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> It lets companies look diverse
> Not sure what skin color to use? Make them blue
Seeing cartoon SVGs of brown people really hits a nerve for some people. IMO if you walk around the Bay Area the racial distribution is more or less the same as these graphics, so there's really nothing to complain about in that regard. Go buy Russian software if you don't like it.
Had a discussion about this style with an illustrator friend a few months ago. Illustration is genuinely better at conveying concepts than photography, and everyone is tired of lightbulbs, puzzle pieces, people in suits shaking hands and other stock photo cliches. Problem is, commissioning an illustrator, especially a good one, is expensive and time consuming and takes excellent art direction to get right.[1] This st…
I'd prefer that.
> When you see the CEO of tech companies talk in private or to one another, the way that they frame their view of the world is fascinatingly opposed to the world depicted in a Corporate Memphis illustration I see a CEO who won’t squirrel away over details that are irrelevant to making money, isn't married to a company as their baby, and has in particular let go of the design process and given it to designers or desig…
It's the world we live in. But to say the situation is perfect, is quite simply a lie.
I specifically didn’t say perfect I said ‘effective’, and ‘for me’: The executive, board member, and advisor for various ventures.
A lot of the reason for these design trends is that no one has the courage to think differently, so you get huge numbers of companies all looking virtually identical. It's a bit like 'nobody gets fired for buying IBM/McKinsey' etc...no one challenges product managers and marketing when yet another adobe illustrator generated Memphis style brand identity & UI is unveiled, complete with multi cultural inclusive visual…
Lumping in cultural inclusivity with your critique is quite revealing. There's nothing in the article or about this style of illustration that hints at cultural values, why include it in the tirade?
When paging the old magazines, I noticed that until about the mid-eighties the focus of an ad was on a product. An ad would even boast of the technical specs of a car or an audio system. A prominent display of people in the process of consuming, or even just people, puts the marketing focus on lifestyle, brand identity and the alignment with some values. I hate Corporate Memphis the same way I hate the other attempts…
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It's the world we live in. But to say the situation is perfect, is quite simply a lie.
I know plenty of people that squirrel away over irrelevant details for new businesses and can’t distinguish between relevant and irrelevant I specifically didn’t say perfect I said ‘effective’, and ‘for me’: The executive, board member, and advisor for various ventures.
The fact these CEOs are only concerned with profit, and the fact you drew a comparison between these ventures and colonialism .. is a very apt summary.
You used the word 'perfect'.
It's perfect in terms of achieving these aims, and as I mentioned in another comment .. the style is definitely indicative of the system it serves.
However, a lot of the factors involved are very suboptimal in my mind.
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reminds me of the now-infamous Pepsi "Breathtaking" design document https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
This document is insane. It feels like everyone involved in the production of it is so utterly disconnected from reality. That first page “Trajectory of innovation” with the pseudograph is an utterly hilarious distillation of the madness yet to come. The deeper I read into the document the worse it got. Golden ratio, Patterns being found where there were none to begin with (“perimeter oscillations”), Pepsi Energy fie…
If a giant corporation offers up millions of dollars to have a design agency blow smoke up their ass, they will find an agency willing to generate as much smoke as needed to separate them from their cash.
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…
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I know plenty of people that squirrel away over irrelevant details for new businesses and can’t distinguish between relevant and irrelevant I specifically didn’t say perfect I said ‘effective’, and ‘for me’: The executive, board member, and advisor for various ventures.
You're missing my point. The fact these CEOs are only concerned with profit, and the fact you drew a comparison between these ventures and colonialism .. is a very apt summary. You used the word 'perfect'. It's perfect in terms of achieving these aims, and as I mentioned in another comment .. the style is definitely indicative of the system it serves. However, a lot of the factors involved are very suboptimal in my m…
Typical initial hurdles and their solution:
The name of the company on the incorporation documents doesn't matter.
You don't need a lawyer to incorporate.
Just get the logo done on Fiverr.
You don't need a team page on your website. Nobody cares.
Your co-founders are not 50% or equal shareholders.
Keep most of the shares.
Do non-dilutive things.
Stop adding non-standard things to sweeten the deal to potential investors. They either want shares or they don't.