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Flat trend? Flat design has been around for decades, i.e. Josef Muller Brockmann
by colmvp 14y ago
Flat trend? Flat design has been around for decades, i.e. Josef Muller Brockmann
- ericb 14y agoSo have argyle sweaters, but if an influx of new people started wearing argyle we could still have a debate about whether we liked the argyle sweater trend.
- swah 14y agoIts ok in moderation though, like.. argyle socks.
- pifflesnort 14y agoJosef Muller Brockmann wasn't designing discoverable interactive UIs, he was designing for print. There's a difference, and flat design advocates would do us all a favor if they'd try to remember it.
- colmvp 14y agoThe fact that he wasn't designing for web doesn't mean his style (or other creatives for that matter) didn't influence the medium. Not to mention there is nothing that says a flat style is superior given that there are so many additional factors in web analytics.
- lhnn 14y agoCome now, you know the parent meant "flat trend in computer UI". This isn't a discussion about art.
- bluekeybox 14y agoOr earlier: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/seeking-meaning-in-the-earliest-.html http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/seeking-meanin...
- coldtea 14y agoThe two statements are orthogonal. Eighties electro music has also been around for decades, but 5-6 years back in made a comeback.