Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

Architectural designer, Co-founder of CARI; Y2K, Frutiger Aero, McBling, GVC, Whimsigothic, Factory Pomo, Frasurbane, CGXC, Gen-X SC, etc. Patreon in link

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

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

[Y2K Aesthetic Institute 💽 @y2k_aesthetic]

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.

https://t.co/bahGX0bcJd

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@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

https://t.co/jHU0rQEs8x

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@KaiserBeamz goes with the whole carnival/circus thing that was really big for most of the 2000s https://t.co/UQbBwBk7Vs

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@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

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@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

https://t.co/HJ3TQPN2E0

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@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)

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@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)

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@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

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@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.

[Elizabeth Goodspeed @domesticetch]

Big thanks to @being_on_line, @EvanCollins90, and @_MichaelOswell_ for their wonderful insights about naming, etc.!

[Elizabeth Goodspeed @domesticetch]

“What aesthetic is this?” My newest @itsnicethat column is about visual trend culture online, the rise of taxonomic warfare, and what gets flattened when culture becomes searchable infrastructure 🏷️https://t.co/AdcEWAnZDq

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@4freedom321 @uspolitics1111 bot

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@RumbleMario @Ortgeist very frasurbane lol

https://t.co/sZoe9UdjL0

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@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

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@KaiserBeamz Per this article it opened on May 23, 1997 https://t.co/9rV2ZX9odW

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@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

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@consumertc They were really going for a 'fern bar' vibe there for a bit

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@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

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@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 -

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@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

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@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

[Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @EvanCollins90]

@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