7 niche design styles i'm extremely passionate about
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here is a video of me talking about a bunch of graphic design trends and graphic design styles i really like. most of them aren't actually design trends or styles they are just things i like. fooled you all! haha!! ahhh!!
hey i'm Elliot :) i'm a self-taught graphic designer based in sydney, australia. i make funny graphic design posters and film myself doing it. i also film myself talking about graphic design. welcome to this lovely, lovely community, sweet viewer. i am elliotisacoolguy, and we are Elliot
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CHAPTERS...
0:00 Hello
1:28 Australian Fish & Chip Shops
2:55 Bersletter-fication
4:30 Vintage Animal Lamps
5:24 Looney Tunes Vibes
6:56 Casetify Featured Artists
8:56 NBA Teams Social Media
11:08 Those 3D Billboards at Times Square
11:46 New Yorker Tote Bags
12:47 Nalgene Water Bottles
14:05 Type Specimens
14:57 Theatre Season Design
16:14 Office Privacy
17:05 Honourable Mentions
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Thanks so much for watching!
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I’m a full time designer and my workplace is so sterile and uninspired. It’s refreshing to see people who have fun with graphic design and don’t take it too seriously. I’m a firm believer that you’re limiting your design solutions when you don’t get outside the box and have a little fun.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
yes yes yes!!!
@SL3NDA
Жыл бұрын
I needed this video. Was on the verge of leaving the industry before I watched this video
@marcelkuhn5310
Жыл бұрын
Yes that’s true
this video just further proved that design is EVERYWHERE and i love how passionate you are about all of these. i’m going to start studying graphic design soon and this gave me so much inspiration!
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
bless this is so good to hear!! enjoy design school 🥰
so this is the first video of yours i’ve seen but i was like “oh i have a casetify case” and i looked and ITS LITERALLY YOURS so thank you
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
That’s SICK subconscious supporter 🥰
I’m really digging couch graphic design talk, perfect amount of informed but also really lovely casual delivery. 10/10
The Strayan Fish & Chip aesthetic is one of those designs I've loved my whole life without even realising it
the bersletterfication movement and new yorker tote bags? you are a man of taste ✨💅🏼
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
i love cool designers and smart consumerism
bro I've found your channel yesterday, and I've been loving your content. it's so very relaxing and enjoyable, and as someone that wants to be a designer, seeing your love for the art is just so great, it's like I found another one of me lmao. keep it up you got a great personality :)
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
oh bless this is so good to hear!! good luck on your design journey 🥰🥰
@onelia9152
Жыл бұрын
@@welliot Elliot can you bless me too? Need luck on my design journey as well
1:28 Australian fish and chip shop branding 2:55 Bersletter-fication 4:30 Vintage animal lamps 5:24 Looney Tunes vibes 6:56 Casetify featured artists 8:56 NBA teams social media 11:08 Those 3D billboards at Times Square 11:46 New Yorker tote bags 12:47 Nalgene water bottles 14:05 Type specimens 14:57 Theatre season design 16:14 Office privacy 17:05 Honourable mentions
@hinkenvarnamnet
Жыл бұрын
that was not 7
@JamesBeaucoup
Жыл бұрын
Loving that this list reads like it's the timestamps for a graphic design tutorial
berslettersification is genuinely going to be written about in many years
@whitesebi
Жыл бұрын
also I feel like the looney tunes is the younger cousin of the happy-go-lucky proto-disney walking-in-big-strides characters from last year
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
seb mate you are bang on the money
@chriscarfolite4849
Жыл бұрын
I'm just seeing a modern take on Sister Corita Kent
@whitesebi
Жыл бұрын
@@chriscarfolite4849 "just"
I am an aspiring entomologist, so in my world type specimen means the specimen that was used to describe a new species, the definitional specimen. I am so happy that type specimen is used in the design world for like a definitional collection of how to use type. It feels like the funniest word play to me :)
@spudrina
Жыл бұрын
yeah i used to work at a natural history museum and it threw me for a sec lol
@JamesBeaucoup
Жыл бұрын
You're so right it's such a good bit of wordplay, we just switch the subject around in our heads and it completely changes the meaning
I love how there's no pretension in this commentary, it's all fun and good vibes. Subscribed! 🌞
My work is very dull and sterile, I love seeing designers and artists talk about their work because it's a great escape for me, and I live this positivity! So mang videos are so negative and talk about how much they hate certain designs, but this is such a beautiful display of passion! It brightens my day!
Loved the video! I didn't even notice that there were more than 7 until near the very end, lol. (Also, since you liked the bus mascot you may want to look into "yuru-chara" (japanese mascots), they make them for absolutely everything and the designs tend to be quite bold and colorful)
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
omg there is so much potential here
"I've been trying to design all day and I haven't done anything" Is such a relatable mood 😅
Personal niche design style obsession if mine is these decal stickers I sometimes see on dry cleaners, tailors, and nail salons that look like they're from the 60's-70's. I have no fucking clue what the art style is but I adore it.
I really enjoy when my favorite creators just do talk videos! Because even though I really love the work that they do, I also just enjoy their personality. And sometimes I don’t have full brain power to fully focus on something they’re making but I still wanna watch a video from them because I like them as a person but this allows me to do so more passively lol so these are perfect to me!!
The New Yorker Tote bags kinda pay for themselves through self advertising. They act as walking billboards because people love to just throw anything into a tote bag and taking it out.
Type Specimens x100000 I love them, they are done to catch attention, with care, by people who literally know the type the best. They're a great source of inspiration.
i really vibe with the fish and chip aesthetic. i'm not a designer and all but to me it seems to be prevalent in a lot of like maybe 70s to 90s design in cheaper restaurants, cafes and such, as well as on products and magazines, posters, labels and things made at that time. there's a lot of black, white, primary colours and evergreen. and recently it's coming back. primary blue and white has been really all over (see: the band the 1975's rebranding). i currently live in South Korea and it's really popular here, alongside this kind of cheap and 'crappy' retro design style, they call it 'newtro' here. new retro. see also: the bottle for an energy drink called pocari sweat that hasn't changed in decades and its kind of cool again. alongside that there's a lot of stylized and sophisticated reinterpretations of retro too. so interesting!
the fish n chips design reminded me of NYC chinese takeout signs. Something about the primary colors and weirdly bespoke type is super powerful
Just got recommended your videos for the first time ever (like I have it in another tab running as I type this), and I went to your channel to see if the rest of your content is graphic design, and this video said it "posted 1 minute ago." This feels like fate lol, loving the content already :)
@Tara-pp1xo
Жыл бұрын
Also the "color range" tip from your last video just changed my life, I knew they must be a way to select by color!!
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
hell yeah welcome to the ELLIOT COMMUNITY 🥰👍
Bursletterfication feels like a bite out of corita kent. Glad to see her spirit coming into the zeitgeist again
wow, these are all great! I really enjoy your humor, the pacing at which topics are spoken about, and most of all, niche things for me to think about and how my Special Interests inform the niche design styles i'm into right now. It's nice to have fun with graphic design, and to see graphic designers as humans with depth. Great video
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
thanks so much!!! so glad people are enjoying this slower style of video hehe i love making these!
genuinely loving your content, so glad to have found your channel :')
I just found your channel and I LOVE it. Your personality, the styles and casual feel of it all is very relaxing and fun.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!! Too kind!!
loved the vibe of this video so when you mentioned you had a casetify collection i had to go check it out. couldn't believe when i saw the one phone case ive been obsessing over for the last year or so was yours
Thank for that video! I got lots of inspiration and also you made me think about what are design styles I'm passionate. Cool to think outside of your niche.
i love watching videos of people talking about something they're passionate about! pls do more :))
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
more to come!!
The delayed bleep in the intro is sending me to Mars right now on this Sunday afternoon. Incredible.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
i really hope it never gets old
Well, that was fun and chill and informative... Gladly subscribed!
your editing and humor is so on point. Im a video editor but may have do go into graphic design cuz of you
hey elliot!!! thank you for this video! it was very inspiring to see others works and how they exist in different medias, especially from your perspective! I love your videos, hope you get out of this block because i've been there and its not easy! never got the chance to actually do a design chef (because of work and university), but they are veryyyyy interesting to watch and i think that more merch design chef (like the water bottle one) would be really fun! also really enjoyed your last couch video (the design process one) because it's nice to see more like projectual and creative thoughts like that! thanks for doing videos here, they're really nice!! :]
Been following your work since the dribbble days and just found out you're doing youtube, and let me say: you're killing with the content, the perfect mix between the culture dump, niche stuff and the popular content trends.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
oh bless thanks so much for sticking around!! appreciate it 🥰🥰
love of primary colours unite!!!! ❤💛💙 just found you today and it's so cool to see a sydney based graphic designer! I'm aspiring to be one myself which is exciting :)
Super with you on the NBA social designs. So much content, yet so much quality. And, yea, sports in general has always felt top of the heap, in its own way.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
soooo much content! some of the new season graphics teams are pushing out are so sick... the forefront of design evolution 😤😤😤😤
@Andre-md1oh
Жыл бұрын
it was such a fascinating take
Love your videos, a alternating schedule sounds great!
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
gonna make a design with me vid this week!! nice to mix it up
love this. every entertaining and pleasant for my night off
always a good time when an elliot video comes out
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
appreciate it 🥰
Dude, there is a place called very good falafel in brunswick that just gets me every time I see it. Aussie food house branding is the bomb diggity
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
i think i have walked past that very place!! you are too right
Your tutorials have been my go-to resource for refining my design skills. The practical tips and attention to detail have been instrumental in my growth as a designer.
nice stuff elliot. been following you for some years now, but you didn't come up in my ig feed for some time now, and came back to see you doing videos. cool stuff, never stop.
this video is so genuinely good hahahah great easy watch. what a chill graphic design dude!
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
thank you raven!!!
Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on these design styles. I can tell you see the design choices in everything that surrounds you.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
Refreshing! This vid is unlike most design videos I’ve seen.
Loved this video and its format!
Not really sure why this popped up on my home page, but i thouroughly enjoyed it! Framing the video with you in the corner somehow made it so much more personal despite the distance from the camera, it made me feel like i was sitting across from you in the same room. Not something i see on youtube all that often, but super visually interesting and sets you apart!
please make more of these!! am aching for graphic design inspiration and news delivered really FUNNILY
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
of course!! more to come!!
I love how you kept my attention throughout the video while taking only 20% of frame space❤
Also I like the jazz sounds so chilled
Fit is on point Elliot
This is really refreshing content. Just “all these things are really neat” and that’s the video. Delightful.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
yes yes yes!! exactly what it's meant to be!! bless
I have no experience with design and just stumbled across this video, but it was super fun and I'd love to see more!
I enjoyed the crap out of this video. You make me smile when I'm tired and uninspired. There's a very limited number of people out there equipped with the ability to do that, so that's something. Really happy I stumbled upon your channel 🫂
How come I’ve just found this channel now? The accent, the music, the topics, mmmm chefs kiss! Where have you been all my life elliotsacoolguy?
Elliot, you should do a podcast. I would definitely listen to it happily :) Hearing people talk about what they like is very enjoyable and I like your humor hahaha
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
hahaha look these vids basically are podcasts at this rate but maybe at 100k subs??? maybe?!?!?!
Loved this video man, feels like alot of these styles get very expressionist?? Covid did a number on all of us lol. Would love to see more of these funky micro-movements.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
more to come for sureeeeee
So happy i ran across your channel! Really entertaining content :)
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
thank you!!!
Oh god 6:30 is a kind of 1980s fever dream for those of us that old to remember. The character is called "Noseybonk" and not too surprisingly was from a kids show, in the UK.
Now that's a channel name I can get behind.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
a fellow 2 Ls 1 T lesgoooooo
wow this is my first design video ever and i like how simple and interesting you talk about it dude you are my new crash 🥺
love to see another primary colour stan !!!!!!
Elliot: Guess who’s still going through a bit of creative block? Me: *raises both hands while crying internally* 🙋🏽♀️🥹
1. Thanks for existing 2. REI has some brazy styles going on lately. Came to mind during the Nalgene segment
the wizards logo is just chefs kiss for me
I'm 6th months late but the fingers coming off his hand/body when he introduces a new style is sending me
I fucking love this content. Good observation on these styles man. ❤
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
Cheers!
Love your passion for design and finding inspiration all around you. Glad to see Bersletters is getting the recognition. Side note, What is the black object on top of your shelf in the background?
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
thank you!! that is a cushion by @tiny.fuzz on insta :)
Great vid so true bout fish and chips signs, subbed cause fellow sydsider ❤
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
i love how relatable the fish and chips stuff is... so many fans ... so good
i feel so seen and validated to know you are a theatre kid.
Hey Elliot! I just recently found your channel and have been really enjoying your work both here and on Instagram :) Your video got me thinking about other niche design styles that I'd seen in my life and I realized how much I enjoyed seeing how ski trail maps are presented. Something about the consistent trail ratings (green circle, blue square, black diamond) always being present across totally different maps strikes me as interesting, and I like guessing at the designers choices for the sidebar, font and legend. Do the fonts follow the trails, or are they perpendicular? Are there clouds in the sky? Did they plop a bunch of minimal vector trees everywhere or is it more realistic? I think a lot of decisions are based on legibility, but I bet there's a ton of aesthetic choices to be made as well. Anyways I'm rambling but thanks for the food for thought! Great video
Just found you and I'm hooked!
The point about the lakers is literally so interesting and I’ve never noticed
bers letters deserves all the recognition her stuff is so awsome
8:55 yessss! I go to teams I don’t care about and just admire their socials. My hometeam cavs are killing it rn!
This video made me so happy
this video hits the spot
I know nothing about graphic design, I’m an art and design student but my only experience with it was a GD history course I took freshman year. But I gotta say, I find GD so fucking cool and interesting and there are so many totally unique and eyecatching amazing styles out there that I really adore. I think my current favorite designer is Qingyu wu, I had to do a project on her and her work is just so striking and interesting and her color palettes are so cool. Can’t recommend her work enough
Great stuff as always Elliot. Love the content as always. Side note, love your frames (glasses), where did you get them? If you don’t mind sharing. Thanks.
awesome stuf, can't wait for more
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
more to come!!
I'm new to your channel but I can affirm that you, elliot, are in fact a cool guy and I like to subscribe to cool people
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
you're a legend, pissqueen
FINALLY someone feels the same thing for the fish and chips shop signs
This is the content I need: "The Lakers use a SERIF font."
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
its the little things yknow
YOU literally motivates me rn to continue to learn GD (self-taught) likeeeee whatttttt goosebupms
Love the DESIGN Attitude 😊
I had one of those toucan lamps at our old house before we moved. It was in the exact blue and pink colors too lol
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
i am immensely jealous!!
watching this with an elliot phone case!!
crazy to find a wizard's fan in the wild, love the NBAs growth in Aus
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha look there aren’t many thats for sure!!
I used to have the tucan lamp!!
I was so shocked to see Nalgene water bottles pop up on the screen lmao I thought everybody was sleeping on those but apparently there's more people that like that kind of vibe.
I love this so much.
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
you're a legend
this is the channel that I have been looking for
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
welcome home
@paysonwick
Жыл бұрын
Thanks already lounging on the couch
this video will probably be the reason why ill actually step out of my house to look around for inspo
Now you mention it, the masked singer should’ve definitely made the actual list
I think it's hilarious how the bleep is always a bit later than the cuss. Genius!
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
it'll never get old i swear i swear
this was the first (and only so far) video ive seen from you but pLEASE for the love of god do merch/redbubble ANYTHING PLEASE i want to purchase your great taste and stellar attitude
im trying really hard to watch this video normally but i cant get over the fact you are dressed in minion colors
camel cigarette packaging id a big one for me! the colour and the different animals they put on there are amazing. makes me forget the cancer.
this was great
I was envisioning my own local fish and chip shop when he was describing them and the shock I got when he put my local fish and chip shop on the video was crazy. Ig we live near each other lol
I’m a phone case designer at Casetify’s biggest competitor and I agree with you, phone case design is fascinating! Thanks for the video, it was fun
@welliot
Жыл бұрын
glad you enjoyed!!