Cassette Futurism
カセット・フューチャリズム / 1977–1990s / retro revival / Aesthetic / Visions of the Future
The future as the 1980s imagined it: CRTs, physical buttons, thermal paper and squared-off white plastic — matte pragmatism now reappraised as the alternative to seamless sci-fi.
CRTs and physical buttons / Squared-off white plastic / Dot-matrix displays / Matte pragmatism
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Nostromo in Alien / Alien: Isolation's recreation / retrofuturism studies