What is the next big aesthetic wave after Flat Design going to be? How much longer will Flat Design last?

poor consumer multimedia, software interface, product & graphic design history, someone will have to salvage it from the damage the 5-minute-clout chasing trannies have done to it

>>456971
fucking shut the fuck up

>>456973
people who make these images are retards and grifters

All those eras had flat design.

>>456976
I actually know the person who made that image, no joke lol

Interesting question! Hard to predict.

Do you guys think we could update this image to be a bit more accurate? Or at least one for each decade or something, because I can think of quite a few more aesthetic/graphic design trends besides these 4.

>>458317
bruh just start. if it is interesting people will join...

>>456970 (OP)
stfu evan collins

These changes were driven by technology just as they were taste. Industrial engineering and materials science, improvements in CAD, 3d modelling software and Photoshop (Aqua and Aero owe everything to PS' layer styles feature), the displays that we view these designs on and the restrictions they demand.
Flat design dominates because these technological factors have barely changed in the past 10 years, so the only thing left is taste. And taste has changed, but it's not like Spotify is going to make their logo all-chrometype any time soon. Phone displays have gotten larger and more vibrant; maybe that'll result in skeuomorphism coming back? I dunno.

idk man. Flat is meant to give room for the users to do their thing, but I was brainstorming an idea and i realized i circled back to hipsters of the early 2010s.

How I got there was thinking how everyones lost their optimism for the future. Stagnation, death, and just gloom and doom. I wanted to make a rebelious aesthetic. A kamikaze towards the future, maybe brutalism or punk, having to have a resolute acceptance of death, i figured a more grounded peaceful yet steady approach, better. A walk towards the future instead of going full throttle.

Charcoal and stone finishes for your electronics casings. a matte finish. cables wrapped in a type of woven fiber. Wooden desks and chairs. Not to heavy but more sturdy than the flimsy minimilst breakable stuff. use of earth tones and amber leds. mugs and bowls made of clay.

Thats when i realized I was thinking of a hipsters coffee shop. Hobbits with laptops. maybe dial it back a bit to be less pretentious hipsters and more about being home with mom and dad for the holiday. Home. Anyways, i could go for a dirty chai.

>>456970 (OP)
Flat, but even more minimalistic and less colors
like, rudimentary shapes in black and white or shy unattractive color palettes

>>458352
>just deconstruct the fuck out of our previous logo please
>there, I don't even know what it says anymore
>perfect! that will do

Neo Corporate Airbrush-High Tech
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/80s-corporate-airbrush-high-tech

[Just kidding of course. Flat design is here to stay.]

>>456970 (OP)
when i see these images i just imagine that people at the time (80's, 90's, etc) probably felt the same way about this kind of thing like how we do now.

>>458622
My opinion on 2000's tech has definitely been rehabilitated. I was born in 2002. So when I saw something with the style of what they now call Y2K, it had been associated in my mind with old broken and outdated tech. The
translucent plastic had yellowed, The software was old and slow. It was the markers of the old.
I feel like that must happen to every person, at least while they're growing up with the art style that directly precedes them.

>>458622
there is nothing new under the sun.

>>458353
nvkia

>>456970 (OP)
I wish we stayed in y2k forever

>>456970 (OP)
do y'all not have internet?
the new thing is that when the emphasis is on the materials and textures. that tactile 3d feel, minimalistic in shape and color but definitely not flat. using materials and textures that differ not only in color but other properties
for interfaces a great example is microsofts' fluent design or that thing the apple vision pro got goin on
for objects it's like teenage engineering or nothing

idk if this has a name tho, if it does i'm unfamiliar. desu i feel like it's a bit soulless. flexing the technical abilities of our current era but in a mid manner.

also why do i have to wait for 900 seconds for a captcha? is this some new thing?

>>458622
You'd probably have to query some 60ish year olds for objectivity. I was a kid in the 90s and thought the aesthetic was very distinct from the 80s and in a good way. In the aughts I was a teen/early 20s and thought that we'd seen incredible progress and was very excited. In both cases, the enthusiasm could be attributed to youth.

I dislike the flat design we've been stuck in. It is nihilistic and soulless. I used to mod OSX to look like this for a week at a time, but would never have wanted it to predominate. Am I just getting old or is this objectively awful design? Hard to say.

>>458353
I don't mind it. The most iconic logos are unreadable. Readability has been the worst thing to happen to design. Every logo is now the name of the company written in helvetica. Anything unreadable is better.

>>456970 (OP)
Maybe some kind of a pragmatic style that integrates nature with flat design. It's what corporations would have chosen to please everyone.

Which do you think the website is in?

What aesthetic do you think this website is?

>>459187
Chudiger Trano

I did one as sort of an umbrella of futuristic and technophilic design trends from the 1980's which share a sort of cheesy '80s-ish' vibe and which have heavily influenced the revivalist genres, synthwave and vaporwave. The title '80s Corporate High-Tech' (or '80s Futurism') is tentative but basically this covers much of 'Cassette Futurism' (which dips into the 70s), the retrofuturist typography used in the 80s (and late 70s), the futurist/technophilic portion of 'Airbrush Surrealism', and includes the design trend referred to as 'Laser Grid'. So just as Y2K Futurism (or 'Cybercore') contains multiple design trends within it (such as Vectorheart and Metalheart) so does 80s Futurism. The aesthetic glorified high technology, and with a particular interest in the advancing age of personal computers (often due to tech companies commissioning ads for their products). It often depicted basic 3D geometric shapes, early computer displays and virtual worlds (i.e. the infamous laser grids), outer space as a backdrop for depicted objects, ostentatious displays of the color spectrum (to signify advanced tech capabilities), stylized parallel rows of lines or strips (but usually not as playful and exuberant as with 70s supergraphics), airbrush-style metallic surfaces and exaggerated sparkles, retrofuturist typography, 'boxy' angular imposing SciFi designs for vehicles, tech products, and interior design which were usually white, beige, or gray. The airbrush art tended to be visually darker, more surreal than the preceding variants of retrofuturism, and the tech product designs would have a noted 'boxiness' to it as opposed to the 'roundedness' of the preceding futurist product designs of the 60s & 70s. The common thread was that it all looked like it was from some 80s science fiction film. 1/2

>>459755
Having its roots in the retrofuturism of the 70s, it was largely anchored in the 1980s since it was more or less dead by the time the 90s came around due to airbrush art being made obsolete by the rise of CGI, and the art styles associated with airbrushing started to look antiquated. It would be superseded by '90s Corporate Cyber' after the 80s. 2/2

https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/80s-corporate-airbrush-high-tech
https://cari.institute/aesthetics/laser-grid
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/cassette-futurism

Airbrush Surrealism:
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/airbrush-surrealism
https://tumblrviewer.co/blog/kingsanda-1.html

90s Corporate Cyber:
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/cyber-gen-x-corporate

And here's another broad umbrella of styles which, together, comprise a certain aesthetic that emerged in the late 80s as a naturalistic reaction to the technophilic excess of that time. It eschewed computer-generated imagery for the 'earthly' feel of hand-painted arts and crafts, soft pastel colors, and down-to-earth typography. It typically consisted of stereotypical depictions of tribal art, painted spirals, symbols of Earth & nature, as well as borrowing from a variety of early 20th century art movements. The visual styles of GVC (Global Village Coffeehouse) are diverse enough for it to be broken down into subgenres but they overlap a lot and they're individually not significant enough to merit it since they're all watered-down imitations that share a similar appeal and commercial purpose. The common thread among them would be a tunefulness with nature, the feeling of humanity being united, and a sort of cheesy “welcome to our cafe” commercial appeal. Sometimes it consisted of photographs of a product in a naturalistic setting with dimmed or natural lighting and with it being surrounded by sand or straw. It was often used by companies to make their products more inviting to normal everyday people who might feel estranged by the tech world. In this sense, the intent behind it bares some resemblance to the intent of Frutiger Aero. Some people eventually found the aesthetic to be inauthentic, embarrassing and distasteful so it would soon be ditched after the 90s.

https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/global-village-coffeehouse
https://cari.institute/aesthetics/global-village-coffeehouse
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Global_Village_Coffeehouse

>>459755
>>459756
>>459757
Keep in mind that I did these mainly for fun. It's good to not get too carried away with categorizing everything and just enjoy exploring distinct visual styles.

>>456970 (OP)
Its long in and it's glass design. Though monkeys have big issues implementing it cause idk

>>456970 (OP)
Holographic. Using neon colors in a sleek way that overindulges in the color spectrum but still remains relatively simple. The red+blue faux 80s design has been around long enough, people want to see yellow green and blue again. But pink and blue will remain an anchor.

>>459757
Always did like GVC. Can you do "utopian scholastic" next?

>>456970 (OP)
AI slop, whatever AI will give executives when they prompt it with their product.

>>456970 (OP)
80s, 90s and 2000s had the best designs. It's all downhill 2010s onward

I hope the flat aesthetic dies soon, everything is so boringgg! Frutiger Aero and Y2K definitely need a comeback.

>>460231
I had plans to do a few more but they were shelved as I lost interest in this stuff soon after I finished the two graphics I posted here. Regrettably, it could be a while before I get back into it.

And you really gotta be into it too because these types of graphics have a very involving process. If you're doing a good job it involves many hours of searching through hundreds, if not thousands, of images trying to find the ones that are both good and exemplary of the aesthetic. Then you have to track down quality scans of your selections, which can involve ordering a vintage magazine or a CD on eBay. Then you have to edit the selections to optimize color richness & detail, which can involve upscale software and photoshop. Then you have to figure out how best to orient the selected images together, deciding which ones to crop or expand (usually with AI). Last but not least, you have to theme the graphic in accordance to the aesthetic.

This is all good and fun but it really is quite a time-consuming & exhausting process. Even the simple doodle in the GVC header was a labored effort. It made me appreciate those minimalist contour illustrations of female figures a lot more. I can see why today's design world would rather just go with the low effort Corporate Memphis slop.

>>460255
AI slop would be a massive improvement over Corporate Memphis (provided its not AI-generated Corporate Memphis). They mainly go with globohomo flatshit out of convenience. So AI might free them up to market stuff with something less dreadfully monotonous & boring.

>>456970 (OP)
frutiger aero to flat design to this day has got to be one of the worst downgrade moments in technology history.