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Incredible how everything except flat is colourful and had personality. It's the kind of poo poo that makes you believe in the illuminati or new world order or some poo poo. Why are they taking the joy away!!
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Killingyouguy! posted:Incredible how everything except flat is colourful and had personality. It's the kind of poo poo that makes you believe in the illuminati or new world order or some poo poo. Why are they taking the joy away!! Apple are the Godkings as far as designers think. Once Apple rejected skuemorphism and went minimalist with iOS 7, everything had to follow.
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I especially hate the way the human figures are drawn in the flat design. The worst cartoon style ever.
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i want to live in a Memphis Taco Bell.
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drat its weird how people prefer the dominant aesthetic from a bygone era, one they aren't currently immersed in and encountering every day
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https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/frasurbane https://www.reddit.com/r/GVCDesign/
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The Merkinman posted:Apple are the Godkings as far as designers think. Once Apple rejected skuemorphism and went minimalist with iOS 7, everything had to follow. I’m sorry, but the skeuomorphism of old iOS/OSX was dogshit
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Alaois posted:drat its weird how people prefer the dominant aesthetic from a bygone era, one they aren't currently immersed in and encountering every day familiarity breeds contempt What irritates me most about UI designs is the lack of ability to change anything other than wallpaper these days.
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Being so prevalent and recognizable, those design patterns are linked to their era more than anything else. It's completely tied to how that era makes you feel.
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Happy Landfill posted:Relevant to the recent graphic design discussion, someone on Reddit posted this graphic about the different eras of graphic design from 1980's to today. Interesting to see that each era's aesthetic doesn't really get solidified until at least three or four years in to the decade, which could be why we keep joking that the 90's lasted until at east 2002. The graphic is really big so I'll just post a link to the thread topic I feel like the 90s ended in stages. In terms of aesthetics, it ended in October 2001 when the iPod came out and the sleek minimalism replaced the 90s vibe. In terms of politics and general culture/society, it obviously ended on September 11, 2001. In terms of music, not so sure. I was a late bloomer in terms of musical interest so I'm sure someone else could say more than me. In terms of fashion... yeah. lol. I'm a goon, take a guess how my fashion sense is. In terms of film, 1999. The Matrix ended the 90s.
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Gonz posted:https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/frasurbane Now HERE'S the good poo poo
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I feel like the 90s ended in stages. This is definitely the better way to look at it. It really is amazing to think how the iMac and the iPod changed everything when it came to aesthetics
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Happy Landfill posted:This is definitely the better way to look at it. It really is amazing to think how the iMac and the iPod changed everything when it came to aesthetics It even changed iProduct iNames. Companies just think: "copy what Apple is doing*" *Which for a while was "copy what Braun did decades ago" I guess when Apple shows off their XR headset next week, we'll know what all products will look like for the next decade.
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i'm waiting for translucent plastic shells to have their big comeback.
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Happy Landfill posted:This is definitely the better way to look at it. It really is amazing to think how the iMac and the iPod changed everything when it came to aesthetics Not for the better.
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uber_stoat posted:i'm waiting for translucent plastic shells to have their big comeback. Pretty sure that shits still available in prisons.
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look at that beautiful radioactive looking thing. be still my heart.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Now HERE'S the good poo poo I like Frasurbane, but as a child in the 90s, Utopian Scholastic is what really does it for me. https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/utopian-scholastic
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:In terms of music, not so sure. I was a late bloomer in terms of musical interest so I'm sure someone else could say more than me. The POD album with "Youth of the Nation" and SOAD's "Toxicity" both came out on 9/11, so that feels like a pretty solid way to define the music decade as well. Nu-metal certainly existed in the late '90s, but starting around that time, it was everywhere. Then again, Linkin Park's first album was in late 2000 and it's hard to get more 2000's than that, but it still seems like a little bit of an outlier.
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The Merkinman posted:It even changed iProduct iNames. Companies just think: "copy what Apple is doing*" https://www.trulydeeply.com.au/2009/09/isnack-2-0-when-brand-naming-goes-wrong/
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I've been on a bit of an aesthetics binge lately. I found this interesting yet somewhat lengthy youtube video about Y2K design which I really enjoyed. Looking back the techno-optimisim looks hilariously dated and out of touch but it holds a special place in my heart. I was in my late teens and early 20s in that period. My life revolved around two things then, technology and the house, trance and club scene. Feel like I was fully immersed in this poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMeoeGGEimE Nowher has a new favorite as of 08:06 on Jun 3, 2023 |
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The Merkinman posted:Apple are the Godkings as far as designers think. Once Apple rejected skuemorphism and went minimalist with iOS 7, everything had to follow. This is a huge part of it, but another dimension to consider is that increased domestic visibility with shorter content cycles means much greater instant feedback and trends towards more simple/modular aesthetics. You can see it in youth fashion-- even the stuff they take from the past is the stuff that's very easy/quick to change and "looks" rarely go more than a few deviations from the norm.
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Nowher posted:I've been on a bit of an aesthetics binge lately. I found this interesting yet somewhat lengthy youtube video about Y2K design which I really enjoyed. Techno-optimism is a really spot-on way to refer to it 
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Windows 98 let you have a web page AS YOUR DESKTOP BACKGROUND! what DIDNT the future hold!?
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The Merkinman posted:It even changed iProduct iNames. Companies just think: "copy what Apple is doing*" There are even mutual funds named iShares. Not to mention if you look at Windows 11 they are still trying to copy OS#.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Windows 98 let you have a web page AS YOUR DESKTOP BACKGROUND! what DIDNT the future hold!? "Active Desktop." Two words that deserve to remain in the past, unspoken.
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uber_stoat posted:i'm waiting for translucent plastic shells to have their big comeback. That and the surreal early 3D stuff like on trapper keepers and poo poo are unironically the aesthetic things I miss most from the 90s and unironically enjoy. They're both so good.
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Didn't Trapper Keepers come back?
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They are indeed back. I thought about getting one for my daughter but her school already gives their students binders and she doesn’t need more crap to stuff in her backpack. Am I in a minority in finding Y2K-era tech/electronic device aesthetics to be utterly awkward? All the weird bubbly shapes, the superfluous curves and flourishes and poo poo never appealed to me at all, even when they were contemporary. I did like the transparent/translucent stuff but the design was just, idk, janky looking. I also thought that Apple’s skeuomorphism was tacky, and any themes on Linux DEs that tried to mimic it were even worse, where everything had this cheap plasticky look. I’m probably just a weirdo for having this opinion or even having an opinion on it.
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No, you're right: it was pretty bad on all fronts. Garishly designed, cheaply made, ergonomically awful. As Braun-aping as Apple's later design was, at least it killed that.
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I have some nostalgic affection for the clear plastic curvy stuff but not inasmuch as I'd like it to come back in any way. What I love is the early 80s silver and wood paneling of like an old Pioneer hifi. That's the good poo poo.
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Yeah no one really wants skeumorphism to come back as a whole, but integrating elements like colored translucent plastic occasionally is y'know, not a bad thing.
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I have and always thought that the 1998 VW "New Beetle" was hilariously dated and not in the good way the original design was. Heck they came out with a redesign a few years ago that's more faithful to the older models and it blows the 98 "New Millennium!" look out of the water
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Beastie posted:I have and always thought that the 1998 VW "New Beetle" was hilariously dated and not in the good way the original design was. It helps that the original Beetle is actually built out of its defining structural components, as opposed to the New Beetle, which is a Golf underneath a fuckton of paneling
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Heath posted:What I love is the early 80s silver and wood paneling of like an old Pioneer hifi. That's the good poo poo. Oh for sure. I acquired my parents’ old hifi from the mid ‘70s/early ‘80s with that aesthetic, and it’s classy and warm without looking archaic. Modern systems, with the advent of MP3, followed by Bluetooth and streaming, just seem, idk, empty and sterile. Not to mention a lack of functionality. I can get my rig—which consists of a receiver and amp, turntable, cassette and open-reel decks, and an 8-track deck—to work with my phone with a Bluetooth aux adapter; but if you get a modern hifi system, it’s going to have the cheapest components because who the hell cares about any of those other formats anymore, right? Except you may as well get a Bluetooth speaker and call it a day. aight gonna go yell at a cloud now root beer has a new favorite as of 20:22 on Jun 4, 2023 |
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More about aesthetics; I found a couple of cool posts on Tumblr talking about the 80's Memphis style, how it was so specific to the tail end of the 80's and early 90's and why it keeps getting conflated with the 90's style . Basically how styles do not end immediately with the decade and always spill over in to the next, hence why it's totally fine to bring up the early 2000's in the 90's thread  90's is better defined by dirty grunge aesthetic and distressed type-writer font..but then also segueing into embracing digital trends and the like https://www.tumblr.com/waffled0g/719301686352576512/everyone-gets-the-90s-look-wrong-and-i-hate-it https://www.tumblr.com/dingdongyouarewrong/719485575190675456/everyone-gets-the-90s-look-wrong-so-lets-fix-it And yeah, any 80's style that doesn't include wood paneling everywhere is just wrong  edit: Also, this is a very cool page that details all the different design styles from the different eras. Neat stuff! https://cari.institute/aesthetics Edit again: Another good post from them where they talk Hypnospace Outlaw and Vaporwave https://www.tumblr.com/waffled0g/719504603447705600/how-good-is-hypnospace-outlaw-at-the-90s?source=share Happy Landfill has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Happy Landfill posted:https://www.tumblr.com/dingdongyouarewrong/719485575190675456/everyone-gets-the-90s-look-wrong-so-lets-fix-it Had to fix your link to part 2 of that rant because it wasn’t working right. It’s spot on though, that’s definitely the true beginning of the aesthetic ‘90s
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Hello rabbit hole. This is great, thanks for sharing.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Had to fix your link to part 2 of that rant because it wasn’t working right. It’s spot on though, that’s definitely the true beginning of the aesthetic ‘90s Oh, thank you! Didn't catch that! Fixed it in my post pumped up for school posted:Hello rabbit hole. This is great, thanks for sharing. You're welcome! It's super cool seeing all the different styles laid out like that and what years they were popular in Happy Landfill has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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