Recent Web Designs that Don't Follow Recent Trends
September 7th, 2009 — 18 Comments
Last month I wrote an article on why design trends don’t have to completely disappear, explaining why design trends should live on beyond their acceptance. However, we are now starting to see designs that don’t follow any popular recent trends. What makes the following examples great is that they stand out from the crowd and are instantly memorable for being unique.
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August 20th, 2009 — 10 Comments
Web design trends come and go but when one comes around you can’t miss it. That’s the nature of trends in the web design industry, with the ability to release something that the whole world can see immediately, designers are able to push their designs live very quickly which aides in popularising a trend.
A trend is defined in the dictionary as:
“a general direction in which something is developing or changing”
Usually most designers follow these trends resulting in a number of websites looking very similar in style.
Ever since I saw the guys From the Couch stating that ‘the letterpress trend has to go‘, I thought to myself that it still could have its place in design. Perhaps I wasn’t as bored of it as they clearly are.
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