Can't wait for the subtle, inadvertent emotional malady that is a generation raised on faceless (and legless!) bubble people cartoons.
Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects
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#93Why does the “Calendar Image Illustration” have six-day weeks? https://iradesign.io/illustrations/backgrounds
I think it's a fine illustration of the concept of calendar?
For a tiny icon it would have been a reasonable compromise in interest of readability at low resolution, but here it just comes across as a sloppy mistake.
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#94Sorry to be a Scrooge, but I wish people would stop doing this. It's hard enough to make a living as an illustrator in the age of digital photography and photobashing without having to compete with generic (which I mean both descriptively and—sorry—pejoratively) illustration libraries. This stuff undermines the discipline and suggests that its skills are easily acquired and the work is easily done, so there's no reas…
I regret that I can only upvote this once. Art is my job and I feel much the same way. I have managed to find a set of clients whose desires are better met by custom art with a distinct personal style but, y'know, it'd be nice if "shitting out some Corporate Memphis at a price point appropriate to a startup sitting on piles of VC money" was an option for me and a bunch of other illustrators too. We got bills to pay.
For real. I'm glad to hear you've managed to carve out a niche!
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#95Anyone else find it odd that the colors are (somewhat) customizable, but the skin tones aren't? I know that there's more to making a set of illustrations like this properly inclusive beyond just skin tone, but that seems like a strange omission given that the feature was already created.
The color customization didn't seem to work when I tried it. Perhaps that's just a custom feature he's offering. When selecting, nothing changes.
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#96Why does every Silicon Valley company have these creepy looking people on their websites?
It's simpler and a smaller download than the iStockPhoto of yester-decade.
Criticism would be more constructive however, if it included an example of something better.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or ya know, since all these sites want basically the same look you could start a community illustration library the sources contributions from the body of companies that want this kind of look to everyone involved's mutual benefit. What value are you gaining by having 20 companies pay 20 designers to make the same generic uninspired designs because the clients want it to "look like $every_other_tech_company.?"
Haha, not a bad idea! > What value are you gaining by having 20 companies pay 20 designers to make the same generic uninspired designs because the clients want it to "look like $every_other_tech_company.?" You're employing people, which has some value to an ostensibly equitable society (lord knows most jobs are very similar and could be streamlined, consolidated, etc.), but yeah, I'm in agreement that it's a pretty c…
For me these type of illustrations are the equivalent of using a really bad stock photo to get your message across on your website.
While I appreciate people putting their work out there these illustrations are poorly done.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha, not a bad idea! > What value are you gaining by having 20 companies pay 20 designers to make the same generic uninspired designs because the clients want it to "look like $every_other_tech_company.?" You're employing people, which has some value to an ostensibly equitable society (lord knows most jobs are very similar and could be streamlined, consolidated, etc.), but yeah, I'm in agreement that it's a pretty c…
For me these type of illustrations are the equivalent of using a really bad stock photo to get your message across on your website. While I appreciate people putting their work out there these illustrations are poorly done.
Yeah, it's one of those things where it's not a big deal if the audience sees it for what it is, because in that case, the company is getting out of it what they put into it.
What sucks is when people are so conditioned to expect a particular aesthetic or asset class (as with corporate memphis) that they just ignore it anyway, effectively justifying going the cheap route. "If our customers don't care about our illustrations anyway, why would we pay for custom ones?" If your illustrations don't matter, why are you using any in the first place?
> "really bad stock photo"
Ironically, really bad stock photos usually come with a licensing fee.
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#99Shameless plug, we have a good set of illustrations on https://www.storyset.com/ . The big difference is StorySet illustrations can be animated and the styles are different. Both products are quite complementary.
Very nice. Is there an option to pay for illustrations to avoid having to place an attribution link?
Excellent question… we don’t have a separate subscription for StorySet, but you can download all these illustrations in Freepik.com without attributing if you subscribe to Freepik.
It’s an oversight that we don’t allow explicitly in the terms of use of the Freepik subscription to use content downloaded from StorySet without attribution. Let me try to fix that tomorrow.
Sorry the system is not straightforward, StorySet is a side project and we didn’t think of monetizing it.
Super glad you like it!
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#100Can't wait for the subtle, inadvertent emotional malady that is a generation raised on faceless (and legless!) bubble people cartoons.
What a sad, weak people we must be, to be emotionally destroyed by marketing material. How disappointing for humanity to survive wars famines and plagues only to be done in by insufficiently detailed cartoons.