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Nirvana Nevermind Photoshoot (1991) 💧
#Nirvana#nevermind#1991#90s#1990s#grunge#90s grunge#1990s grunge#grungy aesthetic#grunge music#90s aesthetic#90s music#1990s music#kurt cobain#krist novoselic#dave grohl#90s kid#1990s alternative#90s alternative#mtv 90s#1990s aesthetic#1990s nostalgia#1990s style#90s nostalgia#nirvana nevermind#swimming pool#pool#poolcore#90's#1990s photography
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Nirvana - You Know You’re Right (Recorded January 30, 1994)
#nirvana#Nirvana you know you’re right#Nirvana you know youre right#2002#1994#music#video#music videos#music video#tunes#90s#1990s#kurt cobain#dave grohl#krist novoselic#1990s grunge#grunge#90s grunge#1990s alternative#90s alternative#2000s nostalgia#00s#2000s#y2k#90s kid#90s aesthetic#90s music#1990s kid#1990s music#1990s nostalgia
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#1990s#coquette#vintage coquette#coquette aesthetic#prepcore#grunge#1990s grunge#2014 grunge#2014 nostalgia#2010s#2010s nostalgia#butterflycore#summercore#rainbowcore#audio#hole#malibu#celebrity skin#Spotify
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I hand painted these shoes I bought at Walmart for $5. Can see the process in lower photos and top photo is the finished project. I wanted to incorporate my favorite silverchair albums, the first 3 albums. I painted it with toothpicks so kinda came out rough, I didn’t have a small enough brush.
#silverchair#daniel johns#1990s grunge#90s grunge#ben gillies#chris joannou#frogstomp#1997#freak show#silverchair freak show
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☆°tell me im your national anthem°☆
#girlblogging#hyper feminine#it girl#coquette#lana del rey#this is what makes us girls#courtney love#1990s grunge#this is a girlblog#americana#american#lana del rey aesthetic#messy coquette
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Made in 2018
If you’ve seen this anywhere else, I posted it back on my deviantArt when it was made.
Mario girls wearing various costumes and clothes based on different time periods - requested by roseprincessmitia
1 - 4. 1980s Rocker
5 - 8. 1990s Grunge
#request art#princess peach#princess daisy#mayor pauline#rosalina#peach#daisy#pauline#1980s#1980s rock#1980s glam metal#glam metal#1990s#1990s grunge#90s grunge#grunge
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Circa 1900, Bat in Flight with the Man in the Moon brooch. Made by Unger Brothers, USA. ❤︎₊ ⊹
#grunge#goth#metallic#bats#pngs#transparent#editing#png#mine#transparent png#1990s#circa 1990#unger brothers#brooches#vintage#USA#brooch#for some reason. I lost the source for this one. the website I used and my history just *poofed* where I got this info and image from. hrm.#i'll just link the website i found it from. If anyone *does* re-find the brooch on there... lmk.#nightmareseditingpngs
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Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong and I hate it
Couple years ago I saw these two board games at the store back to back. Well, not saw them per se, but ya know. Spied them out of the corner of my eye. And for a moment without reading the text, I couldn’t tell you which was which decade at first. Funny. Either they were in a rush to get these out the door or they wanted their throwback trivia game boxes to look uniform. I didn’t think too much of it.
Only, from then on I started seeing it MORE. Every time someone markets a 90s or 80s throwback...
Goddammit they’re identical! What??! How did we let this happen? As a 90s survivor and a designer, this drives me up a wall.
Look, I know I’m late to the party to complain about “the 90s look” when we’re just starting to get sick of the Y2K nostalgia train. But c’mon, the 90s were not The 80s: Part Two™
Trust me when I say that we weren’t all wearing neon trapezoids up until the year 2000. The 90s look being peddled is so specific to the tail end of the 80s and an early early part of the 90s - a part of the 90s when it wouldn’t stop being the 80s. This is Memphis design being conflated with the wrong decade.
Keep reading for a long ass graphic design history lesson and pictures of old soda and fast food.
Specifically, the look is Memphis Milano, self-named by the Italian design house Memphis Group. Starting in the early to mid 80s, they made all sorts of furniture, fabrics and sculptures that were like a Piet Mondrian grid painting under heavy radiation. Their whole deal was defying the standards of existing industrial design up to that point on purpose. Chairs had weird arches, bookcases would be in strange alien colors, unusual materials like plastic or elastic were used in place of metal or wood, that sorta thing.
Memphis quickly became the signature look for the decade. You can tell something’s influenced by Memphis design from it’s telltale trademarks:
Clashing, neon colors.
Use of diametric shapes.
Contrasting patterns like zebra print stripes, confetti squiggles and checkerboards.
It wasn’t long before Memphis Milano-inspired design was everywhere in 80s pop culture:
It was a special time, yes.
I was a kindergartener at the tail end of the 80s, so I knew Memphis mostly through the lens of kids media. Toys, clothes, games, tv shows used it like candy colored catnip. Cable channel Nickelodeon more or less adopted the Memphis aesthetic as their signature in-house style and practically built a monument to it at a Florida theme park:
I think this is why folks mistake what decade Memphis is representative of - 90s staples like Nick, Saved By The Bell, Fresh Prince - they all stayed around much longer than the design trend’s expiration date.
Couple that notion with the fact that companies are slow followers to design trends. Something gets popular and they want to get on the bandwagon? Gotta wait for the ink to dry, gotta wait for the production molds to be made. It would take a few years for them to completely work Memphis outta their system.
Now, this is not to say Memphis is bad! Personally I’m a fan of the aesthetic, if my neon-drenched artwork wasn’t a tip-off already. But it is a trend, and trends never last forever.
So what took the Memphis Milano look down for good? This part’s up for debate, but I personally think it had something to do with this dude:
It’s that grunge music from Seattle that’s so popular with the kids these days dontchaknow.
Once Smells Like Teen Spirit hit in 1991, the Nirvana tone drove the rest of the decade. Clean geometry became weathered, grainy and organic. Bright neon pastels became more bold. Bubblegum pop music sounded fake and manufactured. Attitude and apathy was authentic. Whatever.
Things got grungy. Things got grimy. Olestra was invented.
I think the best way to visualize this transition is how Cherry Coke entered the decade and how it left it:
1992 Memphis on the left, 1998 grunge junkie on the right. Fitting that the 90s would end with a design that looked like Darth Maul’s lungs.
Okay, so what should 90s retro design look like?
Continue on to PART TWO! Spoilers: No VHS filters or vaporwave needed, but maybe bring an antacid.
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courtney love, the new interview 1995
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Hole - Live Through This (1994) 🎀
#hole#hole band#courtney love#hole Courtney love#heart#pink#1994#90s#1990s#compact disc#cd#cds#kinderwhore#90s aesthetic#1990s music#90s music#1990s nostalgia#1990s aesthetic#1990s style#90s kid#1990s alternative#90s alternative#90s girl#1990s girl#hole live through this#live through this#90s grunge#1990s grunge#90s nostalgia#miss world
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#hole#hole band#courtney love#90s#1990s#singles#violet#miss world#doll parts#kinderwhore#grunge#90s grunge#1990s grunge#90s alternative#1990s alternative#90s rock#90s style#1990s aesthetic#1990s music#90s music#90s aesthetic#1990s style#1990s fashion#grungy aesthetic#grungy girls#grungy style#girly#girly aesthetic#girly stuff#album cover
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Milla Jovovich, 1990s
#fashion#supermodel#1990s#1990s fashion#90s fashion#90s#vintage fashion#90s supermodel#1990s style#90s style#milla jovovich#fashion editorial#editorial#grunge style#grunge#grunge aesthetic
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Silverchair (1994)
#silverchair#1994#daniel johns#1990s grunge#90s grunge#frogstomp#the offspring#ben gillies#chris joannou#90s alternative#1990s alternative#90s#1990s
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he keeps you in a box by the bed
alive but just barely
#hole band#hole#pretty on the inside#live through this#celebrity skin#miss world#doll parts#violet#kinderwhore#female rage#riot grrl#courtney love#melissa auf der maur#eric erlandson#girlcore#girlhood#hell is a teenage girl#girlblogging#girl aesthetic#tumblr girls#girl blogger#coquette#hollywood#for the girls#grunge#lana del rey#lizzy grant#1990s#90s#coquette aesthetic
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#it girl#lana del rey#hyper feminine#girlblogging#coquette#hole#tumblr girls#courtney love#1990s grunge#aesthetic
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Twin Peaks pilot japanese VHS
#twin peaks#david lynch#david bowie#laura palmer#1990s#art#nineties#horror films#horror#survival horror#film#film stills#nostalgia#nostaligiacore#weirdcore#oddcore#movie stills#vhs tapes#vhs#vhs aesthetic#grunge#japan#weebcore
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