Dave Feroe Design
What if your WORK is
(Not Safe For Work)
NSFW?
NSFW party promotion graphics are decidedly risque. As a result of my work as UX and graphic designer for the award winning adult online community Kasidie.com, I have been hired as consultant and contractor by any number of clubs, party promoters, and entrepreneurial hedonists to create event graphics for a wide variety of clubs and events nationwide.
Event graphics for adult entertainments have a style requirement that is unique, fun, glitzy and sexy, but almost never pornographic. Sexy and fun is one thing, but there is a line past which I'm not professionally comfortable.
A few thoughts about the politics and the business of pleasure...
Design does not work if it ignores demographic reality, and commercial interface design is not activism, it's sales... it's democratic. We must design aesthetics, experiences and interfaces specifically for the users.
Obviously these event graphics feature a preponderance of women, and not so many guys. Two things:
#1: The swinger community is universally reported to be matriarchal. If there are no women, there are no swingers... women have all of the power.
And #2: For marketing purposes, the grace of the female form is the draw... and men are the target demographic (and couples to a slightly lesser degree). These events are almost always absolutely free for women, and very expensive for men... follow this mathematical formula and the prevalence of the female form starts to make a whole lot of sense.