If the designer is reading this thread. My fellow human, please swap out the corporate memphis landing page image with something that's less overused in web design today.
For people who don’t know, Corporate Memphis (aka Alegria, Homoglobo) is a style of illustrations that features extrahuman attributes, such as non proportional bodies and non-existing skin colors. It has been credited to Facebook, and was explicitly made to be modular (as in designers are replaceable).
Obviously beauty is subjective, but to me this style has strong connotations of cynical corporations, eerie feelings of minimalist facelessness, toxic positivity and an anxious alignment with current political winds, clear enough to minimize scrutiny but vague enough to be entirely unactionable. The mood words are growth hacking and user engagement.
extrahuman attributes, such as non proportional bodies and non-existing skin colors
In particular, huge bodies and tiny heads; it's the exact opposite of tiny bodies and huge heads, which also exists as a style, one that is rarer outside of Japan but definitely has an opposite connotation for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi_(style)
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a reincarnation, such is the cycle of trends after all, but I’m pretty sure this iteration is fairy distinct. I would be super curious if you have some examples though. Are you thinking like clipart?
...are we looking at the same image? https://cdn.w3.org/cms-uploads/Hero-illustrations/groups.svg ? I don't think that's "Corporate Memphis". A distant relative at best, but it's main similarity is being a little bit abstracted. I kind of like it, actually, as iconified people go.
Not only that, there's also the Islamic/Hadith ban of depicting any person, making this a particular bad idea (if the reduction to role models in a corporate memphis style graphic isn't dehumanizing enough in itself).
I’m not Islamic, but my understanding is that Islamic aniconism is generally restricted to representational art in religious contexts. Outside of that context there isn’t generally considered to be a prohibition.
I like when softwares have quirky logos / graphics with personality, like Linux, Plan9, openbsd, there's a bunch more but can't think of them on the top of my head
