Metalheart
メタルハート / 1995–2004 / Style / UI Expression
Early 3D software gave this fin-de-millénaire style its chrome, liquid metal, aggressive bevels and lens flare. Dressed in techno and science-fiction imagery, it ruled rave flyers and games magazines around Y2K.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Liquid-metal chrome
- Aggressive bevels
- Lens flares
- Techno and sci-fi typography
Best used for
- Club and rave announcements rebuilt with the texture of that era's 3D
- Showing off technology through excess instead of refinement
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Extrude the letters, bevel them deep, and bake in mirror reflections
- Composition
- One large object at center, the ground filled with grids and beams
- Material
- Chrome, liquid metal, lens flare, reflections carrying surrounding color
- Caution
- Polishing it clean in current software removes the rawness that came from the crude renderers of the time, and it becomes something else.
- Further study
- The Designers Republic / 1990s rave flyers / the Metalheart book and the digital-chrome revival
Related entries
- Cyberpunk (サイバーパンク)Shared effects: Futurity / Rebellion.Compare Metalheart and Cyberpunk
- Y2K (ワイツーケー)Shared effects: Futurity.Compare Metalheart and Y2K
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