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On the subject of changing tastes, I suspect that in 10 years anything in a corporate Memphis style [1] is going to look horribly amateurist and outdated. This shows up a lot more in landing pages and tutorials than ads, but I'm sure there are similar artifacts in ads these days.

[1] https://en.communia.blog/corporate-memphis/



It already looks amateurish and outdated.

Note how design-focused companies like Apple almost never use it. It’s mostly used by Facebook and Google, who aren’t know for sophisticated design.


I seem to remember Apple already having used a similar style of art in manuals in the 90s. [1]

[1] http://mattjfuller.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DSC_0702.j...


I see any brand that uses corporate memphis design as being slack and amateur. It's literally 2020's MS Clip Art.


> I suspect that in 10 years anything in a corporate Memphis style [1] is going to look horribly amateurist and outdated.

I suspect that in 30 years the corporate Memphis style will be a selling point where yet-to-be-born designers try to revive some "Retro Cool".


That link is a wild ride. I expected a design blog. Instead I got a communist indictment of startup culture through the lens of the commodification of illustration.


Same! A refreshing take on the startup world from the outside.


Agree! I really appreciated their main page too with no ads (I think) and the way articles populated the endless scroll.




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