Everywhere you look there’s grays, tans, whites, and other minimalist color palettes being highlighted as the new “chic.” Have you ever wondered why that is?
I see this question a lot about why this generation is so hooked on 80s and 90s nostalgia. Why people keep referencing older trends instead of creating new ones. The crazy thing is this generation’s trend is the ability to manifest all past trends in one—a collective variety if you will.
People miss the authenticity in seeing fresh ideas, yet are being told fresh ideas won’t take you anywhere. A prime example of this is the state of Hollywood. Take a drink every time they make a reboot or turn something into a live-action film. You’ll be drunker than Frank Gallagher from the TV Show “Shameless.”
Nostalgia is keeping creativity on life support right now, in my opinion. Even today’s music is starting to sound like music from the last 4 decades.
This is all an inevitable outcome. When you tell the youth for the last couple of decades to focus on basic skills instead of expanding their minds, you tend to leave out the seasoning needed to make great artists.
Making creative jobs seem scarce and unfairly unpaid scares people to sacrifice their dreams in order to chase stability. For the longest, it was about STEM programs and highlighting careers like engineering and medical science. Now we are seeing the harm in excluding the importance of the humanities & arts.
Moving the goal posts within the medical field and the sudden disappearances of scientists the past 2 years as they cut their funding programs…maybe STEM careers are in danger now, too…unless you work for A.I.
This push for colorless environments, dull fashion, one size fits all technology that has looked the same for the last 15 years, repetitive entertainment…it feels forced, no?
I never got onto the minimalist push. Makes me feel cold and restricted. I do think you can be creative and love minimalism, but why is it becoming such a mood killer?
As creators and artists, it is our job to make sure whimsicality and personality does not leave. We can’t let professional gray and khaki brown take over the world.
The mixture of patterns, textures, and intricate designs have even become something rare, and “vintage” given this last decade has been about less.
Maybe the future begs for more, and it’s time we start listening to deliver.
“We are being asked to reduce the creativity and complexity of our ordinary lives to cultural slaughter; we are being bullied into understanding the vital exchange of passionately held views as a collapse of intelligence and civility; we are being asked to regard public education with hysteria and dismantle rather than protect it; we are being seduced into accepting truncated, short-term, CEO versions of our wholly human future. Our everyday lives may be laced with tragedy, glazed with frustration and want, but they are also capable of fierce resistance to the dehumanization and trivialization that politico-cultural punditry and profit-driven media depend upon.” – Toni Morrison
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