As someone who loves webdesign and is also on their way to start participating in the fashion and clothing industry and was interested in graphic design at one point (which in industry has a ton of overlap with web design) i find this parrellel really interesting.

Fashion industry is one hell of a mess in many ways but honestly. I think people have in their heads seperated the internet, and the place where people create stuff on the internet, two seperate things. People are so used to social media that they dont consider the wider internet to be a place they are able to inhabit which is partially why web design gets boiled down to stale business design.

Its harder to seperate into those rigid boxes of business and art because the entire industry hinges on art. They use bright colors and snappy trends in the same way web ads use buzz words. But unfortunately, the biggest similarity between the environments of indie web design and indie fashion is that actually hand made products are dying out. The idea of couture which was the most "highly" considered form of this has become so unprofitable that there are few designers left.

We have commodified two incredibly wide and expansive mediums of art to be nothing but the commodity and in turn it makes it more difficult for artists to use said medium. But thats just capitalism.

Diving more into the design aspect of it. Like i mentioned earlier a lot of fashion tries to be very eye catchy because sometimes it has to be. There is everyday clothes but then there are companies that make more of their money by selling you the trend then selling you the item if you know what i mean.

Where as in webdesign its not very often that they have to do the same thing. This is excluding social media mostly because its an integral aspect of that trend machine. Static web design doesnt have to sell you an item they (usually) want to get you too see it as?professional and clean. Maybe even playing into visual respectability.

Idk tangent aside its really interesting that that overlap is there and how we can use that when thinking about design as a whole

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