MEANING
Combining an earlier era’s imagined future with the styles or sensibilities of that same past.
Use it for
Designs that make an imagined future feel rooted in the optimism or anxieties of an earlier era.Use for settings or objects that deliberately present yesterday’s vision of tomorrow.
On the page
The retrofuturist console gleamed with brass toggles beneath its curved glass.
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- retrofuturist
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