this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Corporations just seem to be getting more and more abstract... Here's my ✨ amazing ✨ (non-complete) list:

  • Oversimplification of logos (*cough* *cough* Firefox killing our fox)
  • Corporate Memphis (that big tech, supper flat, indestiguishable art style)
  • Websites (everything is either a bento box, image carousel, or loaded up with scroll-based animations -- or all of these)
  • Names (Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is becoming X)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think he mistakenly referred to the firefox group of things like the password manager, the browser still has the fox logo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that’s my bad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It kooks like children were forced to design corporate logos in ms paint.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_X

Appropriate that this album is from the late 90s, which is when the X name would have actually been cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that reminds me of IAMX

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

These design examples are really interesting to me. I would hazard a guess that these types of designs are only popular right now because they are common among rapid design software packages/subscriptions used by companies who don't want to hire real designers. I don't think the styles are inherently bad but they certainly are lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You must have missed this…

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/if-other-media-companies-thought-about-brand-equity-the-way-elon-musk-thinks-about-twitters-er-xs/

X was ahead of the game, but now everyone is quickly jumping onboard. I'll be changing my username to 's' as soon as I finish typing this. /s