Bandung Distro Graphics × Hipster Artisanal Revival

Craft badges on a polished, affluent brand look against loud, low-cost, scene-bound emblems.

From the research on Bandung Distro Graphics

Mix them and make something Bandung Distro Graphics Hipster Artisanal Revival

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Hipster Artisanal Revival, their arrangement from Hipster Artisanal Revival, the finish from Bandung Distro Graphics. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Bandung Distro Graphics Hipster Artisanal Revival

Type from Bandung Distro Graphics: Hand-lettering
All caps
Colour from Hipster Artisanal Revival: Monochrome
Limited spot colours
Form from Hipster Artisanal Revival: Emblems & badges
Geometric primitives
Composition from Hipster Artisanal Revival: Central symmetry
Radial & concentric
Surface from Bandung Distro Graphics: Photocopy & distress
Flat

The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Bandung Distro Graphics

Souvenir

Allerta Stencil, standing in for Hand-lettered and stencil street lettering

Text · Hipster Artisanal Revival

The trade-mark look of the 2007–2018 craft boom, which dressed new coffee roasters, breweries and stationers as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century firms. A centred one-ink badge holds a line-drawn icon, crossed arrows or an X with words in its quadrants, a triangle and an 'Est.' date for a firm a year old, in tracked sans capitals and a flowing script on kraft, cream or chalkboard. Stock 'Hipster Badges' made it a template; by 2012–13 trend reports and parodies called it overdone, and by 2018 it had matured into colourless, detailed monoline badges that left the arrows and scripts behind.

Jost; Hipster Artisanal Revival used Wisdom Script (James T. Edmondson, Lost Type, 2011), originally drawn for the 'Woods of Wisdom' poster series and Brothers (John Downer, Emigre, 1999), after a turn-of-the-century chromolithographed Cole Brothers circus letterhead

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Hipster Artisanal Revival, with a counter-accent from Bandung Distro Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Bandung Distro Graphics Hipster Artisanal Revival

#f1e8d6 ground · 36%
#1e1c1a ink · 14%
#8e2f25 accent · 18%
#f2b705 accent · 14%
#c4a27a accent · 10%
#d0211c accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f1e8d6;
  --ink: #1e1c1a;
  --accent-1: #8e2f25;
  --accent-2: #f2b705;
  --accent-3: #c4a27a;
  --accent-4: #d0211c;
  --font-display: "Allerta Stencil", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Jost", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Hipster Artisanal Revival: The hipster fashion and branding of the same years also borrowed pseudo-Native 'tribal' dress: Adrienne Keene's Native Appropriations (2010) answered the fashion for 'hipster headdresses' by noting that eagle feathers 'have to be earned', and in 2012 the Navajo Nation sued Urban Outfitters over goods sold under the 'Navajo' name. Keep to arrows, triangles and trade-mark devices; do not add feathered headdresses, war bonnets or 'tribal' and 'Navajo' patterns as a heritage shorthand.

The two styles

1993–present · Southeast Asia Bandung Distro Graphics Screenprinted T-shirt, jacket, sticker and poster graphics of Bandung's independent distros, which grew from the underground music scene's do-it-yourself band merchandise into a local clothing economy built on small runs, originality and scarcity. Sources describe the economy far better than the look, so the visual rules here (logo-led designs, band-style lettering, local-pride slogans, cluttered sticker-and-poster shop walls) are tentative.

A distressed rust-red oval badge on cream paper contains snowcapped mountains, pine trees, a lake, and a sun with radiating rays. The words “WILDSTONE SUPPLY” sit above crossed arrows, a small pine tree, and “EST. 2018.”

2007–2018 · North America, Global / networked Hipster Artisanal Revival The trade-mark look of the 2007–2018 craft boom, which dressed new coffee roasters, breweries and stationers as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century firms. A centred one-ink badge holds a line-drawn icon, crossed arrows or an X with words in its quadrants, a triangle and an 'Est.' date for a firm a year old, in tracked sans capitals and a flowing script on kraft, cream or chalkboard. Stock 'Hipster Badges' made it a template; by 2012–13 trend reports and parodies called it overdone, and by 2018 it had matured into colourless, detailed monoline badges that left the arrows and scripts behind.