Occasionally, fragments of the cooler cyberpunk dystopia timeline slip into ours.
The PIPBoy of our timeline
“Re-imagining four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system. I then created a series of fictitious but stylistically accurate print ads to market them.”
From Alex Varanese.
I want to get to the point where we start getting retro-modern designs. I want a gaming PC that looks like a Commodore 64 damnit.
These are gorgeous
‘I am computer’ celebrates the visual character of desktop computing machines from a colourless period in industrial design.
From word processors and video terminals, to the very first desktop personal computers, these compact machines heralded a beige age, a period of microcomputing from the the 1970s and early 80s when design standards had conformed to realise a palette of neutral coloured machines throughout offices and later the home.
I don’t know which I find weirder.
Old home computers with integrated cassette players for data storage.
Or boomboxes with floppy disk drives for music play.
What do you think of the Sony Mavica? Camera that takes 3.5 inch floppies
Fuck, I forgot about that!
But let me counter with vinyl disks used for video playback!
Dieter Rams, Thermolüfter HL1 / Van, 1959. Braun, Germany. Photo R. Hoffmann. Via Braundesignsammlung.de
