Y2K Aesthetic Institute 💽さんのイラストまとめ

Digital wallpaper & art selections scanned from the book, 'Digipop' by Karim Rashid (2005) (1/3)

Works by Graham Rounthwaite

This illustration style is mainly associated with the 'Gen-X Soft Club' aesthetic. His works were all over the place in the late 1990s, most notably in various Levi's ad campaigns.

Works by Furi Furi Company (Pt. 2)

The fourth image is neat, I didn't know they did some early 00s pixel art-type stuff as well. We haven't delved as much into that style yet.

Works by Astro Graphica, a firm formed by Koji Takeuchi & Teksuro San in 1997. Their website is still up, and has most of their older work! https://t.co/jdbVKrZ4Xo

One of the earliest and most prominent aesthetics to carry over from the very late 90s was the newfound appreciation for 70's glam & kitsch, part of an aesthetic we've termed 'Millennium Disco'.

@earational While it may be a bit different, we also study the spiritual/direct predecessor to Silicon Dreams, 'Airbrush Surrealism'

The vibrant scenes created for various Futurocity lines fit well into an aesthetic we've termed 'Silicon Dreams'. Popular from the late 80s-late 90s, it captures both the excitement of newly-available CGI technology, and the translation of surrealist art into the digital sphere.

Wild hair dyes, color-shifting 'virtual' makeup, spray-on techno glitter, shimmering 'hair crystals', and body frost

Please keep Terrell Davis @terrellllllll in your memory. He is the OG neo-Y2K artist and we wouldn’t be here without him. He was an admin of the Facebook groups, and an early CARI member. He was an incredibly humble person.

He will forever be a legend.

Rest in Power, 1998-2020

'Murinsel' (Mur Island), an artificial floating island in the city of Graz, Austria. (2002-3)

Designed by Vito Acconci as a futuristic interpretation of a seashell, it was built for the occasion of Graz becoming the 2003 European Capital of Culture. (1/X)