so I tried my hand at this stuff a while back, forgot this thread existed, so I decided to post it here. it's not great, since it's my first attempt, but I'm quite happy with it.
>>8095286 Yes, exactly. It's bright, vibrant, and forward-looking without feeling too abstract or out-of-touch. The green and blue and wide-open vistas make me think of a pleasant, breezy day in late spring or early summer. They're harmonious colors that pair well with the silvers and whites of the artificial elements. And the glassy textures make everything feel frictionless, a physical property which gets transposed onto existence itself: as though, in the Frutiger Aero world, life is easy, and will get even easier as we continue to progress into that promised future.
>>8095286 There’s a balance of environmental friendliness and technological progress. I don’t mean that in a tree hugger sort of way, but where humanity isn’t ruled by technology like we are today and the balance hasn’t been lost.
>>8095286 It's the polar opposite of 80s dystopic artificial excesses, dead flowers, scary virtual worlds The anti-synthwave An utopia of man and nature, of accessing bright and bucolic virtual spaces with your feet on the grass Has anyone else made that point? In the 80s it was obvious that computers would take over the world and people were afraid of machines that were being introduced into workplaces. In the late 90s and early 00s the new generation had a more favourable experience with friendlier computers that helped them send messages, meet friends, read information so there was hope that computers would keep improving and improving our lives. Now computers give us reasons to be afraid again with surveilance, AI, censorship, political activism, mass delusions etc. And that's why this sort of art can be so nostalgic.
I don't know how I went from watching LGR's video on an aquarium screensaver to rekindling a love for this aesthetic, but I'm glad I did. Grabbed this one from somewhere randomly a couple days ago since I Aero'd my Win10 up and needed a fitting wallpaper.
>>8096170 it sure is cool that the peak of human existence just so happened to be when I was a middle schooler in blissful ignorance of the world. Sure, Deepwater Horizon, endless attempts at destroying free expression, Citizens United, the Great Recession, the War on Terror, swine flu, and Billy Mays dying may have happened or were happening when this look was at its peak, but the important thing is that I was young back then.
>The anti-synthwave ironic, because judging from posts like this it's being co-opted by the same breed of retards that overran synthwave in the first place.
>>8096170 Synthwave is a music genre you moron, not an aesthetic. Jesus, how fucking moronic are you that you think that a cheap collage of animals grass and buildings is a utopia of man and nature? Have you actually ever seen the different aesthetics of the 80s? Not everything is "scary virtual worlds" or "dead flowers". A big part of Frutiger Aero is proto Corporate Memphis due to most of it being a collage of random nature related stuff that someone did with photoshop, cheap and deformed. The only salvage thing would be Frutiger Aurora or Dark Aero.
>>8099896 Again, not all Frutiger Aero is bad, early Frutiger Aero is very nice, but the whole Frutiger Eco aesthetic is bad for the most part for the previously stated reasons
>>8095286 bright, interesting colors and natural motif with familiar imagery and enough abstraction to be comforting. that was the point in 200X, and nothing changed. we got it right then. everything after that has just been acclimation so companies can spend less
>>8095286 It’s a manifestation of the astral worlds above us, the heavens, where you feel this God like/ love presence all around you. It’s just a small taste of that
Most stuff in the frutiger era wasn't eco-utopian, it was mostly either bland vectors or ugly dreadful cyberdelia. The eco-utopia-dream is just what resonates the most today. Just like Synthwave and the 80s. So, so much of the 80s pop culture was gray and dull and unimaginative with a tiny sprinkle of tropicalia, and almost no rad neon. I guess we need hope more than ever now and that's why only the hopeful aspects are celebrated and became the image of the decade. And why the 90s are mostly got right because it was the most optimistic decade.
>>8120241 terrible waste of water, this is shit and soulless. same as you for not bothering to learn to create something on your own and still attempting to contribute. pitiful, and kys 0/10
>>8120265 Look how hard this fag is raging. DeviantArds are getting BTFO'd by AI and its glorious. Your 'art' isn't better than AI slop, chudbud. Hard pill to swallow, I know.
>>8120313 No he's right. I think AI "art" is worthless because it was created by something that doesn't know what it's creating. Because of this, AI "art" is always full of flaws down to the pixel level.
In the long run, I think humans will forget how to draw because if you don't use some skill, you will lose it. Drawing isn't a big issue though, outsourcing your thinking process to a machine is a much bigger issue. We're already at a point where machines are more polite, more intelligent and more fun to talk to than actual humans. It's sort of pathetic.
Does it seriously matter dude? Even if it were that bad, you can't convince EVERYONE to stop using AI just because of some moral code bullshit, it just don't work like that
>>8121585 >AI "art" is always full of flaws down to the pixel level. It's (currently) full of minor insignificant technical flaws (which can often be edited) but on an artistic level the form is better than 90% of all the slop put out by humans on DeviantArt or elsewhere. I'm sorry you're a coping failed artist who requires weeks to create something that AI can do a better job of in less than 5 seconds.
>In the long run, I think humans will forget how to draw because if you don't use some skill, you will lose it. Drawing isn't a big issue though, outsourcing your thinking process to a machine is a much bigger issue. We're already at a point where machines are more polite, more intelligent and more fun to talk to than actual humans. Yeah, you're not needed anymore. Now you just need to accept your inferior rank.
>dad has been showing some interest in making shirts I mentioned frutiger aero and metro (metro caught his attention more) but he usually uses ai. I wanted to make this to show him that making it yourself looks better. He's definitely not going to try to sell any ai frutiger metro shirts. I just made this because it looks cool when you make the art.
>>8118950 I always see Frutiger Aero as symbolizing "the world is getting worse, but I will not let that crush my spirit. I will continue to keep moving forward and hoping for a bright future". That perfectly defined the 00s.
>>8125587 truth be told, i think it was really the future we wanted. Music videos and technology of that time really pointed to a bright, promising future. But what we got was dystopian insted. Nowadays, the love of frutiger aero symbolizes that. "i won't let go of the past because the present / future will crush my spirit."
>>8095395 Good way to put it. Its hard to explain, but this is how I felt like 2000-2010. I grew up in an area with lots of tech firms on large green campuses, separated by parkland and forests. Lots of young professionals came to the area for the dot-com bubble and later rise of the internet through like ~2015 or so. Very green and lush, hi-tech, and hopeful.
The internet at that time felt like a place to discover new stuff and find new stuff. It wasn't reduced to the clout-chasing, pessimistic, panic spreading, ad-delivery machine it has become.
A couple major firms in my area folded, and while the tech scene still exists, it seems much more dog-eat-dog than it once was. Lots of the young talent left the area, and much of the green space through the area has been sold off and become strip malls serving slop to the remaining overworked engineers.
>>8121629 Lol, at its base level literally the only point of art is tat creating it is cathartic for the human soul. If art doesn't serve that purpose, it isn't worth existing.
>>8125880 frutiger halo is so clearly a genre of this; the water/grass/blue sky, the glowing shiny translucent spaceships the aliens have, like space teletubbies
>>8102946 We never really had it to begin with, it was something to aspire to, but THEY ultimately decided people were easier to demoralize with making shit look bland and ugly. In a better world, Microsoft and others would have continued evolving Aero instead of moving onto gay ass metro shit for Windows 8 which evolved into the more bland ass "Okay, you either get black or white" Windows 10 and 11. You will own nothing, you will eat bugs, you will live in the pods, you won't even have an actual computer anymore, and everything you look at will look like shit, even art will be an unfunny joke at best and horrible on average, and you will be happy.
>>8098999 >>8099896 His point about the style as an expression of digital optimism at its peak remains salient, irrespective of how much other shit you dorks can bring up to sound smart.
People felt better about the future of Computing during that era than they did before it and do now after it. The style evokes that feeling. Simple as.
>>8095286 To me, it was the last remnant of the technological optimism of the late 90s, before 9/11 ruined everything. Aero is a depiction of how digital technology and the internet were essentially introducing mankind to a whole new world. A new place where anything could happen, and people envisioned it as utopic. Surely, things would get better in the future. This image encapsulates that very well: >>8091836
>>8095286 It's the last decent tech aesthetic before shifting to retarded minimalism. Just wished the people who were into it did more instead of circlejerk around images of the mid to late 2000s, thinking that people are really going to build that shit for free.
I grew up with this aesthetic and windows XP, skeuomorphism, etc. and have always really liked it.
So, what does it say about me that I now instinctively hate this aesthetic because of it being appropriated by the mainstream and idiots I see on social media? I think what annoys me the most is that it's been given the most retarded name ever. Am I a horrible person?
>>8132822 Idk I think that’s normal. Because the newfags using the aesthetic are using like shitty surface level aspects of it - see the 100 pics itt of poorly photoshopped cities with random tropical fish and bubbles splattered everywhere, rather than stuff like >8131628 >8131629 >8131630 which are just really sleek and aesthetic.
I'm kinda Aero'd out, wish other aesthetics like Deco luxe, Cassette futurism, Corporate Gen X cyber and Global Village Coffeehouse had better Pape representation, or any better representation besides heavily compressed photos.
>>8131741 I'd say 9/11 was the first hit, but then it was 2008 that ruined everything I mean, there was still a lot of optimism with technology even following the attacks and the war that followed