN-A-BOOK STYLE

31. THE-BLUE-YOU-CAN'T-GET-IN-CMYK-MODE STYLE

32. COMPLETELY-BEARABLE-LIGHTNESS-OF-BEING STYLE

33. YOU-SHOULD-SEE-THE-PRINTED-VERSION-TO-GET-THE-FULL-EFFECT STYLE

34. FRAMING-A-WIDE-OPEN-LANDSCAPE STYLE

35. WITHOUT-IT-THERE-WOULD-BE-ANARCHY STYLE

36. SNEAKING-TO-THE-WILDERNESS-PAST-THE-RESERACH-LIBRARIAN STYLE

37. I-MADE-ALL-THE-SHAPES-FOR-ANOTHER-PROJECT-AND-WANTED-TO-REUSE-THEM STYLE

38.DOES-IT-HAVE-TO-BE-A-LIGHTBULB STYLE

39. RUSTED-RELIC STYLE (FEATURING THOUGHTS FROM 4 CREATIVE DUDES)

"For a student [a style is] a crime, for a young designer a stupidity, for an established designer a possibility. For a dead designer its a necessity."

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

"A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuited or preconceived."

PAUL RAND

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
GORE VIDAL

"Forget about style; worry about results."

BOBBY ORR

40. LETTERPRESS-CONCLUDING-ESSAY STYLE