Are you fond of applying and scrambling old and new design clichés in one helpless web page? Are you one of
thousands not yet enlightened that ‘too much of a good thing is bad’? Are you too engrossed in improvising other designs and not coming up with your own? Being a design dinosaur is a common sickness among designers who tend to be exposed and awed in latest design clichés coming out and copying or improvising them to concentrate on making his / her original design. But this practice isn’t entirely wrong, though. There’s always some "monkey see, monkey do" in design world. Someone comes up with a great logo, Website, package and next thing you know, they’re everywhere.
What’s bothersome in using most design clichés is that it implies you're not using up your own talents as a designer. In graphic designing, ultimate creation to make you cry “Eureka!” may come upon us on our thirtieth attempt. This moment will happen once you really challenge and stretch yourself.
Here, we give you several examples of design clichés which uses seem to have gotten out of hand:
- Swooshes – this logo was started by Nike and before we knew it, "swooshes" were everywhere on Net. It’s obviously been successful for Nike. But if your Internet company try to use this swoosh along with thousands, we can’t guarantee if anyone would remember you.
- Beveled Anything – this give depth to appearance of your graphics and prevent it to look flat and one dimensional. But avoid excessive beveling just because Photoshop now makes it easy. Think about company you're designing for. What sort of image do they want to portray?
