Y2K Aesthetic Institute 💽さんのイラストまとめ

Super Seed store - Shanghai, China designed by Leaping Creative (2022) (1/X)

Very playful example of Neo-Y2K x Superflat Pop influences. Created for Super Seed, a beauty & skincare company.

Last note for tonight: this image from a different Snog location reminded me of a motif we've been calling 'vectorbloom'; after noticing how prominent 'nature-inspired vector graphics' were in the 2000s. Usually maximalist, in keeping with the general atmosphere of the era.

Interestingly, it also has a few elements of the 'Superflat Pop' aesthetic (wall mural in img #2, statue in img #3), which was also very popular at the time.

https://t.co/aTfzxxgspg

UNDA series font (img 1), another example of the popular pixelated billboard look I remember seeing on quite a few websites back then.

Img #3 has that classic Vectorheart/GXSC arrow, along with an ad for the amazing Bionic Systems website (search them on the Web Design Museum)

Love the B.Positive font, with a Vectorheart-style 'digital billboard' effect & the 'Techno-Set' flyer with 'Dr-No' font.

Image #4 showcases the very popular-at-the-time barcode motif

Thread: T-Shirt selections from the book, 'T-Shirt Print Designs and Logos' by PIE Books (1994)

1. Graphic Manipulator - Japan (1991)
2. Anarchic Adjustment - USA (1993)
3. Pop Will Eat Itself by The Designers Republic - UK (1993)
4. Nike - USA (1993)

These are from a book on cultural/subcultural style a friend & I stumbled upon in a Seattle thrift store -- "Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters - Subcultural Style" (1994).

These are from JPG's "Cybernetic Collection", noted as a fusion of the human body, tech, and media.

1-2. Promo for 'Sweet Robots Against the Machine' by Towa Tei & then used in BIG Magazine (4/1997)
3. Illust. for Dept. Store Advertising (1999)
4. Illust. for Vogue Nippon (12/1999)

And here's the IG link!
https://t.co/7iGMwC5llZ

1-3. Advertising illustrations for the Laforet Department Store (Spring 1996)
4. Illustration for BIG Magazine (2002)