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The concept of not indulging in more than you need is respectable, but I’ve seen way too much shit jump on the trend of bland, minimalist imagry that’s absolutely boring. Even good companies have changed their logos to this sort of shit. It’s annoying to see artistic style and flair get thrown out the door because having next to nothing as your icon is trendy. Not to mention how architecture is made that way these days. Little artistic style in the name of “minimalism.”
In reality, this mimimalism trend is a thing because companies see it as a way to to pay less and use less resources. It’s been leading to this bland, homogenized appearance to everything that to me only end up making life feel a bit like a bland, flavorless chore. A bit of an exaggeration, but a lack of stimuli can really wear down on you. Too much stimulation is it’s own issue, but having pretty much nothing is just grating and hammers in the monotony of life more than you’d think.
I’ll give an example: a local restaurant in my neck of the woods that has great food changed its logo about a year ago from something rustic and worn to a sterile, bland, white and one color minimalist design. I don’t really the new logo as much as the old one. Sure, it had its hipster elements before, but the food is damn good. Their logo was really cool and had this old rustic charm. Then they took it away, and it looks like they castrated the atmosphere. Mind you, I still eat there because they’ve got good food. I’m not that autistic about logos and signs. I’m not saying your logos can’t be “minimalist” in the sense that it isn’t elaborate. That’s how most logos are. The issue is when it ends up feeling like there’s a lack of excitement to it and instead ends up making you say “meh.”
And for the people who say they do it because people in Africa can’t afford these amenities, they still have a style to their buildings, products, foods, signs, etc. limitation breeds creativity. They still have more style than the absense of it a lot of the trendy minimalist shit does because for them it just happens.
My final take? Minimalism can be good from time to time, but the fact that it has become a trend is just plain annoying. Some people can do it right, but most can’t. It’s another trendy buzzword of the day that will go away and be mocked just like a lot of other shit from previous decades before it becomes trendy in a retro way like the 80s have become now. I’m not a fan of it aside from maybe the couple of people that do it right. Namely, it’ll work when you start off that way. If you end up going from something else, it often makes your minimalist transition look like a downgrade.
It is a buzzword. It is a trend. It comes from decent intentions but ends up being another bandwagon trend and bastardized into an excuse to be lazy. The takeaway is really that once art movements become popular and trendy, it begins to lose its artistic merit as people who merely follow what’s popular or makes them feel special dilute the crowd and it’s concepts until they devalue them.
In reality, this mimimalism trend is a thing because companies see it as a way to to pay less and use less resources. It’s been leading to this bland, homogenized appearance to everything that to me only end up making life feel a bit like a bland, flavorless chore. A bit of an exaggeration, but a lack of stimuli can really wear down on you. Too much stimulation is it’s own issue, but having pretty much nothing is just grating and hammers in the monotony of life more than you’d think.
I’ll give an example: a local restaurant in my neck of the woods that has great food changed its logo about a year ago from something rustic and worn to a sterile, bland, white and one color minimalist design. I don’t really the new logo as much as the old one. Sure, it had its hipster elements before, but the food is damn good. Their logo was really cool and had this old rustic charm. Then they took it away, and it looks like they castrated the atmosphere. Mind you, I still eat there because they’ve got good food. I’m not that autistic about logos and signs. I’m not saying your logos can’t be “minimalist” in the sense that it isn’t elaborate. That’s how most logos are. The issue is when it ends up feeling like there’s a lack of excitement to it and instead ends up making you say “meh.”
And for the people who say they do it because people in Africa can’t afford these amenities, they still have a style to their buildings, products, foods, signs, etc. limitation breeds creativity. They still have more style than the absense of it a lot of the trendy minimalist shit does because for them it just happens.
My final take? Minimalism can be good from time to time, but the fact that it has become a trend is just plain annoying. Some people can do it right, but most can’t. It’s another trendy buzzword of the day that will go away and be mocked just like a lot of other shit from previous decades before it becomes trendy in a retro way like the 80s have become now. I’m not a fan of it aside from maybe the couple of people that do it right. Namely, it’ll work when you start off that way. If you end up going from something else, it often makes your minimalist transition look like a downgrade.
It is a buzzword. It is a trend. It comes from decent intentions but ends up being another bandwagon trend and bastardized into an excuse to be lazy. The takeaway is really that once art movements become popular and trendy, it begins to lose its artistic merit as people who merely follow what’s popular or makes them feel special dilute the crowd and it’s concepts until they devalue them.
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