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Surprise, creatives hate minimalism.
Design trends can be a tricky thing to handle well. When a trend gets popular every company wants to hop on the bandwagon, but in most cases, it slowly becomes too much of a good thing. Unfortunately, in today’s lightspeed trend cycle, the birth of a design trend also marks its untimely death.
In the wake of this ever-changing design plague, graphic designers took to Reddit to share their design trend pet peeves – from illegible typography to cringy retro revivals – but don’t take it too much to heart. As we’ve seen with the resuscitation of design aesthetics like Frutiger Aero, just because your favourite design trend has met its demise doesn’t mean it won’t come back stronger than ever.
The most common design pet peeve shared on the r/graphic_design subreddit was the influx of soulless minimalism. Naturally, as graphic designers, there’s a compulsion to explore the creative possibilities of a project – something that the minimalism trend has destroyed.
“It has its place just like every other style, but everybody can’t have a minimalist logo and branding,” user u/thegreenstars says. Pointing to recent examples like the new Johnson and Johnson logo and the X rebrand, they question why brands are no longer trying to stand out against the competition. “Why are y’all ruining your brand identity and ditching your whole personality to conform to this “need” for minimalist design?” they add.
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Natalie is Creative Bloq’s staff writer. With an eye for trending topics and a passion for internet culture, she brings you the latest in art and design news. A recent English Literature graduate, Natalie enjoys covering the lighter side of the news and brings a fresh and fun take to her articles. Outside of work (if she’s not glued to her phone), she loves all things music and enjoys singing sweet folky tunes.
