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30 Honest Illustrations About The Things That Are Wrong With Today’s Society By John Holcroft
There's something very disturbing about John Holcroft's work, but in a very good way. Checking out his cool drawings, you can't help but feel as if you're seeing something forbidden. The fragility of the system, the obscurity of your career; the lack of romance in today's world. The characters' passions are their torture and there's only one way out - embracing the absurdity of the modern world. Working from a studio near Sheffield, UK, Holcroft manages to connect two completely different eras. Drawing inspiration from 1950s screen print posters, he creates satirical illustrations that deliver a great social commentary on the things that are wrong with our society.
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"My work is concept rather than character based," Holcroft told Bored Panda after being asked if he ever feels like a character in one of his pieces. "However, when working on an illustration whether it's a commission for a publication or a self-promotional piece I imagine what it's like to be in the situation of the concept. It helps to communicate to the reader more if they can related to the person in the image."
It shows that us women work a lot harder then men but get lower respect
"My biggest concerns about society are that we are too reliant on devices to the extent of obsession," the artist said. "There is also a large proportion of young people that have 'dumbed down' and see platforms like YouTube as a new standard in entertainment, watching mindless drivel by people who either just want to be famous or want to viewing figures for ad revenue. This has become acceptable and the norm."
"How some people can be easily lead to believe things that the media tell them, whether it be about elections or referendums some people believe what they read on social media and tabloid newspapers instead of seeking out the facts."
Despite all the grim colors in his creative drawings, Holcroft likes to think he's optimistic, believing that everything's gonna be OK regarding such social problems like climate change. "But the pessimistic side of me gets restless when I don't see very much movement politically. My biggest frustration is that little people like me and you don’t have a voice, we are shouting at the governments of the world to do something, millions of us with out metaphoric megaphones shouting ‘the world is in crisis, what are you doing about it?’. All while large corporations are profiting on the pollution without a care in the world."
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The artist also tries not to get involved in anything religious or something that may offend others, unless it's for a really good cause. "The reason being, primarily this is how I make my living and I produce show pieces to attract work and I don’t thing I will be very popular if I alienate my potential clients. Although magazine articles tend to cover interesting subject matters they don’t like to upset their readership."
This one strikes me as a sentiment on pollution- the scientists are trying to push global warming into reverse
Thank you, because I was confused as to why scientists were depicted as going backwards.
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the more advance we are the most we want to go backward… like the anti-vaxxer who refuser modern science and prefer treat people with garlic and lemon juice
I come from a family with a religion that has strict rules. (Not Jehovah's Witness) One of the rules is no needles inserted into your body. Period. No shots. No tattoos. No acupuncture. Nothing. My mom and dad are sane people and don't think they cause autism or anything stupid like that. My gma thinks that stuff, but she's a whole different deal. I told her that Russia was poisoning the US through coke and she freaked out. I'm laughing and she's like "Where'd you here that" and I asked her if she'd seen the news lately and she believed me until I told her I was just kidding. She's the whole autism and essential oils kind of person. Anyways, I'm healthy and always have been. I'm not trying to cause a big thing but I just thought it would be good to hear he other side of things and that all people not vaccinated aren't absolutely insane.
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Not only Trump + friends, remember the millions of ignorant twats who voted for him?
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Good one. According to scientists and the UN, we have until 2030 (could be earlier, could be later) to reverse climate change. After that, there's no turning back.
I too personally believe that earth is on top of a gear shifter. It’s why it’s not flat and why earthquakes happen when bumpy
Trying to reverse the damage we have already done, simple.
an economy based solely on sales (and not service or production) will fall like a row of dominoes
My opinion is that he’s looking to pills to fix his problem and not finding the answers there. Maybe it’s not about modern medicine as much as it is about people expecting pills to cure-all for certain things but not putting in the real world work. The pill is empty because it didn’t solve their problem. Maybe?
This is the unintended consequence of the Genome Project on the nature vs nurture argument. Suddenly everyone started thinking “There’s a gene for that” about every aspect of human variation, including those that are shaped more by environment. Therefore, if someone is deemed aberrant, it’s automatically attributed to genetics, rather than the neglect and/or brutality they may have had to survive from childhood. This, in turn, can lead to labeling, which means society automatically writes them off as not worthy of our time and attention, and basically disposes of them through the school to prison pipeline—-strong and immobilizing shackles, indeed.
Note: this post originally had 57 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Just the usual stuffs we see in every other "what's the problem with the world from my armchair" post.
Yes and no. The messages might be the same, but the manner of relaying it seems quite unusual to me.
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We get it. Technology bad, phones bad, social media bad. I've seen this a million times before. It would be nice to see other issues than technology portrayed in these sort of things.
Yes and how about all of the good things technology / social media has enabled us to do and create? Why does everything have to be so sad and depressing?
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Another moderately talented graphic designer with the world outlook of a 13 year-old. Trite and boring.
they are so true. some of them have the same message, but its good because people keep trying to get the message through but it won't work, so if the message is everywhere it might work. i appreciate this page
Two things stand out to me - the person who drew these pictures is probably American and a feminist. Yes, it's the same things over and over again but a minority of people mention that a lot of these things can be good if you have balace.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this artist leans to the left on the political spectrum....
I felt they were more like "old man yels at cloud".
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Thing is ... technology is always depicted as a problem ALONE. No one ever thought about the importance of, let's say, safe and clean water, delivered to your house anytime in any amount you might want? Safe food, as major urban areas can't really provide locally, rely on transportation of a lot of stuff - even if any unneeded or preventable waste of food is taken out of the examination. Technology actually enables stuff like basic human rights to be relevant and put in power, and much, much more. It's the human's relation to it, the strictly economy-based decision made about technologie's use and scale, and that this is made above the engineer's heads that, what causes major problems.
hey, the illustrations are good. food for thought, but i couldn't browse through them all. people who think everybody else need every single panel to be thoroughly explained by their smartass minds are way too annoying.
There's also the argument that this is just how society has evolved. Are there problems, absolutely! But nagging about social media and technology is pointless. When I was younger, I had better toys than my parents and their parents. We're constantly evolving. That's my take on the technology aspect of it.
Why were most of my comments deleted? They don't even show being there at all as if I never made a post.
Just the usual stuffs we see in every other "what's the problem with the world from my armchair" post.
Yes and no. The messages might be the same, but the manner of relaying it seems quite unusual to me.
Load More Replies... We get it. Technology bad, phones bad, social media bad. I've seen this a million times before. It would be nice to see other issues than technology portrayed in these sort of things.
Yes and how about all of the good things technology / social media has enabled us to do and create? Why does everything have to be so sad and depressing?
Load More Replies... Another moderately talented graphic designer with the world outlook of a 13 year-old. Trite and boring.
they are so true. some of them have the same message, but its good because people keep trying to get the message through but it won't work, so if the message is everywhere it might work. i appreciate this page
Two things stand out to me - the person who drew these pictures is probably American and a feminist. Yes, it's the same things over and over again but a minority of people mention that a lot of these things can be good if you have balace.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this artist leans to the left on the political spectrum....
I felt they were more like "old man yels at cloud".
Load More Replies... Thing is ... technology is always depicted as a problem ALONE. No one ever thought about the importance of, let's say, safe and clean water, delivered to your house anytime in any amount you might want? Safe food, as major urban areas can't really provide locally, rely on transportation of a lot of stuff - even if any unneeded or preventable waste of food is taken out of the examination. Technology actually enables stuff like basic human rights to be relevant and put in power, and much, much more. It's the human's relation to it, the strictly economy-based decision made about technologie's use and scale, and that this is made above the engineer's heads that, what causes major problems.
hey, the illustrations are good. food for thought, but i couldn't browse through them all. people who think everybody else need every single panel to be thoroughly explained by their smartass minds are way too annoying.
There's also the argument that this is just how society has evolved. Are there problems, absolutely! But nagging about social media and technology is pointless. When I was younger, I had better toys than my parents and their parents. We're constantly evolving. That's my take on the technology aspect of it.
Why were most of my comments deleted? They don't even show being there at all as if I never made a post.
