With the 25th anniversary of the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig just behind us and inspired by a few friends who posted their amazing photos as young, beautiful goths, I’ve been thinking about the design aspects of the ‘dark’ culture lately. I’m not a fully-grown goth myself but I can’t say there isn’t something about the aesthetics of that scene that I don’t admire enormously. Now before I go on, let’s not get too hung up on terminology here. As with other scenes, genres, lifestyles – whatever you wanna call it – there are labels that some people embrace while others get upset over. I won’t pretend I know much about the goth culture apart from the fact that there is so much beauty in it! And that’s what this blog is all about.
by designmarie
13 reasons why I’m a goth at heart
- Subcultures, Typography
- A Gothique Time, Alchemy Gothic, Alte Schwabacher, bats, beauty, black, black cats, Black Flag, Black Friday, blackletter, castle, cat, cats, cemetery, cloak, colour, creativity, design, design blog, East Germany, fairytale, Flesh Wound, flying foxes, GDR, German Democratic Republic, gif, goth, gothic, goths, Grufti, iThornet, jewellery, Kiszkiloszki, lace, lifestyle, London, medieval, medieval castle, Middle Saxony Text, nocturnal, old English, Ossie, Professor Snape, san-serif, scene, Schwarzkittel, Severus Snape, Sisters of Mercy, skeleton, skull, The Cure, Trade Gothic, type, typeface, Typography, vampire, velvet, Victorian, Victorian cemeteries, Wartburg, Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Wednesday Addams, WGT, witchcraft
- 4 Comments