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NoReturn said:
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That does explain a lot. Imagine working on the awful bloatware adware systems in Windows 11 that constantly use your bandwidth to show you things you don't want and putting that on your resume as 'design'.

If I were her I would be incredibly depressed having to work with the amazingly ugly Windows 11 design aesthetic.

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It's so fucking ugly. Not only did they remove all details, everything is so big and blocky and EMPTY.

And that weird texture all windows have like it is slightly transparent white plastic is so unappealing.

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Anyway what I also wanted to say about the current "AI" systems is that they all have icons like this -
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They are all just very basic random shapes.

Now let's look at how the precursors to these current "AI" systems (yes they are a lot more basic but same idea).

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The whole selling point of the new and old "AI" systems is that you are asking it questions or to do something for you.

Therefore it is being sold to you as a living entity that you interact with. Fuck, these days they want you to have relationships with them.


So therefore would it not make fucking sense for these new "AI" systems to have avatars like Clippy and co did? Back then they recognized that people want a face to put a name to, they wanted these algorithms to be "humanized".

But the modern design language is to give "AI" simple symbols as their icons which goes completely against what they are trying to achieve.

Gotta be minimalist shapes or bust I guess.
 

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Forsaken Wanderer said:
Everyone is talking about the very appealing aesthetics from the past.

Does anyone even have a single thought about modern aesthetics?

I doubt it because it's thoughtless.
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Modern aesthetics are so boring at the point they could be described as anti-aesthetics. No identity, no personality, no nothing. As someone said in another reply, everything now is aiming to be big, blocky and empty.

Imagine spending years of your life studying Graphic Design just to end up designing a logo that is just the name of a company written in Times New Roman and a non-sensical blue/red/yellow figure on the left.
 
Adam Jensen said:
Modern aesthetics are so boring at the point they could be described as anti-aesthetics. No identity, no personality, no nothing. As someone said in another reply, everything now is aiming to be big, blocky and empty.

Imagine spending years of your life studying Graphic Design just to end up designing a logo that is just the name of a company written in Times New Roman and a non-sensical blue/red/yellow figure on the left.
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It must be heart breaking to get your foot into the door of a graphic design job, get given the task of coming up with a new company logo, creating a bunch of interesting designs, and then have the board tell you to throw all of your designs in the bin and to just make the logo the company name in a basic font.
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What we have today is pure utilitarian. The only elements that are present are there because they have to be.

Look at modern main stream media sites. It's generally just a bar at the top with the company logo, then some basic links below it, and the the article which is presented in centered text on a blank white page.

Or, a random example, but on Youtube there is no colour in anything (not including the logo) other than the blue bars on the poll results graphs, which are probably only blue so that they are more visible, i'm sure they just would have made them black otherwise.
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There is one thing I do not understand and that is the proliferation of the circle profile picture on the internet.

Other than Kiwi Farms and Steam almost all sites and services use circle profile pictures, and have done so for about the last decade.

I've tried to look into why it was decided to move away from square profile pictures and move to circles and the only reason given is that circles are better for portrait photos (even though they are not).

Aesthetically circles look terrible and given that websites are made up of square borders it doesn't mesh well with anything else.

Anyone have an answer as to why we are stuck with circle profile pictures that don't work well with square image files?
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*I was meant to say "square image" not "square imagine"
 
I don't mind the circular shape itself, but last time I wanted to upload someone's facebook pfp, there even wasn't an editor tool where I could move and zoom the picture and select what will be inside the circle. Like, one had to have a pre-prepared square pic.
That wasn't an issue with square photos. Guess they did not want to bother with circular mask in editor, so they just dropped that entirely.
 
All images since the beggining of the internet have been square. It's common sense to let me choose a square profile pic. Forcing it to be a circle is idiotic.
 
Metalheart (also known as Depthcore or Trendwhore) is an aesthetic that was prevalent from roughly 1998 to 2004, during the Y2K Era. It was characterized by deformed abstract shapes and futuristic fonts on blurry backgrounds.

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redlenses2112 said:
Metalheart (also known as Depthcore or Trendwhore) is an aesthetic that was prevalent from roughly 1998 to 2004, during the Y2K Era. It was characterized by deformed abstract shapes and futuristic fonts on blurry backgrounds.

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AND IT WAS FUCKING PEAK
 
Adam Jensen said:
Modern aesthetics are so boring at the point they could be described as anti-aesthetics. No identity, no personality, no nothing. As someone said in another reply, everything now is aiming to be big, blocky and empty.

Imagine spending years of your life studying Graphic Design just to end up designing a logo that is just the name of a company written in Times New Roman and a non-sensical blue/red/yellow figure on the left.
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It might be to stave off people being "offended". P&G went through the satanic symbol rumor decades ago and would-be influencers have gotten worse. Companies might be nervous about being accused of hidden Nazi symbols or something. Those rainbow shapes are probably "rainbow" for a reason.
 
redlenses2112 said:
Metalheart (also known as Depthcore or Trendwhore) is an aesthetic that was prevalent from roughly 1998 to 2004, during the Y2K Era. It was characterized by deformed abstract shapes and futuristic fonts on blurry backgrounds.

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Sounds like this
 
Arbiter said:
Ancient Egypt is peak, but Roman Egypt is so underrated.
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Romano-Egyptian art!! I always adored the depictions Egyptians did for their gods but after a while it was just looking same body types with a different animal swapped on the head, stiff limbs, and always pointed to the side. The Romans gave them so much more character and dimension.
 
I really like adding fancy fonts into my collection. I mainly use WhatTheFont to upload images and find fonts.
Eurostyle is fantasctic. It was used a lot (maybe too much) during the 2000s in tons of films.
Of course you had to add a fitting background, stretching the font and other stuff to give this font different effects.
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Also, I cannot find what this one is called. It's very common in old newspapers. Maybe the grey background gives it a distinctive effect?
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