Graphic Design Trends in 2018 │My favorite 5 styles
━│Graphic Design Trends│━
This year we'll be witnesses of styles from a few decades ago arriving in a first row with contemporary ones but what makes this year's game more interesting are the futuristic styles that are finally catching their place in between those two. And now we will travel from the broken letters thrown all around an empty poster to the overlayed transparent images and colours trying to float in our space. Can you even imagine those combinations merged together? Well, let's go check that magic of visual collaboration that is already out there lurking for utilization!
No. 1│Glitch, the broken visualia
Interferences, distortion and broken looks are its main characteristic but tell me something...would you ever imagine that some unexpected result of a malfunction, something against we are fighting all those years to improve it in our modern society will become one of the main styles in today visualization of our surrounding. Sound pretty absurd to me but that's exactly why I simply can't take my eyes of this amazing phenomena!
No. 2│Cyber brightness, colors in waves of retrofuturism
The magical 80's and the birth of the graphic style that has travelled with us toward this day when we will once again incorporate this magnificent colours back into our lives. Back then was now! And now we are witnessing the rebirth - renovation of the wave. Neon lights, misty bright colours, fiction and imagination in one word that is taking place in its greatest appearance. Synthwave! The nostalgia mode is definitely on!
No. 3│Disjoined text, forget the rules of space
Playing with letters, throwing them around, reforming and finding new positions and composing an image with them is now more popular then has ever been before! It is a relatively new movement but I find this style most popular in a bunch of new websites although even flyers and movie posters are starting to take their own the initiative to come along. Would you call this kind of art a creative mess?
No. 4│Sliced text, cut the design
At first, you could say that this entry has similar paths with Disjoined text style but not so quite actually. Well, there are letters still but here we are talking about one simple and brilliant move in design history. A slice! A slice of a knife over text or how I like to call it ''a cut'' over the words. This is not so much of a new style, we saw it already all around the media even a few years back. I personally have seen it mostly in fashion industry and I'm watching it there again in even more of new combinations.
No. 5│Colour channels, the art of transparency
This style reminds me of a Cyber Brightness and The Glitch styles somehow merged together but separated in transparent layers one over the another. To put it simple as it is, this is a (digital) process of separating colours and combining them in transparent mode in layers. You can find this Colors channel style in both text and image designs.
These are my favourite graphic design style choices for 2018 that I'm looking forward to seeing implementing into our everyday life but out there in the world there are much more styles at the moment which are starting to ignite and change principles of design as we know it. Now, this list will take forever if I continue to write about all these but still I can't resist to give you a few more honourable mentions:
- Illustrations Over Photos
- Negative Space Typography
- Colorful 3D Substance
- Papercut Illustrations
A question for the conclusion
So, through my 5 main picks above you can tell that I love cyberspace, messy and glowy worlds, lines and anomalies much like simplicity and plainness. Some of those styles we still like to call abstract ones and especially when we merged them together. Now I'm asking you, how long do you think will be needed until world translate abstract to normal once again?
Until next time...
Photo sources:
http://www.suttonyoung.co.nz/blog/2018-graphic-design-trend-08-glitch-and-ruined-effect
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/405675878919300290/
http://www.magdiellopez.com/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/839569555505882110/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/308989224428757477/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AUQjV8cRAGgSwcZlPwlt8lvjFiw86NMZsvCAPK1RuCD8iMw1WZozjRA/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/853432198108123273/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/302304193715944548/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/806285139511267788/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/835558537087934364/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/252483122829817398/
https://yesimadesigner.com/2018-graphic-design-trends-master/
https://weheartit.com/entry/85818167
https://www.behance.net/gallery/25243891/FST
http://www.impawards.com/2017/flatliners_ver4.html
https://graphicmama.com/blog/graphic-design-trends-2018/
Disclaimer: Some designs and images are from previous years and are here just to imply on upcoming styles!
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As I grew up I was always anti-trends because I wanted to be original and not follow the crowd. Now I have a different perspective, and don't mind it anymore because I realized that you can still use trends, be original, and not follow the crowds. haha :P Thank you for the great post, Megy :)
And as I've read somewhere before, trends just cycle in and out.
I forgot I wanted to share this link too:
Same here, but as you grow up and learn more about how our society works you start to realize exactly that what you are saying now and what the guy in this video is showing us! Untill 20-30 years ago the world was an isolated place, from itself... until the times of internet and easy spread of information every country has the same music beat but with the lyrics on their own language (just an example). So, the internet era starts and everybody starts to combine everything with everything, borrowing, stealing or just mixing (like the guy say at the start of the video). But the internet thing has been now with us for like 30 years and we have read every story so far, heard every type of music, watched every kind of movie in a relatively short time, and why it that? Because we make things, like you said, just cycle in and out! But now, now comes the times when we have to push forward! My point from a context of this post is that these few years in front of us will be the greatest experimentation so far of everything we have learn and experience. Past, present and imaginative future are coming together in a way that we cannot any more control it all together but instead, we will have to adapt our selves to the product that we have set on fire a few decades ago and the world will become one hell of a self-sustainable machine. Anyway, don't thank me Doddledanga, I have to thank you for understanding how ''things'' are working out there because now it is important for the people to realize what kind of times are coming with this new movement that we are part of it in here and I just want to add to the conclusion one important thing: These few decades of internet existence that we are part of are just an overture into the times that are going to shape our lives and lives of our successors.
Tnx for sharing the video! It is a great one!
Megy
Hey MeGy, great article... looks like everything old is new again :) I'm fun of this glitch style, things can look just wow... :)
Thank you Korana, I appreciate that kind of comment from a professional! Yes, old becomes new and new becomes old.
I'm also most excited about glitch style and ''retrofuturism'' because my favourite genre, cyberpunk and synthwave colours, are finally dissolving from virtual world to reality. Looking forward to seeing all those new/old designs in upcoming years! :)
Never really paid attention to the styles of graphic designs, for me it was always "I like it or I don't" . You opened up a whole new world for me and thank you for that. :)
Prijatelju nisu samo stilovi putovali ahahhaha i mozgovi su lutali po svemiru :D
I'm glad I did! Everything got its own depth if you allow yourself to peek into it!
Mozgovi i dalje lutaju, a stilovi ce i dalje samo putovati! :)
This could be a quote on a picture for motivating people :D Very nicely put.
Uhvatio si me u rijecima hahah, trebao sam bolje srociti :) Posteno :D
I like Colour channels, the art of transparency. Looks good.
Indeed! It is also one of the old styles and now is starting to get some ''colour on its skin''!
VERY GOOD #2 RETROFUTURISM
Thank you! :)
Agree, retrofuturism looks cool
True, but it is hard to decide! All of them looks good and interesting! :)
bookmarked. Cool post!!!
Thank you, I appreciate that!
The first design trends post I have read and not gone "WTF is this" or maybe it is because this is "print" design which is always a cut above in my opinion. Great selections I like each style in their own right and will definitely be "stealing" some ideas.
I can dream
Thank you, I'm happy that you like it! And I appreciate your thoughts!
Well, about that quote, I can't fully agree although it has some truth! But the part that is true comes from a manipulative and side effect nature which are times that are passing now! I would go more like this:
But in essence, our quotes are coming to the same conclusion!
watching this you probably like blade runner and altered carbon :)
You guessed it, my friend! One of my favourites in all cinema history! ;)
Cyber brightness seems my favorite.. Even though all designs are cool. Art is free so there is something for everyone...
Nice articel, and thanks for sharing knowledge, I never thought about them styles :) But now I know...
need to show this to my lil' sister, she is into design...
Thank you, lipi moj! :)I'm glad you learned something! Spread the word! ;)