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Retro advertising art has experienced a resurgence in popularity since its style is distinctive from modern computer-generated styling. Contemporary artist Anne Taintor uses retro advertising art as the centerpiece for her ongoing commentary on the modern woman. Specific styling features include analog machine design and vintage television ...
Groovy (or, less commonly, groovie or groovey) is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "excellent ...
Back-to-school season evokes thoughts of new pencils, autumn leaves and the return of sweater weather.It’s also marks a new school year as kids return to classes after the long summer break.
"Outrun" is a synonym of synthwave that was later used to refer more generally to retro 1980s aesthetics such as VHS tracking artefacts, magenta neon, and gridlines. [15] The term comes from the 1986 arcade racing game Out Run , which is known for its soundtrack that could be selected in-game and its 1980s aesthetic.
GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black-and-white XBM. [5] In September 1995 Netscape Navigator 2.0 added the ability for animated GIFs to loop. While GIF was developed by CompuServe, it used the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression algorithm patented by Unisys in 1985.
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, [citation needed] a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, [30] [31] and became well-known in 2015. [32]
It starts with the retro appeal of old styles of art, clothing, mores, and then grafts modern or futuristic technologies onto it, creating a mélange of past, present, and future elements. Steampunk , a term applying both to the retrojection of futuristic technology into an alternative Victorian age, and the application of neo-Victorian styles ...