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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1970545, member: 19065&quot;]I prefer the focus to be on the original vignette and that they avoid gratuitous design flourishes. The addition of colors and other graphics only makes the sheet look more busy and the design choked. In recent years you notice that art and design has taken on heavy graphic line treatments, overprints and intricate lace-like additions to everything in fashion, art, illustration, computer graphics in TV commercials, movies, animation, etc. It seems the trend is that if you don&#039;t add it it&#039;s not attractive enough. In the past T-shirts were simply printed front, back and maybe a sleeve, now they are printed in every position, over-printed, decorated to the hilt. Tattoos and so-called &quot;body-art&quot; are the same excess of decoration to an already elegant design, the natural human form. Apply too many tats to your skin and just like mixing all the colors in the rainbow you get mud. This, by the way, I don&#039;t express as a matter of subjectivity. Personal aesthetics are just that, personal and up to the individual. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Entire schools of design once emerged at the end of the 19th century to wipe away excessive gilt and baroque like decorative design, but in terms of these intaglio vignettes, already deeply thought out and intricate, to add modern flourishes and color around them is often to put the pig in the pearl necklace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Permit this further aside... There is a current world-wide trend amongst art museum installation design and curation in which we find these institutions altering the once static white walls of the galleries to color coded zones of a given exhibition or paired with themes in the paintings put on display. I recently saw a group of beach, ocean and river scenes in French Impressionist paintings that were all grouped together in one room and placed on blue walls... you know, because water is blue! It was so absurd! The next room was purple and dealt with nudes, another orange, another yellow and each fit someone&#039;s idea of segregating concepts by a singular idea of what color meant, out of time, out of place, across another culture. It was such a waste to try to look at paintings booming with color because the surrounding walls glow in dim galleries influencing the viewers eye and what you see in the original master paintings. This is not something being done by just some no-name museum, but by the leading institutions of art. White walls may be boring but what they are not is intrusive to the pictures themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this is my thinking and my feelings about overly decorative Souvenir cards, which seem to be riding the same wave of trend in applying designs to any open space it can be fit into, whether it helps the sheet or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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