No cap
Please do not fuck the silicon valley corporate neoliberal brutalism artstyle girl
Wooooow. My elementary school PowerPoint presentations are creeping back into memory all of a sudden.
More proof that Americans have just wanted to grill since inception
I like it because it's super easy but bosses think it is hard. I've definitely used similar styles to meet project deadlines when I don't have enough time to make something good.
So it's slapdash work that successfully fools tasteless boors? Kudos for making it work for you, but it'll hopefully die away in a truly free world.
Yes, actually - I know a few people in the industry and they've basically agreed that the entire reason this style exists is because someone will come to your design firm and say "Hey, I've got this thing I need designed ASAP, here's my budget", and said budget is way too small to make something actually good in as short of a timeframe as they give you. Doubly so if they're going to your competitors as well and fishing for results from them too. So you slap together some stupid bullshit that looks fine, trying to get a good enough result back to the client before your competitors do, hoping they go with yours for the finished product.
And I mean, "cheap, looks fine to advertising wonks, can be put together in a hurry"? Yeah that pretty much perfectly defines this art style.
The art of the proletariat when pressed on time in the service of a boss
Yes in the same way bread and butter is a proletarian food
I always thought there must be something I was missing to this style, some craft to the design that my pleb brain couldn’t appreciate. Trying to imitate it always felt too simple.
I’m glad to hear that it’s just easy to do.
Nope, if you have a copy of Illustrator and know how to use grids then you're pretty much all set! Everytime I throw something like this together my employers are impressed and I die a little more inside.
It looks like early 20s Russian Futurism decayed into trash through multiple layers of Corporate art design.
I really don't know art terms so I'll take your word for it. The corporate part feels right since it reminds me of google.
This Memphis stuff looks cute ngl. Like the colors and odd shapes.
This would be correct but it really came about because it’s the easiest thing to do in illustrator
Can't tell if this is an art style or play on words. Image search isn't helping but if it's the latter maybe it's for the best lol.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-cartoons-are-here-to-protect-you-from-big-tech/
Liked the article, a shame the corporate world uses it as a sheep skin to get closer to the flock. Is the rest of the site good too?
AIGA is basically a trade association for graphic designers, so I doubt you'll find much leftist critique there. Everyone I've met at their events has been super LinkedIn-core, but it's a helpful group if you're looking for design work.
Time for new javascript framework #255 with 8 minute SCSS compilation time and 800000 Node dependency.
Technocrats don't have style, they have programming.
