Every few months, a new design trend takes over your feed. ASCII art. Liquid glass. Renaissance paintings. Frutiger Aero. But do they actually work - on real brands, with real constraints? Grayson from @graysonsgraphics put them to the test the honest way: by redesigning his own brands. His studio identity, his newsletter, his clothing store, his Spotify page. Four trends. Four real-world applications. One very humbling encounter with liquid glass. This is Creatively Obsessed - where we get into the psychology and process behind how designers actually think and make. In this video: 00:00 — The trend problem (and why it's actually worth caring about) 00:20 — ASCII Art → Redesigning Grayson's Graphics 05:07 — Liquid Glass → Redesigning The Creative Brief newsletter 08:00 — Renaissance → Redesigning Paint Factory 12:40 — Frutiger Aero → Redesigning his Spotify page 15:00 — Final verdict: which trends have legs?Assets used in this video: Fonts, backgrounds & graphics sourced from Envato → https://elements.envato.com/?utm_source=creativelyobsessedyoutube&utm_medium=LUTS&utm_campaign=creativelyobsessed Creatively Obsessed is a series from Envato Tuts+ where industry creatives pull back the curtain on the obsessions, rabbit holes, and half-finished experiments that make their work tick. 🔔 Subscribe for new tutorials every week → https://www.youtube.com/@envatotuts