design cliches
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- ********0
haha, i was going to put originality (pbs mar24 15:19) but i figured eggnog would take that as me being holier than thou as well
- ********0
look at newstoday...
THE BOOK METAPHOR!
- eggnog0
what? are you looking for conflict? i'm just asking for help and your baiting me. jeez.
- ********0
you asked for cliches...I didnt dig on newstoday
- eggnog0
no man. not you. i was referring to flavorful.
- JamesEngage0
is it a book metaphor? never really thought of it as that.
- ********0
looks like a book to me, or maybe a magazine
- Soler0
Beveled text
Drop shadows
Swirls and swooshes on logos
- DutchBoy0
crests
of a good variety of animals.. usually birds of prey..
sometimes bambi..
- Neuarmy0
I heard lensflares are coming back...
- zack270
deer, rainbows, preloaders that say "loading xml" (showing off, in my opinion)...
how about that mask animation where an outline fills in to become a color version?
- zack270
example of the mask thing here:
that's an instance where it's cool, but I see it all the time now.
- datahiccup0
halftone patterns
rounded squares
Helvetica Rounded
making motion graphics look silkscreen like
handwritten type
gradiantsim guilty of them all
- redFridge0
minimal / pixel
monocromatic
45 degree angle
painterly menuscolors
.jpg/.gif
- monkeyshine0
what about gradients? I'm guilty of that in my corporate work. hhmm...hard to resist as a lazy design decision...and corporate clients think its so cutting edge. oy.
- contribute0
The online magazine seems to be huge right now. Lets see who can make their magazine look most like you're really looking at a magazine, but onscreen. Who came up with this idea? Nevertheless, I am 100% guilty.
- mrdobolina0
what's left after you fucking monsters tear everything to shreds? Also, the 2 biggest loudmouths in this thread have no site posted to show off the groundbreaking work that they obviously do.
- Dolan0
Carsonism & grunge. Give it up kids, was old 12 years ago.
- contribute0
Have to agree w/you Dolan. Postmodernism is the true cliche, the death of design in my opinion.
- versa0
wouldn't have thought of it, cause its such a minute example, but just got back from the bar, and saw it again...
Matisse used for anything remotely "island" or reggae