Vaporwave
ヴェイパーウェイヴ / 2010s / Style / Digital Retro
Turns memories of consumer society and early digital life into dreamlike unease.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Pink and purple
- Classical statues
- Early CG
- Tropics and Japanese text
Best used for
- Handling the internet's strange homesickness
- Unreality for music and art
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Serifs, pixel faces, fragments of Japanese
- Composition
- Floating objects, horizon lines, collage
- Material
- Purple and aqua, low resolution, VHS noise
- Caution
- Don't reduce Japanese to meaningless decoration. Bring criticism or personal memory.
- Further study
- Vektroid / internet vaporwave culture
Related entries
- Tableau Photography (タブロー写真)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Vaporwave and Tableau Photography
- Minimalism (ミニマリズム)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Vaporwave and Minimalism
Often confused with
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- Web 1.0 (ウェブ1.0)Shared effects: Nostalgia / Rebellion.
- Y2K (ワイツーケー)Shared effects: Futurity / Nostalgia.
- Gen X Soft Club (ジェネレーションX ソフトクラブ)Shared effects: Futurity / Nostalgia.
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