Monday, April 15, 2013

Think With Your Heart (OR Face-palm through your skull)


Someone on my Facebook posted this. I nearly face-palmed so hard I it almost stopped my heart.  But then I started thinking with my brain- the organ in my body that actually does any thinking and started analyzing this design. The typography is bold and boring- looks like whoever designed this did not think at all. And if he or she did so with their heart it doesn't seem to work much better.  The designer was trying so hard to be clever but the concept is so dumb.  Looks like they just grabbed some random anatomy illustration of a head and shoulders- if you're going to convey someone thinking at least show them being thoughtful. The model in this drawing looks asleep or dead since it's probably a cadaver. The heart looks like a real heart with viens and arteries. The metaphorical heart that they are talking about is really the emotional 'try-toi-do the right thing kind of idea. Like every fantasy hero has to look inot his heart for the answer or the courage to slay the dragon or rescue the princess.

If I were designing this I would emphasize the emotional aspect instead of mismatched science because if you are going to mix bad science with stupid new agey heart chakra woowoo you're going to have a bad time.

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