What caused Y2K aesthetic in late 1990s and early 2000s?Seems a bit too much..
>>538799193They also started making cars excessively round and curvy around the same time. I always fucking hated that design trend. I still miss corners.
>>538799193Advances in plastic technology.
>>538799193same as fins on cars in 50swhen the immediate past is hell you want to look forward to a promising futurethe actual design philosophy has its origin in designers like sid mead, who figured shiny reflective metal represented the technological future. it's all memes, grounded in material reality even if just a little. rockets have fins, my chrysler should have fins. future machines will be shiny and reflective and shaped like Marilyn Monroe (according to sid mead) so my boombox should be too. he won over the other memes, like beige office futurism of 90s star trek, and boxy blinkenlights futurism of kubrik. why? memetics, popular appeal and appeal among other influential designers.
>>538799523blame ralph nader for that onecrumple zones for occupant safety and round edges for pedestrian safety
>>538799193>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobject
>>538799523Dunno how but got a stereo which was just a rectangle with sliding doors, played All Star and Life is a Highway
>>538799777Also because human brain like shiny.Plus he was an actual industrial designer so his stuff felt believable.
>>538799193Technological Optimism
It was the Wests introduction into cheap Chinese consumer electronics made to break and be replaced.
>>538799762>Advances in plastic technology.
>>538799193It was really gay. I never thought it could get gayer. Then 2020 happened.
>>538799193manufacturers and designers discovered transparency for plastics and it started a trend. this trend also overlapped with the budding of 3d graphics and shading for games as well as photoshop filters and blending. people yearned for anything that looked like it had depth and smooth blends. 2.5d aesthetic was all the rage back then and it translated into every appliance. then later it was replaced by google's flat style and general globohomo airport airport aesthetic which refocused global design on functionality over form.
>>538800155Wrong,Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene was invented in the 40s and fell out of favour because of the chemical pollution being replaced by polycarbonates in western manufacturing the abs plastic items everything was made in in the 1990s only came back because it was cheaper to manufacture internationally than polycarbonates in countries without restrictions on chemical pollution.>Tldr we started using a technology as old as bakelite because 3rd allowed it
Because my pants fell off and everyone was looking
>>538799193the transparent is because of the techdigital things = transparent plasticyou're paying for what's inside the plastic boxyou can see that in watch making where they make (ugly) watches where you can see the mechanism exactly because that's the selling point of the watchPeople still buy transparent computer towers
While you were in daycare we had Radioshack. Now everything is on your mobile pacifier.
>>538799193We were optimistic back then.
>>538799193>they took this future from us
>>538799762that too"stuff we couldn't even make 10 years ago" (or only at great expense) is the fanciest, until everyone has it and it no longer signals exclusivity, then the zeitgeist is at the mercy of people like jony ivesyou now remember the faint sound and physical jolt of an ipod spinning disc hard drive booting up in your hand
>>538799193Kino
>>538799193>fluidity the last original style.
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>>538800582brrrr skibidi dop dop dop yes yeshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/SGOWSXv1TZ4*slaps ur belly*UwU
>>538800420global supply chains are a technology
>>538799946>>538799193>>538799523it was okay because everybody (starting from the designers & shareholders, and ending with the discount stores and second-hand dealerships) knew it was a trendthey didn't take themselves seriously like the chinese-dick sucking retards today>>538799828that's cope, above 15mph it does not matter if it's a box or a blob, you will break something if you're stupidback in the 2000s they did not give a shit about such copes, that's a 2020+ "design philosophy"
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My guess has always been that computer-aided design and robotization homogenized everything.
>>538799193> What caused Y2K aestheticJony Ive
>>538799193Can you broccoli head Y2K larpers fuck off back to r/frutigeraero please?
>>538800842not really, in the beginning computer-aided design and robotization were handled by people with 20-30 years of experience in the fieldthat's why the '90s and '00s looked good... heck even the '10s... after that they retired and gen X retards took their place... and that was that, we are living in a visual slum now
>>5388008021965, kidreached saturation point in the 90s when nader was so popular he ran for president in a third party ticket, based on 30 years of success as a safety campaignerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed:_The_Designed-In_Dangers_of_the_American_Automobile
>>538800988>believing ralph nader's PRngmi
>>538800735What did they put in your döner today hans-sama
>>538801079No döner for me today, kebap-kun, it is sundayI tried falafel yesterday but it wasn't up to snuff and the meal was not satisfying - I guess the vegetarian döner meta in practice is just not there yet since they are such a tiny fraction
>>538801059who in this thread are you accusing of "believing nader's PR"?did you think my post was an endorsement of nader's views?I'm simply informing you that his views were influential in the transition from kino 80s shitboxes to gay bubbly 90s shitboxes
And flat design is shrinkflation to save expenses.No effort minimalism being shilled as art comparable on the same level like fully drawn masterpiecesDesigns were also simplified in order to maximize profit & cutting costs. Various car brands all have same designs, with monotone gray or black paint (the cheapest paint)
>>538800810>fake window above the bed>window on wall does not have a title barmissed opportunity
>>538799193I was there, I was alive, I had friends.
I hate flat design. I hate corporate Memphis. So lazy, so ugly. Give me back my gradients and nature and bubbles and translucency and rounded corners.
>>538801413just shut the fuck already you retardmaybe kill yourself too if you want to make the world a better place
>>538803617>just shut the fuck alreadylmfao
>>538803077This alt-baddie has you coveredhttps://github.com/diinki/diinki-aerohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx9dHc0MyHs
>>538799193nurbcore
>>538803617>memeflag is chimping out like a niggerAs usual
>>538804306go back to india
>>538799193It was the last fart of the british empire's influence. Glad it died
>>538799193I am glad this aesthetic is returning. I want to get the Nothing Phone. Frontier Aero music is kind of coming back too. Hope. Optimism! I have a few CRTs that are bubbly like this too. Back i do slightly prefer the sharp angular all black CRTs that were in the 80s. Pick related.
