Peak design was late 90s and 2000s, where you got to see the new crazy designs of a new era while 80s design still existed all around you prevalently. That fusion is peak nostalgia for me.
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Not a fan of the early windows style, but otherwise "Memphis" looks coolest to me. Reminds me of early nickelodeon. The crowd in the background of What Would You Do was 100% this style.
Was the 3DS (main menu) really frutiger? Feels like a far cry compared to Win7 and the xbox 360
It doesn't have quite as much "gloss", but what puts it in that era for me is the beveled and 3d elements that disqualify it from being "flat". Some of its design elements were also semi-skeuomorphic.
Oh definitley frutiger aero.
memphis & flat
Then what's Win11, Arc, that style?
I love the excess of the Y2K Era. Everything was so much more beautiful, unique, and strange. Everything after seemed like an attempt to "dial it back."
Y2K. Let me just run this chromium look filter on my pillow embossing.
The music. The early 90s saw the rise of independent record labels which then gave rise to bands who wouldn't have stood a chance otherwise, aka Indie Music. After the 60s, the 90s is by far the best era for modern music ever.
Late 90s decided that everyone had to dress up in silver
I like flat hardware (the ps5 shouldnt be there tho). You can stack stuff over flat hardware, they're not akward to place, can be easily stored, easier to design, easier to machine, etc...
Now flat software is fucking mediocre and should be abolished,
Strange, just for the last few days, I've been thinking just what a big cultural turning point 2005 seemed to be. From then on, everything started to circle the drain, and I put the blame on globalization and the advent of large-scale social media. Which might have left an imprint on product design and fashion.
And, as I wrote earlier in a different thread, the shift from 1994 to 1995 was the biggest one I've witnessed, and it was very visible in public spaces. Audible as well: It went from Metallica and ZZ Top as supermarket background music (imagine this!) to "Easy Listening" or whatever.
Gaming hasn't really bloomed as much as it had in the 2000s