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The Rise of Retro-Futurism: How Past Visions of the Future Shape Today's Design Trends
Retro-futurism is more than nostalgia dressed in chrome. From Googie coffee shops and Capsule towers to Courrèges miniskirts and vaporwave graphics, the past’s visions of tomorrow are shaping contemporary architecture, fashion and digital art-sometimes in ironic riffs, sometimes as serious design language.