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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.

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TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).

Bonus:

this is their whole relationship

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hrrrggghhhh......philosophy of art......praxis.........the idea that a certain level of complexity or a certain kind of technical skill is what qualifies something as art is bullshit.............so you have to think that way about your own art too you have to be consistent.........you have to choose how you refer to your art thoughtfully to reflect this or it will never sink into your brain..............save me jacob geller video essay "Who's Afraid of Modern Art" ............

Okay, I somehow accidentally imagine intoxicatingly angsty scenario of post Predacon Wars AU and it just tears my heart to shreds... So, please let me cry on your shoulder a little bit....

Imagine Starscream confronting Optimus after he sees devasted Bumble Prime, walking out of the quarters, after a heated argument about killing Black Arachnia. SS is just: "This rotten piece of work killed BB's son, her army killed his little sister (talking about Sari) and you STILL have the audacity to cover for her?! Mf, I'm gouging your optics and reaping your spark out rn, just like BB's spark was reaped out on the battlefield, while I craddled his broken shell, comforting him in his agony, while YOU, asshole, were nowhere to be found in his most desperate moments"

And Optimus is just hearing this mouth agape, because BP simply didn't have the heart to tell to his former best friend what kind of atrocities his former love committed...

Why?! Why did I imagined this?! Crying, wheezing, throwing up, rn...

Anyways, thank you for creating this astonishing AU — your artwork is amazing and I love it to bits!

C'mere c'mere *places you on my shoulder, and holding a bucket for that vomit of yours*

I fucking love the effort you put in this scenario right now, it's the right flavours for me

Well this "Blackarachnia killing Rubble" path is not the main one I want to focus on, I like your creative continuation of that route

Also ay thank you for loving my art! 😀