Posts Tagged ‘future’
Fashion of 2000 From 1930’s Perspective
October 10th, 2009 • Fashion
Tags: commercial, consumerism, culture, Fashion, future, vintage
Interesting vision of fashion of the year 2000 from 1930s a perspective. At about 1:02, the narrators delivery of “ooh swish” sounds remarkably like the “oh snap” of nineties, which actually dates back to the early eighties. The men’s fashion of the future got it close with the phone, radio, coins, and candy for cuties. Flash forward 2007: Cell phone, iPod, credit card, and Viagra. Flash foward 2009: iPhone, coins, Viagra. I have to say that I do like the idea of the electric belt that adapts the body to climactic changes. Then, the choice to wear flip flops with a down jacket, that’s seen so often on the streets of San Francisco, will not seem so ridiculous and just be ridiculed as a really bad fashion choice.
Welcome to Your Future
June 9th, 2009 • Art & Design
Tags: contemporary art, cyborg, dystopia, future, scifi
These are digital illustrations, from Berlin-based artist/designer David Löhr, commissioned by the agency Generation Digitale. These images might seem like a new form of Futurism for their embrace of technological hybridism, but the minimal softness doesn’t suggest the fascist ideology, of the futurists, that war and industrialism will save the world. Rather they seem to convey a romantic notion of cybernetic organisms as a future utopia without the industrial straight lines of modernism. Read more »
