{"id":233,"date":"2024-11-13T00:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/?p=233"},"modified":"2024-11-13T00:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:19:11","slug":"retro-futurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ib8g23\/2024\/11\/13\/retro-futurism\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Futurism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Retro-Futurism is an aesthetic founded on what ideas felt futuristic to a past society, which can mean both people in the past looking forward, and also us looking back and incorporating a mix of that old-fashioned life with modern features and technology. The genre includes broadly popular aesthetics such as Steampunk and Space-Age Fantasy, with features like zeppelins, chrome colour schemes, and Marvel’s idea of Asgarde with Vikings heralding spaceships. It can also be applied to real life, such as with the Niter\u00f3i Contemporary Art Museum made to look like a flying saucer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Origins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Futurism began in early 1900’s Italy as industrialisation transformed the world, and glamorised new technology such as planes and cars as well as the values of speed and youth. As the twentieth century came crashing in, science evolved almost boundlessly, bringing to the public commercial airlines, highways, skyscrapers, particle colliders, as well as weapons of warfare and destruction. The extreme speed at which technology advanced influenced its society, and so its aesthetic reflects the cultural fears and ideas of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe age demanded an image of its accelerated grimace.\u201d – Pound, E. (1920) ODE POUR L\u2019\u00c9LECTION DE SON S\u00c9PULCHRE<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Smart, J. (2022). Back to the future: why retrofuturism is the look of our times<\/em>. [online] 99designs. Available at: https:\/\/99designs.com\/blog\/design-history-movements\/retrofuturism\/.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retro-Futurist Types:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n