Design fads?
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What might be intresting is to trace the root of the fad.
For instance, the circle with drips coming down that you mention is most obvious linked to spray=paint stencil art which is big now... it was an element that allowed digital or print work to take on a rough/gritty urban street style.
Less know are the roots of leaving vowels out of words like ths crc vr2l. This was actually adopted from early programming code where the limits of memory caused programmers to be cheap with using characters. The original term for this was Hungrian programming, because the dude that started it was Hungarian (and worked for Apple Computer). Why was that a fad? Well it looked cool, and at the time everyone was very hung up on the "Virtual, Cyber, Code" astetitc so it fit well.
See if you can trace the reason behind fads such as the 45 degree angle, Royal Iconography (the lions, crown, etc.).
It's all to easy to exploit them, but very few dive into the root cause. Find out about the times they appear and how the trends reflect the current situtaion or climate in out world.
At least you stand to gain something useful out of your project... and who knows, maybe you'll be armed with the know-how to start the next one.