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The trend toward subdued color palettes. Every new home is decorated in "millennial gray." Most cars are black, white, gray, or silver. You have to go out of your way to find bright, colorful clothing or furniture. It's incredibly boring and I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back the other way.
that's one of the reasons I specifically picked a bright lime green for my car
I really thought we’d have a vibrant post pandemic ‘roaring 2020’s’. Seems like it wasn’t handled right and so we’re sort of still stuck in the same doldrums.
Don't worry, it will. I'm a designer and the one thing you can count is all of us designers get bored every few years and flip things around. That's how buttons keep shifting from rounded corners to square corners every few years.
I fucking hate these new vehicles with the paint that has no sparkle to it, especially the horrible grey one. So called Putty ass-whips
Your link made me remind one more thing i absolutely hate: TALKING HEADS. Like bloody hell TV and video was made to present visual content and comments and the same time, not for me to look on some selfappointed youtube personality yapping just so his video is few minutes longer wasting my time.
Also podcasts, audiobooks and generally the trend to make everything audible. I mean i do not mind this by itself, but i would love to have a transcript so i don't need to wade through hours of senseless yapping and unfun banter to find the info i need to.
It looks like primer and the car is unfinished
It's the shape of things, too. They have no character.
I was shopping for door knobs recently, because all the knobs in this house are spherical and smooth. They're impossible to grip. We have a disabled person in the house who struggles to turn them. Gloves slip right off.
At the hardware store is an entire aisle full of doorknobs, but nearly all of them are the exact same smooth spherical shape. The rest were ugly rectangular lever styles that work but look very industrial in a home that's mostly natural textures.
Somehow all these brands, finishes, locking features, price ranges, dozens of product variations, and literally only two doorknob shapes. Both so minimalist as to be almost impractical.
I had to settle for the lever style for one door, and just put grip tape on the others.
Everything being extruded, quickest to make crap is getting ridiculous. Even the expensive stuff looks like IKEA.
I miss craftsmanship and artistry.
In many places doorknobs are being phased out of codes precisely because they aren't accessible like a lever style is.
I hate that. I had my home built to spec a few years ago. The exterior siding is cedar shake stained a chocolatey brown with forest green trim, and the interior is white walls but with natural wood trim, pale golden laminate wood flooring, and two tone hickory wood cabinets, and the interior doors are all just natural wood unpainted.
I’ve leaned into the wood aesthetic with my DIY standing desk and custom pine desktop stained a dark red oak color, among various other earth tone color hints, and splashes of brighter decoration here and there.
Was going for “cozy cabin/cottage” and I think we nailed it. It’s very rustic.
I really hate the modern trends of white, black, steel, and glass.
Yeah it's so depressing when everything looks dull and muted everywhere 😬