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Evan Collins /gd/456970#459755
2/23/2025, 7:48:58 PM
I did one as sort of an umbrella of futuristic and technophilic design trends from the 1980's which share a sort of cheesy '80s-ish' vibe and which have heavily influenced the revivalist genres, synthwave and vaporwave. The title '80s Corporate High-Tech' (or '80s Futurism') is tentative but basically this covers much of 'Cassette Futurism' (which dips into the 70s), the retrofuturist typography used in the 80s (and late 70s), the futurist/technophilic portion of 'Airbrush Surrealism', and includes the design trend referred to as 'Laser Grid'. So just as Y2K Futurism (or 'Cybercore') contains multiple design trends within it (such as Vectorheart and Metalheart) so does 80s Futurism. The aesthetic glorified high technology, and with a particular interest in the advancing age of personal computers (often due to tech companies commissioning ads for their products). It often depicted basic 3D geometric shapes, early computer displays and virtual worlds (i.e. the infamous laser grids), outer space as a backdrop for depicted objects, ostentatious displays of the color spectrum (to signify advanced tech capabilities), stylized parallel rows of lines or strips (but usually not as playful and exuberant as with 70s supergraphics), airbrush-style metallic surfaces and exaggerated sparkles, retrofuturist typography, 'boxy' angular imposing SciFi designs for vehicles, tech products, and interior design which were usually white, beige, or gray. The airbrush art tended to be visually darker, more surreal than the preceding variants of retrofuturism, and the tech product designs would have a noted 'boxiness' to it as opposed to the 'roundedness' of the preceding futurist product designs of the 60s & 70s. The common thread was that it all looked like it was from some 80s science fiction film. 1/2