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Is anybody else super tired of this aesthetic: https://assets.website-files.com/5f10771cbfea70224f1ce526/5f21dd68f36fe25cb3bdc872_illustration_1.png https://as
by ralusek 5y ago
Is anybody else super tired of this aesthetic:
https://assets.website-files.com/5f10771cbfea70224f1ce526/5f21dd68f36fe25cb3bdc872_illustration_1.png https://assets.website-files.com/5f10771cbfea70224f1ce526/5f...
I know companies all jump on design bandwagons, but this one of these hideous illustrations of amorphous blob people is not only one that every company has been riding for the last few years, but should have never existed in the first place.
Not to mention the egregious usage of 90s HTML hyperlink blue. I get it, that ugly is ironic and cool, etc, but I'd really like to just pass through this phase of ironically self-aware, ugly design.
- superasn 5y agoAt least their images are connected to the message somehow. Most of the sites I see using this nowadays just slap them there like font icons, i.e. just to look cool with the graphic having absolutely no relation to the text.
- yrral 5y agoI recently learned this has become a meme and is called (amongst other names) "globohomo" art style. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-style https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-sty...
- mbo 5y agoA more politically correct name suggested by Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute is "Corporate Memphis": https://cari.institute/aesthetics/corporate-memphis https://cari.institute/aesthetics/corporate-memphis
- Tepix 5y ago"globohomo" meaning "globalized homogenization". Nothing to be offended by.
- ncmncm 5y agoAlmost as tired of as of "incredibly". Thus, incredibly, deeply, profoundly tired of. This use is what linguists call a "generic intensifier". It is somewhat less bad than misused "exponentially" or "literally".