Design Trends for 2023 Include Simplified 3d
Granville
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GraphicMama released it's design trends for 2023 that Include simplified 3d - sort of the antithesis of Daz. What are your thoughts?
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It is possibly applicable for a very specific business design situation but is much less useful for hobbiests and for designers who don't want their work to look like everyone else's.
Has nothing to do with anything we do here.
Well, if you're doing commercial graphic design of any kind, and looking for a job, it's helpful to understand trends and included a few trendy items in your portfolio, because the people doing the hiring might not have a clue.
Out of interest, if they have an accurate future-scope why are they writing about trends instead of putting their life-savings on a series of horse races or stocks? or do they mean current trends, in what is being used to promote products to be put on sale next year?
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A German theatre direcor in the 1980's said: if you do marry the trend, you will find yourself widowed really soon. And from my experience so far, I think he had a point.
If you google "graphic trends <year>", you'll see oodles of results for any recent year. It's a very common subject, and many, many graphics blogs do this kind of thing. Pantone, fashion magazines, beauty vloggers all predict colours. It's almost required.
and probably nonsense, unless the predictor has enough influence for it to be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Why so much negativity? I thought it was an interesting article. Thanks for posting the link, @Granville
Very interesting. I do think trends are important to know about, then you can follow them or break them. It is just a bit more knowledge and ideas to use, whether in graphic design or in other creative areas. By definition, a trend is developing, changing and transitory. That's why one shouldn't "marry a trend" but rather catch the wave and surf it, then jump onto the next one, if one is either a trend setter or follower.
For mass market retailers, lead times for garment production are quite long. Walmart, for instance, has a colour palette that has to be followed when submitting samples, and that palette established long before orders are placed. Then fabrics are chosen, orders are placed with fabric mills for hundreds of thousands of metres of fabric at a time. Mills submit samples for approval, and those are couriered to garment importers and then to buyers and there's usually back and forth to get the colours right. Only then does fabric production start, and it's the same for accessories and trims. Then the components go to garment manufacturers, garments go in containers and containers go on ships, get unloaded go to distribution warehouses and finally get trucked to stores.
This kind of thing doesn't happen without a lot of thought about what colours customers might want. In the past, trends in the US followed those in Europe, but that's become a less reliable predictor over the past 10 or so years. It's very expensive for everyone involved to get this wrong.
With fast fashion specialty retailers, the process is shortened, and production runs are smaller, but there's a lot more waste involved.
Gosh, I guess this hit a nerve. It's my fault for saying it is the antithesis. I actually think both styles can exist without any shade. If you look at graphic mamas previous years design predictions they are reasonably accurate.
Like @Worlds_Edge, I have enough confidence in my own work that I'm not worried about design trends. Of course I also don't consider myself an artist - only an illustrator.
I do really like the clay style and some of the plasticy styles. Does anyone have any suggestions for shaders?
It is funny about design trends, I remember the ones about colors we should use in our homes or we did. The first years of the 2000s - sky blue and sunny yellow. The 80s, mauve and pink and grey. The 70s, olive green, orange, mustard. It goes on. Or in kitchen designs that are dated, not retro, but dated.
I enjoyed scanning the offerings @Granville, and found some amusing, others intriguing. There were ones that could be jumping off points for folks in 3D to explore.
Don't we all take our cues from the world around us? And that was just another source.
Just like the carpet of leaves I saw after the wind went through my neighborhood yesterday and dropped them, prior to a low dropping into our region.
The trends are fun to read about, but they rarely ever consider accessibility which means they don't translate to the corporate design world. It would be great if you're designing stuff for an influencer or creating some band's album cover, but I have to balance the 'cool' with considerations of colour contrast, readibility, font size, etc. when I design at work.
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing.
While I appreciate the painstaking handiwork of Victorian fashion and decor, among many other complex fashions and designs, practically speaking from everything to an ease of cleaning, ease of re-decorating, ease of noticing problems early, and oddly enough, reasons of safety, I prefer MCM and simpler geometric designs. Also, that sort of aesthetic is assessible for those without much of a budget too. You can even DIY much of it yourself.