Metalheart
メタルハート / 1995–2004 / Style / Digital Texture
The fin-de-millénaire digital style of early-3D chrome, liquid metal, aggressive bevels and lens flares — dressed in techno and sci-fi imagery, it ruled rave flyers and game magazines around Y2K.
Liquid-metal chrome / Aggressive bevels / Lens flares / Techno and sci-fi typography
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 Designers Republic / 1990s rave flyers / the Metalheart book and the digital-chrome revival