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It's safe and banal. Facebook is very concerned about "safety".[1] By which they mean "no sex", not "no scams". Their solution to this in Horizon is that their characters have no body below the waist.
I hate Corporate Memphis as much as the next person but > “Isometric perspective is interesting, because nothing recedes to a vanishing point,” Rudnick says, “and therefore it also eliminates the variable of time.” He points out that this type of design is particularly popular with fintech and mortgage companies – playing down the passage of time is particularly advantageous to firms selling financial products that y…
reminds me of the now-infamous Pepsi "Breathtaking" design document https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Why are you even watching ads?
Due to my ad blockers and not watching TV or listening to the radio, I almost never see or hear ads, so didn't even know that many ads looked the same.
I wish more people used ad blockers, so we can wipe out the cancer that is advertising.
Really you should blame the popularity of SVG graphics
Corporate Memphis looks like a variation of it. There is a word I can't seem to find, and it's for when you take a font or an image and round it to make it seem softer, safer, and less assertive, and so-called "feminine." The Corporate Memphis designers have essentially taken the aesthetics of both futurism and "Naive Art," to create this new language of patronizing global banality. It's not about adding or emphasizing diverse elements, it's about homogenizing them, which captures the whole purpose I think.
Better question: Why are you even watching ads? Due to my ad blockers and not watching TV or listening to the radio, I almost never see or hear ads, so didn't even know that many ads looked the same. I wish more people used ad blockers, so we can wipe out the cancer that is advertising.
Better question: Why are you even watching ads? Due to my ad blockers and not watching TV or listening to the radio, I almost never see or hear ads, so didn't even know that many ads looked the same. I wish more people used ad blockers, so we can wipe out the cancer that is advertising.
Do you ever go outside?
The point of these design languages is to affect a sense of power. One of the funniest versions of this was 1990's tech aesthetic that was pure (Italian) Futurism, without any sense of irony about its origins. Corporate Memphis looks like a variation of it. There is a word I can't seem to find, and it's for when you take a font or an image and round it to make it seem softer, safer, and less assertive, and so-called…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you ever go outside?
Yes, but I listen to music or podcasts on headphones so don't hear adverts that might be playing on a radio in stores and avert my gaze from billboards and ads on monitors.
The point of these design languages is to affect a sense of power. One of the funniest versions of this was 1990's tech aesthetic that was pure (Italian) Futurism, without any sense of irony about its origins. Corporate Memphis looks like a variation of it. There is a word I can't seem to find, and it's for when you take a font or an image and round it to make it seem softer, safer, and less assertive, and so-called…
I don't know the word either, but this reminds me of the concept of "elevator music"