Reflections, reflections, reflections!

As many of you have probably noticed, a huge design trend these days is the infamous reflection. I am not ashamed to say that I am probably one of the biggest fans of this style. However, I am not a huge fan of throwing perspective out the window. What I mean by this is if you are going to use reflections, you should understand how something would reflect if it was a physical 3d object.

Too often do I see images that are robotically flipped, rotated and opacity-ed but the designer doesn’t take perspective into consideration. If the object is 3d, this tactic doesn’t work mainly because the surface should reflect the planes of the object.