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Design Inspiration Everywhere
There are thousands of inspiration sources for an artist, may he/she be a musician, an actor/actress, a painter, or even a designer. Inspiration even surpasses the profession barriers and a painting may inspire a movie director, a picture may inspire a musician, and my favorite, a movie or a music may inspire a designer.
It's everything out there to inspire us. Decades and decades of movies and music, each one in its own style, bringing cultural baggage to fulfill and influence us. It's no mistery that if you are really connected to movies, music, painting, or whatever it may be, it will at some point give you ideas... inspire you. Someone who really likes the 70's will turn to psicodellic art, use those chubby, groovy types, maybe use some disco as reference. In Brazil we call also add the Tropicália.
A person really fond of the 80's (like the Abduzeedo Team), will use lots... and I mean LOTS of neon colors, like shock Pink, make me blind lime green or the panties blue (that's right... panties blue. That's how we call it in Brazil). The 80's games are also a good source of inspiration... Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda and all that. Of course, there are Van Halen, Scissor Sisters, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Goonies. God, I Love it. :)
Retro design will always be out there. Always. And for me the only two things that I can say for sure that are 2000's style, are movies and music. Otherwise, all I can see is retro... in fashion, design, etc. It worries me the possibility that in the future we might be remembered as the decade that didn't have its own, pure culture, something we could place along with the 80's and 90's. Of course, there are a few designers we could say that produce genuine 2000's works, but they are only a few.
And I really want to be wrong about it, and I would like you guys to tell me a few things:
Who do you think makes original 2000's art?
What inspires you? A movie, a song an artist? Maybe the Beatles? The Godfather? Van Gough? I don't know, you tell me!!
What is your favorite decade? The shaggadellic 70's? The neon thights big wigs 80's? Or the grunge new kids on the block 90's? We'd love to hear from you!! Cheers!
Some Retro Inspiration
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Amen to that. Also look at the music video for DVNO by Justice
Nice post, Paulo.
The 2000's art is a very ample theme, because it includes all kinds of art and inside it there's the conception of each one of what's art.
Focusing more on the digital arts: in my opinion, there's never been so "easy" to get inside it. With a little help from web 2.0, the sharing of knowledge has expanded in a insanely large amount.
Without having to look so far: here in Abduzeedo we have a tutorial that explains how to create an amazing space scene, featured on the cover of a very famous magazine here in Brazil.
Not so long ago you would never thought about it and would die trying to discover how the author did it.
Of course that reproducing a tutorial doesn't make you an great designer/artist, but is the first step to larger achievements and studys.
Speaking of which, the artists mentality has been through a lot of changes. Little by little, everyone is discovering that sharing what you know is the key. Nobody can be an isle.
So, to resume, the 2000's arts expanded the oportunities and encourages everyone to create original work. The results will come a bit later...
Sorry for the english mistakes, I'm a little rusty!
Great post Paulo!
I am starting to feel old that these games and designs are being called retro! But I suppose Pacman is 28 years old!
But for me I like mid century retro. Best exemplified by the low brow artist SHAG (www.shag.com), Googie architecture and the Polynesian Pop - Tiki moments.
Thanks!
What about web 2.0 and apple? These designs are our generations style.
It is always only the few that influence the many. Take a look through art history -- we generally only study about a dozen people for each movement (which often last for decades).
Even now, we are distilling our designers of the past down to just a few: Paul Rand, Milton Glaser, etc.
I don't think you need to worry about authentic 2000s design. The 60s drew heavily from inspirations such as Art Nouveau, but the collective result was a distinctive style.
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