Trends

In class today, we talked about several different trends with regards to web design. They were: Organic, Geometric, and Grunge. For Organic trend, I chose the example of Traders Joe's website because it has a light brown color background fitting with a "earthy" color palette of Organic, as well as images of birds and leaves, and it was not as rigid as other websites. Some of the images leak out of their boxes, and the site is not perfectly symmetrical. For Geometric trends, I feel that the Blaffer Art museum's website is a good example. It uses geometric shapes, such as circles and rectangles, as well as thick bands of color to help give a very orderly, clean, and rigid feel. As for Grunge trend, sites like Spencer's are an example of the graffiti and dirty look often associated with that trend.

The trend I am going to talk in depth today is Organic. Organic is usually associated with earth tone colors, greens, browns, sometimes yellow and blue. It is normally flowing, or asymmetrical keeping in the theme of living, growing things (mostly plants). Most of the time it depicts objects or animals found in nature, like plants, leaves, flowers, birds, various animals, etc. It is appropriate for use with some businesses and non profits, but not with others. Businesses and non-profits that deal with nature, food, and environmental affairs will get good use out of this trend, whereas businesses and non-profits dealing mainly with commerce, technology, urban life, etc , will not find this trend useful.