Is Retro really the 'trend' thing now?
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- biggusdickus
Is Retro really the 'trend' thing now?
- spongebob0
no
- spongebob0
no
- digilee0
As I possibly said in the other thread with the same name, no is the new yes?
- Nairn0
define 'retro'.
- chameleonic0
pah! does it matter? retro is no more 'in' than it has been the past 20 years or so. things from the past will always have an aesthetic and nostalgic value. so retro is in. has been in and will be in tomorrow. read up on your post-post-hyper-modern-ity.
- digilee0
retro is so in it's gone retro again?
- ********0
ever since the fifties, when pushpin studios presented an alaternative to the prevailing corporate modernism, there has always been a portion of the design community devoted to celebration of the imperfection and vitality of vernacular expression
- ribit0
what did he just say?
- ********0
sorry, I channeled that
- Nairn0
There are no new ideas.
Everything is retro.
Well, except for 2A, of course.
- Retro0
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- ********0
2A is someone's idea of what retro will look like in the future
- sherman0
i also need a definition. retro in terms of the internet or retro in terms of day to day life?
- Nairn0
proto-retro, then?
- ********0
2A is like Flash Gordon was in the 30s--an already passe vision of a future that will never be
- digilee0
Retro is soooooo last millennium dahhrrrling!