ai crawlers rubs hands
seriously this is a great trip down memory lane.
Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
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Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#12I've been using https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthetics_Wiki
Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#13Full of alot of hallucinations and misinformation not very useful nor fun/interesting.
This is a serious project that has been going on for over a decade. In fact, it looks like it hasn’t been updated very much for the past four years or so. So, most of the content predates AI hallucinations. If you can point out specific examples of ”alot” of hallucinations and misinformation, that would be helpful.
Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#14A good idea dragged down by poor UI and lack of content. These are just images with no context or explanation. When did archival displays get such low information density? Not even the names of objects. This is the page with the content they do have: https://cari.institute/aesthetics
Mobile first, because who actually reads anymore?
Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#15These are fun, I like that Encarta of the 1990s has it's own style -- Utopian Scholastic https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic . DK (Dorling Kindersley) and especially Stephen Biesty's books use it, a lot of software in the 90s used it. I wouldn't say today it's particularly interesting or special objectively, but I personally like it mostly because of nostalgia.
I must disagree. Even Encarta had text. DK books are terrific precisely because they give small amounts of text right next to the image it relates to.
This site has no text.
Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#16A good idea dragged down by poor UI and lack of content. These are just images with no context or explanation. When did archival displays get such low information density? Not even the names of objects. This is the page with the content they do have: https://cari.institute/aesthetics
They didn't separate the actual designs of a period from retro looks at that period. See "Diner Klisch", which is more than half retro images. Nice picture of the Aston-Martin Bulldog, listed under Cassette Futurism.[1][2] Clearly the ancestor of the Cybertruck. MOMA (NYC), SFMOMA, and the Tate Modern have good design collections. There's also the Color Association of the United States, which at one time determined w…
What I find fascinating about the site is my own emotional reactions to the various collections. The message is, “this is how they manipulate you, and it works.”
> Color Association of the United States, which at one time determined what the "in" colors would be for each season, announcing this far enough in advance that fabric makers could plan production
Wild, I did not know this. I wonder when beige will come back.
Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#17Full of alot of hallucinations and misinformation not very useful nor fun/interesting.
This is a serious project that has been going on for over a decade. In fact, it looks like it hasn’t been updated very much for the past four years or so. So, most of the content predates AI hallucinations. If you can point out specific examples of ”alot” of hallucinations and misinformation, that would be helpful.
Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#18These are fun, I like that Encarta of the 1990s has it's own style -- Utopian Scholastic https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic . DK (Dorling Kindersley) and especially Stephen Biesty's books use it, a lot of software in the 90s used it. I wouldn't say today it's particularly interesting or special objectively, but I personally like it mostly because of nostalgia.
I must disagree. Even Encarta had text. DK books are terrific precisely because they give small amounts of text right next to the image it relates to. This site has no text.
I think it's more about the visual style overall with or without text. It's not just DK book but Designs for American Museum of Natural History and other example. Software packaging, especially from Microsoft had it.
The text is often a serif font, there is often a white background, and a heavy reliance of clip art. At least for me, it immediately clicked and I recognized it. I just had no idea it had a name and it's identified as a unified "style".
Re: Visual lexicon of consumer aesthetics from the 1970s until now
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
They didn't separate the actual designs of a period from retro looks at that period. See "Diner Klisch", which is more than half retro images. Nice picture of the Aston-Martin Bulldog, listed under Cassette Futurism.[1][2] Clearly the ancestor of the Cybertruck. MOMA (NYC), SFMOMA, and the Tate Modern have good design collections. There's also the Color Association of the United States, which at one time determined w…
What I find fascinating about the site is my own emotional reactions to the various collections. The message is, “this is how they manipulate you, and it works.” > Color Association of the United States, which at one time determined what the "in" colors would be for each season, announcing this far enough in advance that fabric makers could plan production Wild, I did not know this. I wonder when beige will come back…
> I wonder when beige will come back.
Beige was last in back in October 2023.[1]
You can read the past Color Alerts month by month for free. If you pay money, you get advance notice. There's a whole planning process.
[1] https://www.colormarketing.org/blog/2023-october-color-alert