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Anonymous08/24/24, 20:59No.456970
What is the next big aesthetic wave after Flat Design going to be? How much longer will Flat Design last?
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Anon08/24/24, 22:26No.456971
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
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Anon08/25/24, 09:31No.456977
All those eras had flat design.
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Anon10/16/24, 02:40No.458027
Interesting question! Hard to predict.
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Anon10/22/24, 16:19No.458317
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.
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Anon10/23/24, 17:34No.458332
stfu evan collins
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Anon10/23/24, 18:25No.458334
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.
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Anon10/24/24, 00:27No.458335
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.
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Anon10/25/24, 12:51No.458352
Flat, but even more minimalistic and less colors
like, rudimentary shapes in black and white or shy unattractive color palettes
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Anon11/11/24, 19:18No.458621
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.]
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Anon11/11/24, 23:56No.458622
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.
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Anon12/11/24, 05:22No.458929
I wish we stayed in y2k forever
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Anon12/31/24, 17:17No.459136
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 nothingidk 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?
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Anon01/04/25, 09:45No.459181
Maybe some kind of a pragmatic style that integrates nature with flat design. It's what corporations would have chosen to please everyone.
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Anon01/04/25, 20:21No.459186
Which do you think the website is in?
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Anon01/04/25, 20:22No.459187
What aesthetic do you think this website is?
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Anon02/23/25, 18:48No.459755
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
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Anon02/23/25, 19:01No.459757
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
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Anon02/27/25, 07:25No.459800
Its long in and it's glass design. Though monkeys have big issues implementing it cause idk
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Anon03/10/25, 09:17No.459865
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.
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Anon05/08/25, 19:17No.460255
AI slop, whatever AI will give executives when they prompt it with their product.
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Anon05/09/25, 19:09No.460258
80s, 90s and 2000s had the best designs. It's all downhill 2010s onward
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Anon05/09/25, 19:54No.460259
I hope the flat aesthetic dies soon, everything is so boringgg! Frutiger Aero and Y2K definitely need a comeback.
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Anon07/17/25, 06:29No.460829
frutiger aero to flat design to this day has got to be one of the worst downgrade moments in technology history.
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Anon07/25/25, 18:20No.460884
None, flat design means no design, the death of design and that paradigm has gone on unchanging for a decade. Every single thing is ruled by profit margins, design cannot factor in to any consideration of pure profit as it is only considered a drag and something where costs can be cut for no real loss.Look at the switch 2, literally zero design work was done for it, literally zero. It was previously unthinkable that you could launch any product let alone a flagship product of a global corporation without trying to define itself through its livery but now, who cares, the retards will line up and swallow whatever crap is offered
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Anon08/31/25, 19:51No.461791
If you look at what restaurant chains have been doing, and trust that as an identity, it's "Nothing". Not minimalism, minimalism reduces something to its minimal form, this is "nothing". Takeout cups are solid white. No pattern no chosen color just white. Logos are just text, no graphic. Buildings are blocks, no identifying form. Icons are flat homogenous squares. The more nothing you can add the better. Glass is a good material for Nothing, but white plastic is better. Yoga pants are out, too much form, low cut wide legged pants are better. Short shirts show something, long baggy shirts are better: you'll look like nothing. Color? Blanco. Font? Sans.
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Anon09/01/25, 12:01No.461814
A new Coca-Cola logo redesing is coming in.
I can feel it.
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Anon09/10/25, 15:55No.462020
Gradient/glass design is here to stay I suppose.
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Anon09/10/25, 22:11No.462022
Depending on if a country is rising, declining or stagnating, art and general design will follow. I bet to a big part design is a reflection of how people want to feel - it is consonant with the dominant collective unconscious. Sadly even enshittification has its designs and the blandness you are talking about is about seeking simplicity and staying low. You rightly notice that design needs to be afforded, but not only monetarily bit also mentally.
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Anon09/19/25, 18:24No.462123
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Anon11/12/25, 07:32No.462795
probably gradient shit for a good minute
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Anon11/25/25, 09:32No.462909
If you think graphic design trends only change every ten years youre obviously not working in the industry.
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Anon11/28/25, 07:35No.462941
They will hold soulless flat slop over your head for the rest of your life because it's easier for retarded third world ESL shitskins to comprehend and the corpos will not stop until they've sold every last one of us out to them.
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Anon01/06/26, 10:26No.463326
It'll look something like this except with a red vibe instead of a blue one like this one
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Anon01/06/26, 10:28No.463327
26 is the year of red and blue.Mostly red cuz red is first.2 = red6 = white, blue, black. grey
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Anon01/16/26, 17:21No.463412
Not a single one of your retards actually got it right
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Anon01/21/26, 00:51No.463439
Can we have a comebck of the 90s jungle or 2000s pacific island aesthetic?
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Anon02/05/26, 06:53No.463619
The 2030 aesthetic must be in observance of the Torah and Sanhedrin's Noahide Laws unironically
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Anon02/05/26, 07:11No.463621
A.I. slop creep
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Anon02/15/26, 02:54No.463701
I'm not really sure, but I think bland corporate minimalism, and a lack of color, is going to be a foundation of it. everything is so fucking bland now (architecture, company logos, everything)
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Anon03/09/26, 01:05No.463859
Flat design feels like what they’ve been accumulating to for years. It’s quick, it’s easy, cheap enough to get Indians to do it while being able to imply there’s still a science to it so you can say there’s talent involved etc“Why get any better than this” says the soulless corpo trendsetters
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Anon07/11/26, 23:27No.464546
the next aesthetic is going to be a frutiger aero + flat design like liquid glass, everything apple does is copied by everyone
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Anon09/08/26, 01:21No.464798
I'm just gonna leave this here
