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This has been bugging me for months. You see this style everywhere and I wondered if the illustration world was down to just one artist or if it just lost origi

This has been bugging me for months. You see this style everywhere and I wondered if the illustration world was down to just one artist or if it just lost originality. At least for use in marketing and branding I think it’s embarrassing to just do what everyone else is doing. How do you ever stand out?

User23 7y ago
The same thing has observably happened with architecture. I assume there is some kind of Illustrator type app for crapping out garish 1+5[1] urban buildings. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-america-s-new-apartment-buildings-all-look-the-same https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-ameri...
system2 7y ago
You can't stand out when 100 online articles are published by each SEO driven online magazine. You can't spend time to be original. Content goes away so rapidly and these illustrations are lost in the SEO oblivion. Blame the SEO tactics and consumers. No time to be original, no time to create once a very long article with hyper quality illustrations.
- tiborsaas 7y ago
  For me personally, Quanta magazine and Nautilus stand out with their unique style. Wired is also pretty distinct
chrisseaton 7y ago
> How do you ever stand out? I'm not sure that the point of corporate artwork is to 'stand out' in the first place. That's the case with a lot of corporate work.