Forgive the horrendousness of the pun in the title, but there is a web trend that appears to be expanding, and I can’t think of anything more fitting.

Remember before the G8 summit this summer, when the Make Poverty History campaign was at it’s highest peak of popularity? Live8 was all anybody was talking about, whether it was about the poverty in Africa or the reunion of Pink Floyd? Far more prominent than the white wristbands that I occasionally saw around town were the white diagonal blog-corner stripes that suddenly seemed to be all the rage. Although the practice of using these particular stripes has faded significantly (primarily because the next G8 summit is not for another year yet), it can still be seen in the corners of some blogs.

I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with this stripe: rather, I think it’s for an excellent and outstanding cause, and I’m sure there was much good that came out of it.

What I am seeing now, as a hot trend in the design galleries, can probably be attributed at least partly to the high saturation of sites with this corner-stripe. Sites such as these are all currently using varying incarnations of the cornerstripe.

I’ve got no complaints about this, it’s merely an observation of the popularization of a trend. They certainly make for a possible alternative to the sticker in terms of eye-catching attention grabbers. Their staying power is even relatively high, as they are generally unobtrusive, and for example in the Cuban Council link provided above, work in with the layout and colour scheme very nicely. Without said stripe, on many occasions, you might even say that something is missing, just that little detail that brings everything together in a concise way. I’m a fan, they are quite fadtastic.

So, stripe one up for these little diagonal corner banners.

oi, again with the puns. I need a coffee.

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