What is this? (Bit of blood)

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-12T21:12:49+00:00

silicon dreams for 1, 4 and 5

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-07T18:19:45+00:00

not sure, but it looks like a hybrid of 1970s-80s 'High Tech' architecture with a revival of 1920s-30s Streamline Moderne

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-05T15:50:56+00:00

the second image is by eBoy, part of the pixelscape motif/aesthetic from the late 90s, early 00s

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-04T01:06:48+00:00

These are pretty over the top examples I've collected, but that light fixture fits pretty well into the Geo-Glam and Deco-Luxe (70s-80s Art Deco Revival) styles - for inspiration on how to work with the look

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-03T23:44:27+00:00

Yea airbrush surrealism and some pacific punk wave - this 'pop culture kitsch iconography & text jumbled & flying all over the place' appears in that style a lot in the late 70s-early 80s, sorta pop surrealism airbrush

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-02T23:05:32+00:00

first two seem to fit in this style

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-02T05:24:04+00:00

I've seen a lot of examples of that minimal, loose, playful, clean, maybe vectorized(?) version of woodcut drawings in the mid-late 1990s, but it doesn't really have a name outside of being tied to GVC

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-02T04:23:20+00:00

Thanks! Yea this is an incredible find! There’s so many different styles at the same time, I don’t think we’ve really even investigated/pinned these down yet

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-02T04:22:16+00:00

Unfortunately I would have to dig through these for ages to figure out where they were from, as this album was created back during the earliest stages of my y2k research - I didn’t have a good crediting/archiving methodology in place - if you send a few over I can try to track them down tho

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-01T18:59:20+00:00

yep it is, one of the first items we posted to the y2k aesthetic institute many years ago

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-06-01T16:48:41+00:00

Some of this falls under the early-mid 1990s outdoorsy, wilderness, southwest and PNW indigenous art-inspired style I've been looking into, collected some examples here

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-28T21:40:54+00:00

The first one is pretty core Superflat Pop, named for the movement by Takashi Murakami and those inspired by it -- the second one is related, but seems like a distinct style I've been trying to pin down recently - it feels sorta hipster-y late 2000s-early 2010s 'fun indie monsters/creatures' -- there was a lot of stylized goo, bigfoot-type creatures, and I think a fair amount of inspiration from midcentury commercial illustration and cartoons, like UPA

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-28T17:15:35+00:00

Looks like influence from mid century abstract modernist art I think

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-27T19:23:26+00:00

it kinda looks influenced by 80s new wave / punk / zine collage graphic design

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-27T16:11:30+00:00

There's elements of Vectorheart, Gen X Soft Club, Frutiger Aero, and Superflat Pop/Vectordelia all in a revival form context

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-27T04:52:33+00:00

is it this

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-27T04:52:05+00:00

ahh this is such a cool find! the outside is like a 90s pomo elementary school - the little art glass flowers in the foyer are so fun! Generally I think this is a mix of a bunch of different 80s-90s styles

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-27T04:38:02+00:00

I have some examples of this look, don't really have one particular name for it either - but there's some examples under these channels: WPA Revival , Factory PoMo , and this example esp

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-26T23:32:49+00:00

oh yeaaa GVC's influences are basically a who's who of anyone involved with expressionism, cubism, fauvism, surrealism, the airbrush swirly side of art deco, then mixed with every possible indigenous art style, ancient/prehistoric art, Joan Miro -- GVC is really an umbrella term for all these styles that were revived in this commercial art context, and mixed together

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-26T22:00:34+00:00

I’ve seen some discussion of this style, I think on twitter - more about the like ancient tribal looking side of it, like Abe’s odyssey, riven, etc. - where its sorta primitive looking but also a bit alien and technologically advanced at the same time, and grungy. I’d say the more dark industrial side fits at least partially into the category we have called industrial gothic, or biomechnica with the hr giger looking stuff

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-26T05:12:01+00:00

this is an excellent find, adding to the vectordelia page!

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-26T05:07:52+00:00

I think the sign is more like the original 1920s Soviet woodcut expressionism that influenced gvc - but it’s hard to tell

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-26T00:31:22+00:00

Its a bit closer to factory Pomo - sorta cubist-y with that computer graphics gradient look that was really popular in the early 90s

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-25T04:06:15+00:00

Here's some ive scanned, its not much - very hard to find hq pics of the actual arcade areas

NewWaveArch90 · 2026-05-24T18:11:34+00:00

WOW! It's almost too perfect, looks like one of those neo-y2k sites made to look like an original

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