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A little OT, but is there a name for that design style that Google is using here? I'm talking about the bearded dude at the top of the article, with glasses and
by paganel 4y ago
A little OT, but is there a name for that design style that Google is using here? I'm talking about the bearded dude at the top of the article, with glasses and a phone in his hand.
I've seen it more and more during the last few years, from ads around the city I live in to hipsterish magazines. There's something about it that has started bugging me the wrong way, I find it kind of infantilising but at the same time trying to "sell" me something as an adult (an insurance product, a "life is good" vibe because goofy drawings, that sort of thing). Or maybe I'm seeing too much into it.
Later edit: I'm talking about visuals like this one [1], which, looking at it again, I find quite similar in style to the one Google is using (hence my question, there must be a trend or something).
[1] https://www.reginamaria.ro/sites/default/files/inline-images/IMGL0456.JPG https://www.reginamaria.ro/sites/default/files/inline-images...
- spaceman_2020 4y agoCorporate Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
- gempir 4y agoCorporate Art Style, also referred to as Big Tech Art Style, Globohomo Art Style and Corporate Memphis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-style https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-sty...
- spaceman_2020 4y agoGlobohomo Art Style lol. That’s what I’ll call it from now on.
- civilized 4y agoThe name seems a gift to right-wing critics.
- rchaud 4y agogeneric stock art and iconography has right-wing critics?
- mardifoufs 4y agoGlobohomo means global homogeneity, even if some right wingers seem to think it means...something else lol
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- asddubs 4y agoI've known it as alegria, see also this subreddit collecting examples: https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckalegriaart/ https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckalegriaart/
- dilap 4y agoIt's reminiscent of socialist realism -- with a modern, tech twist. The favored art-style of woke companies. It's their vision of utopia: a rainbow of skin tones, but everyone belonging to the same global monoculture.
- cma 4y agoReminds me of the hyper capitalist predecessor to corporate memphis: http://clipart-library.com/data_images/177477.png http://clipart-library.com/data_images/177477.png Guys in baggy suits and ties running through fields. You probably remember it from things like manual covers of scanners and stuff.
- phist_mcgee 4y agoThere's something very ominous about this kind of art.
- emptyparadise 4y agoI'd rather look at socialist realism. Soviet propaganda feels a lot more genuine than these weird corporate caricatures.
- the_omegist 4y agoMore genuine and with some positive archetypes of what was considered a "perfect" goal towards which society and the individual should aim for.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoWell at least we made it past the white woman eating salad stock-photo phase