Phew! After some late nights our CARI site is finally up! While it's still a work-in-progress, we've compiled quite a bit of our research over the past few years in here!
I've got some fun ideas for the future, eg. each aesthetic page themed in its respective style
It's official! Our CARI website is finally up & open to explore!
After years of hard work by our dedicated team, we've created this platform to share our research into the ever-expanding landscape of 1970s-present consumer design.
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@DeltaPoliticsUS@zyudhishthu It's more of an umbrella term for a bunch of styles going on in the 90s, but I have a lot of examples under 'Global Village Coffeehouse'. In that particular example there's some influences from Cubism along with Primitive Americana folk art
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@r0ughedged Very cool find, missed this one somehow! It's very of it's time though, basically mainstream MTV pulling from the early 1990s rave subculture - the cyberdelic backgrounds, techno bg music, cute little TDR-esque characters that almost every rave flyer had https://t.co/tRKDswL0Cp
@horridhandle@hecku_back There's also some elements that seem tied to what we call 'Vectorheart', part of the overall deconstructivist movement & very prominent in the 90s-00s across several design fields - esp. graphic design & architecture
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@horridhandle@hecku_back I don't think we have a perfect category for it but I would say there's elements of grunge graphic design but more digital, less analog - I see a lot of chopped-up, warped, overlaid urban/transport imagery in stock images from the time - these are from DigitalVision Fusion (1999)
@heartmorgue The first image is the Le Coco Beach at Belle Mar, Mauritius - it's one of my scans from the book, Hospitality & Restaurant Design No. 1 (1999)
@charmy3000 sometimes i regret ever posting those first wallpapers to the frutiger aero group in 2018 when there were like ten people in there -- it's hard to anticipate how the research gets interpreted, especially when it was so loose & small-scale at the time
@triplett84285@JoshLipnik Could be totally wrong, but I think it's unlikely - looks like it was a streamline moderne home from 1939 that got a 70s-80s 'Shed'/Sea Ranch-style update with the wood paneling and little shingle roof awning.
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@teswoketoi I mainly blame PB Elemental (even though I like alot of their work) - I think they caused that big shift to the 'modern box' style in seattle the late 00s -- before, you could make a version of this meme with all the cheap, 90s-00s faux-craftsman townhomes
@JoshLipnik Wow that really holds up, and looks way ahead of its time! I see tons of designs like those from the very late 80s through the late 90s, that industrial-deconstructivist look
@AlexJKelly@OtherFish_@DIRK_STRANGLER Memes about him on early youtube, digg, YTMND, etc. were making fun of his stilted acting, and the cheesy moralistic stuff on that show -- but it was also a bit of 'he's an action badass in bad movies', kinda like the niche Steven Segal filled at the time
@AlexJKelly@OtherFish_@DIRK_STRANGLER I was very online back then as a teen; can attest that it was at least partially ironic because he was well-known for that awful walker texas ranger show that would just play all the time on TV -
@MarikoRawralton@kalomaze yea its called that incorrectly, that style is honestly the polar opposite - it doesn't have anything to do with windows metro, and everything to do with the peak of 'vector maximalism/vectordelia' inspired by 60s-70s psychedelia & pop art
@JonnyD@PolyDepression Just to add; at the time it was probably also associated with The Attik, a design firm that may be the true pioneers of the style -- here's the graphics they did for a magazine, Plazm iss. #20, in '98(!) - some of their earlier stuff going back to '95 has hints of this style too
@JonnyD@PolyDepression It had a few names at the time: Metalheart, Depthcore, and derisively 'Trendwhore' later on as it became oversaturated in online design communities - https://t.co/cpnEkEA3Jf