#y2kaestheticinstitute

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Evan Collins on Are.na doing the lord’s work categorizing pomo corporate & aesthetic design trends (primarily 80s/90s/00s atm) for their project CARI.

Org Nouveau, miss you love you

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From @y2kaestheticinstitute

[2001hz]

the preservation of history and the acts of archiving on the internet;

anybody can scan books and magazines sure but what are your intentions? do u want to preserve art/history? are u passionate about it? or it’s easy for you to gain an internet persona w a large following?

it seems people don’t like giving me credit but tend to give others credit for their scans? lol it’s confusing and lame but do I care? no, to a certain extent, this isn’t any of my work I don’t label my blog as content that’s like saying music is content, what I do is an act of preserving history and therapy just have many reasons for having an archive blog, and fortunately I love doing what I do.

it also makes me wonder the perseveration of other’s works isn’t really that important to those blogs, it’s just eye candy for consumers nothing more to it (my blog is somewhat that but i’ve stated numerous times on my intentions and genuine passions for scanning and having an archive blog) I get more into depth on the things I scan on my instagram so my tumblr is curated differently.

me, all the curators and archivists at archivepdf, milksockets, y2kaestheticinstitute, the retro art blogs like jca-archive & vhs-80 have post and scans things that’s not yet digitalized or things that’s rare or never really talked about so giving credit goes a long way it’s just good practice of consumerism.

during the 90s and 2000s blogspots and bloggers were heavily active and involved in collecting magazines and books and scanning things from their personal collection. the vibe, source, jet magazines, dreamcast and really any publication of gaming and “y2k” magazines were so vital for my childhood the advertisements were insanely good.

to say all this it’s more to it than giving credit. archiving on the internet has always been a cultural phenomenon.

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[cyberia2001]

“'e-loot' feature on colorful translucent tech in Teen Magazine (October 2000)”

source @y2kaestheticinstitute @y2kmagazines

[posthumanwanderings]

yo just wanted to say thanks @deatherit for this! I literally never check my e-mail and happened to see this surprise. as far as best Y2K blog goes (which I'm honored for you to say) I'm little more all over the place aesthetic-wise albeit still 90's / 2000's focused, so the real credit should go to @y2klostandfound @y2kaestheticinstitute @thisisrealy2kok @millenni-uhm @jaeducs and few others I'm always reblogging from :) but thanks again for this and anyone else who might've tipped me before 🙌

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[bulgariansumo]

Here's the cover for Adventures in Spacepunk! Pretty fitting for a season finale, if I do say so myself.

Special thanks to @/y2kaestheticinstitute, because I would not have been able to do the background design if not for that blog!

Normally, I save a version of the covers with the title and without, but that's mostly because up until the previous episode, I didn't bother putting titles on the covers and had to do that retroactively. 😂

Since I drew this picture with a title in mind, it looks kinda empty without it.

[postvespertine]

I was so too excited to read that you run y2kaestheticinstitute. All your work is rad.

thank you! the tumblr is also created and run by evan collins.

[solar7official]

Solar 7 aesthetics

So I just wanted to ramble a bit on how I plan to present the style of Solar 7's world. Just basic things like architecture, how spaceships look, and the overall sci-fi tone I want it to take.

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One thing everyone should know about me is that I have a strong love for the y2k aesthetic. No no, not the bug that was "supposedly" the end of the world at the turn of the century, but the styles and trends that came with it:

(I'd like to preface that these images are referenced from the y2kaestheticinstitute tumblr, please check their page out for more cool stuff and archived images!)

Anyways, moving along... (You don't have to read this all, but at least look at the pretty pictures and old art below 😊)

This sort of organic technology, new take on the retro 60's futuristic look is something I want to emulate in this webcomic. Something along the lines of bio-tech. While this sort of hints that space is industrialized, it never lost that sense of having an organic history - if that makes sense 🤔

I don't want to reuse the "cyberpunk" look as much as I can. This isn't a story about human a human introducing aliens to human society, it is a story about aliens introducing a human to their society. Heck, the human in this story doesn't have any "special" powers or "chosen one" story behind him, he's just a normal kid with the responsibility of the first Earthling to be integrated back into Interstellar society.

Either way, I want the Alliance (GAPU) to be as friendly looking as possible when it comes to their technology. Cause hey, they're an organization that's supposed to make peace with the universe. So I've been looking to Lilo & Stitch as inspiration.

While yes, technically these aliens will still be weaponized, it's mostly for the safety of others in Interstellara. Still, I want spaceships to have this look.

I think for the most part I'll try to avoid square buttons and make interaction with the ship more organic, they will still have a more streamlined and circular look to their shape.

Sorry I just wanna share how much I love Jumba's ship, it has such a cool design 😭 I'm going to have a difficult time not trying to make the Halley (Solar 7's ship) look like this.

But either way, if I am going to make a city in Solar 7, the cyberpunk aspect will probably more something akin to cities in Star Wars.

The more circular and round nature of the cities gives off that otherworldly feel to it that I absolutely adore. But not to say that every planet will be industrialized like this. The GAPU also visits worlds that are even more primitive than the planet Earth sometimes. It's just that because of the GAPU's influence on Interstellara that most of alien society has progressed beyond the technology of Earthlings.

All this, I want to try and put into Solar 7 in a more simplified style. I'm going to attempt to get better at technical design, my strong suit has always been characters, but I also love this type of architecture and aesthetic that I want to be able to draw stuff like this. Slowly but surely I am learning a few techniques too.

--- I'll end the ramble here for now, but before I go I'll share some old and new drawings I've made for Solar 7 thus far.

Thanks for reading :)

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Continuing my tour through Evan Collins amazing Are.na CARI archive of corporate & design trends of the 80s/90s/00s- some favorites from whimsigothic...

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From @evan-collins90

Check out his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/y2kaestheticinstitute.

[2001hz]

hi ,sorry if you answered this already but what are some archive blogs that you recommend? i havent been on this space for long but i love what you and others do :) it has given me a newfound appreciation for art and curation

@6qth @milksockets @/yourfashionarchive @g-a-r-l-a-n-d-s @jca-archive @yoyoyopt @yodaprod @jinxproof @y2kaestheticinstitute @oldtypenewtype @caterpie @vhs-80 @unit-02 @manga-and-stuff @y2klostandfound @mahoganymamii @futur3juli3 @/japaneseavantgardebooks

all these blogs touch on fashion and art and gave me some inspiration to pick up some books and magazines to scan in the future.

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[uncertain-noob]

Exactly what I thought they were

literally obsessed with the design of blobjects

[tjeneration]

💠 I'm gonna start to distribute some of my own findings where these appreciations are concerned.

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