For people who don’t know, Corporate Memphis (aka Alegria, Homoglobo) is a style of illustrations that features extrahuman attributes, such as non proportional bodies and non-existing skin colors. It has been credited to Facebook, and was explicitly made to be modular (as in designers are replaceable).

Obviously beauty is subjective, but to me this style has strong connotations of cynical corporations, eerie feelings of minimalist facelessness, toxic positivity and an anxious alignment with current political winds, clear enough to minimize scrutiny but vague enough to be entirely unactionable. The mood words are growth hacking and user engagement.

...are we looking at the same image? https://cdn.w3.org/cms-uploads/Hero-illustrations/groups.svg ? I don't think that's "Corporate Memphis". A distant relative at best, but it's main similarity is being a little bit abstracted. I kind of like it, actually, as iconified people go.

Not only that, there's also the Islamic/Hadith ban of depicting any person, making this a particular bad idea (if the reduction to role models in a corporate memphis style graphic isn't dehumanizing enough in itself).

Yes please! There's no point in having the image/illustration too. Yes it would be dead/white space but thats not an issue at all

I like when softwares have quirky logos / graphics with personality, like Linux, Plan9, openbsd, there's a bunch more but can't think of them on the top of my head

May be a facet of the page they have no control over and is a bit besides the point