Design

Related: https://x.com/culture_crit/status/1892322753887285455

H/t @kia

Every aspect of life is being stripped of color.

Many have noticed this trend — but why exactly is it happening?

Something deeper is going on… (thread) 🧵 https://t.co/CFSKmgWgqO

Culture Critic

Dang. I noticed the rise of greyscale and conforming to simpler forms but I didn't realize other people were seeing the physical world in less color.

I just thought this was depression 😭

Refinement culture is probably closely coupled with more identification with the mind as well

Notice how even logos become less and less like the real thing and become identities unto themselves:

Refinement culture is probably closely coupled with more identification with the mind as well

Notice how even logos become less and less like the real thing and become identities unto themselves:

https://warpcast.com/jayme/0xf98a8457

Ah, right. I remember reading into this a lot in previous years when I was doing some freelance graphic design work.

This goes in parallel with ever increasing time on screens which are hyper competitive for real estate and attention.

This feels like the textbook example of where things are headed:

Sorry I misspoke; was trying to fit into 320 chars and then lazily sent!

Meant to include smaller optical space (people consuming more on phones than TVs or print media) and thus designs have to be simplified. Like skeuomorphic → flat design

As for more screen time, we just consume things faster and faster so attention to detail is lost, if not costly. Easier to identify a Starbucks green on a home screen full of apps than look for a complex shape.

I mean it seems like a joke, but Twitter is now Letter

So not too far away from MNCs owning colors and other primitives

Didn't understand the part about increasing screentime -- why does that lead to reduction?

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I still really need to watch this movie!!

I think I know the premise and I think about it more and more as we as people slowly evolve to make less decisions on our own.

The logo reminds me of the scene in WALL-E when the captain bot is slowly creeping up in the portraits 👀