Retrofuturism
レトロフューチャリズム / 1970s– / Aesthetic / Digital Culture
Retrofuturism revisits futures imagined in the past through their vehicles, materials, advertising and cosmic visions, preserving both their hope and their blind spots.
Streamlined vehicles and monumental cities / Analog gauges, chrome and vacuum tubes / Space-age advertising type and diagrams / Faded print beside luminous future imagery
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- World-building from past visions of tomorrow · Showing both technological optimism and the predictions that failed
- Type
- Combine assertive period advertising with technical annotations.
- Composition
- Share the field between low horizons, oversized machines and explanatory diagrams.
- Material
- Keep chrome, amber displays, faded paper and painted metal visibly of their period.
- Caution
- Neon plus old machines is not enough. Decide when, by whom and for whom this future was imagined.
- Further study
- Past visions of the future / Space-age advertising / Utopia and bias
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