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Brushed Metal and Glow is the new Individualized Helvetica Nameplate on Stark White Paper (Just Like Everyone Else). It's hopelessly derivative and is rapidly h
by tel 16y ago
Brushed Metal and Glow is the new Individualized Helvetica Nameplate on Stark White Paper (Just Like Everyone Else). It's hopelessly derivative and is rapidly having its meaning and impact sucked dry. It's also a pretty effective signal for (1) I hired a designer because (2) this is a high quality Mac/iOS application.
I don't really have a problem with it and it kicks the pants off an icon that didn't get that kind of workup in terms of visceral Polish, but as others have noted, it pretty much tells no story of the app at all. I'm not even interested enough to click on their header and learn.
That's fine though. Commodity design doesn't have to have an impact, and I prefer a world where commodity design is valuable and practiced over one where people just don't care.
- spiralganglion 16y agoI would prefer a world where people take risks attempting to forge their iconography with meaning at the expense of stylistic visual polish, to one where hollow aesthetics are seen as an alternative to ugliness.
- tel 16y agoAs would I, but the harsh reality seems to be that the demand is not direct enough to support that kind of effort. That intangible "passion" is not extrinsically motivated, and mass audience isn't willing to forgo convenience in the search of it.