Fuck flat
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Regarding homogeneity or generic look of design, there's kind of a dynamic that has always gone on between standardization and originality. Before the printing press was invented, books were all like painstakingly crafted works of individual art. Stuff like this:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/educat…
Ever since then, we've been moving further and further in the direction of standardization and mass production, to the point where today you can assemble an entire website in five minutes out of a template and a bunch of preexisting stock elements. But it's actually a good thing from the point of view of being able to share and disseminate information.
Eventually design will probably become totally obsolete and you will just select a menu option in Photoshop that says Create Website > Style > Flat > Pastel Color Scheme > Publish
- and look at the varying species of books. they don't all look the same.doesnotexist