The Art of CRAP Detection

For this blog post I decided to search for articles that had everything to do with graffiti and creative design. As I tend to always make a connection between graffiti and design. I know that graffiti holds a huge element of design, typography. Its not anyone's typography its the artist, not font picked from a computer but letters drawn from one's own hand. It doesn't get anymore personal than that. Being that a passion of mine is graphic design, a lot of the things I do somehow always correlate to my love of graffiti. Go figure.  

The articles that passed the CRAP test were from reliable sources, like that of a University and contained the theses of the scholar writing it. The articles were current enough, and were all usually from University's that were housing the theses' of these scholarly collegiate students. 

Bombing, Tagging, Writing: An Analysis of the Significance of Graffiti and Street Art, score 4
https://diigo.com/09fya9

The Writing on the Stall: Graffiti, Vandalism, and Social Expression, score 4
https://diigo.com/09fvat

Street Art & Graffiti Art: Developing an Understanding, score 4
https://diigo.com/09fvbj

Up On The Wall: How Working Walls Unlock Creative Insight, score 3
https://diigo.com/09fyab

The somewhat trustworthy articles were current enough but I felt were the opinion of the writer of the article. And the writer was questionable, also didn't have reliable resource to back up the findings. I also felt as reading thru that it contained a sales pitch of a product. 

The Process of Creativity, score 3
https://diigo.com/09fyac

Design Criticism and the Creative Process, score 2.5
https://diigo.com/09fyad

8 Secrets To Creative Thinking (Hint: Steal From Others), score 3
https://diigo.com/09fycr

Vector Polishing Techniques - Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials, score 3
https://diigo.com/09fyct

For the articles that I felt were untrustworthy they seemed to be trying to sell me something, like a book that I had to have to be able to create a great design. Or it the article was trying to entice me to join some master course that would have me designing or making money by freelancing in no time. 

How To Find Freelance Work With No Work Experience, score 0
https://diigo.com/09fya7

22 free ebooks for designers, score 1
https://diigo.com/09fycw

How to price logo design services, score 1
https://diigo.com/09fycx

Learn a new skill with over 3,000 tech training courses, score 0
https://diigo.com/09fyd0

Infographic below. 

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