It all looks the same...
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- graybu
Has the internet made a lot of design worldwide look the same style?
- chossy0
nope
- moamoa0
I know at least 500 websites that looks like yours :)
kidding: nice work
- ha. yeah my website is nothing original, but hopefully all my work doesn't look like everyone elsesgraybu
- your work looks great. I like itmoamoa
- cheers moamoa! Your work's pretty sweet too! :)graybu
- Get a room... hahababaganush
- hallelujah0
yes
- skser0
it just looks the same when you spend the whole day on manystuff and myspace
- it only looks the same if you look at designhallelujah
- :)skser
- ********0
nice work man!
- designbot0
Yes, the world is now flat.
- eighteen0
whenever I'm bored I just click the newstoday bookmark in my browser and look through whatever is on editor's choice. Sometimes the stuff blows me away but usually I just find myself scrolling and clicking without absorbing anything because I'm just so used to creativity that it takes so much to interest me.
- graybu0
yeah, to be honest the stuff on QBN is normally a lot more refined that other design blogs. Sometimes I just feel like a lot of agency work is starting to look very similar and theres a lot of style over substance
- ********0
all filler no killer
- jimzyk0
very nice work gray graham.
very nice indeed.i think you're right, in some respects.
with t'internet theres so much exposure to everything (good & bad)
- SkyPoo0
You know what I wish? I wish I still had all my old Creative Reviews from the 80's. I think you'd really see how homogenised and shallow design is now by comparing, say, next nonth's issue with its counterpart from 1988. There was such a vast array of work before the computers and the internet arrived. There was no way of knowing what anyone else was doing unless it appeared in books or in Creative Review. So everybody largely did their own thing in their own style, and homogenisation was slowed hugely by the fact that nothing visual could travel that fast back then.
There were still strains, and you could see that some people were following a strain, but their individuality would be so prominent that the strain would be an underpinning only.
Plagiarism was explosive back then too. If someone did soemthing that looked like something that had been published previously, A total shit storm would erupt, for a very long time, and people would be inflamed by it. Creative Review used to run ongoing wars of words between disgruntled people and it would run for issue after issue until CR finally gave both parties an article each to to defend or accuse.
Now, plagiarism IS the style. Everybody copies everybody else in an instant and because everybody's doing more or les the same thing it doesn't matter any more. Most of the people working in design now would not be able to judge good design vs bad design, they're programmed by repeat exposure to the dogmatic rules of what is seen as acceptable design now, and that is largely drivn by peer admiration. I'm sure all the agencies out there doing the current style can all be traced back to one studio somewhere that started it off. It has to be black and white, it has to feel like great abstract photographic depth, it has to have too-tightly tracked bold modrnist typography, crisp and white, range left, chunky grid structure, whatever.... Whatever.
Asking people to judge design today is like asking battery hens to appreciate haute cuisine.
The fact of the matter is we don't need this many people doing it now. Some of you should stop. Go and do something else now. If you're not driven to contradict the generic style in favour of rediscovering your own inherent individual style, then put your wacom pen down and leave.
- Meeklo0
"It all looks the same"
Dude, no offense but that statement right there, is pretty blunt.
You are either only watching stuff coming from KDU or you are not educated enough to distinguish between leaders and followers..
- ********0
- ********0
A vast majority of website either look like blogs or behave like them...
- ********0
I find most of european design being looking the same.
american design, seems all over the place except for soft gradients, drop shadows and reflections
asia is where things are different
- ********0
Asia design seems to be a global rip-off of everyone else's design.
- ukit0
Indian design is teh future
- ********0
- ********0
I dont think thats rip off, i think thats just bad design and that exists everywhere.