The sameness of all 2.0 imagery
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Positive and Negative articles here
Once new and fresh, now ubiquitous and cliché. Current Issue lists the worst offenders.
It's not all bad though, all trends spring from a creative place, so we also mine them for their underexplored potential.
That bird
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
How can something so innocuous as a wee magpie, or songbird or whatever it is be so annoying? It is absolutely everywhere, from tshirts to restaurant logos to etsy crafty goods to any vector-driven design that embraces the organic look (which can take it’s swirly leafy flourishes back too). The thing I don’t get is why that bird? Why not a deer, or a squirrel or a raccoon? Does that bird evoke some pseudo-serious literary or macabre pretensions?
Honestly though, the return to more romantic iconography is soulful and adds a nice warmth after years of minimalism and techno, just avoid the overkill okay?
