Huh. Obviously Rain and I disagree here, but practically every image looked like something I’d seen before. (Hand holding globe, two hands shaking firmly, etc). My suspicion is that your graphic artist in many cases took existing clip art and modified it to match the style of the website. Which is better than just grabbing the closest clip-art you can find, but still: the whole reason clip-art is bad is not because it actually is clip-art, but because it looks like something you got off the shelf.
They might not actually be clip art, but they definitely look like clip art. Even the ones that are specific to the Singularity Institute have a generalized, vanilla feel to them.
If you want me to be entirely honest? Scrap that whole design and get a different company to design your website.
To me, when I first saw them, they definitely looked like clip art, except that in some cases the SI logo had been edited in.
I wish I could upvote what Raemon said several times: “the whole reason clip-art is bad is not because it actually is clip-art, but because it looks like something you got off the shelf.”
Thanks for your feedback. Just a small note: the graphics on the website were developed specifically for the website, and are thus not clip art.
Huh. Obviously Rain and I disagree here, but practically every image looked like something I’d seen before. (Hand holding globe, two hands shaking firmly, etc). My suspicion is that your graphic artist in many cases took existing clip art and modified it to match the style of the website. Which is better than just grabbing the closest clip-art you can find, but still: the whole reason clip-art is bad is not because it actually is clip-art, but because it looks like something you got off the shelf.
They might not actually be clip art, but they definitely look like clip art. Even the ones that are specific to the Singularity Institute have a generalized, vanilla feel to them.
If you want me to be entirely honest? Scrap that whole design and get a different company to design your website.
They didn’t look like clip art to me; they were too appropriate for the presented subjects.
Also, ’twould be odd for clip art factories to make clip art with the Singularity Institute logo in it. :)
To me, when I first saw them, they definitely looked like clip art, except that in some cases the SI logo had been edited in.
I wish I could upvote what Raemon said several times: “the whole reason clip-art is bad is not because it actually is clip-art, but because it looks like something you got off the shelf.”