Sunday, December 05, 2004
New Futura
I got into the internet late compared to some folks, sometime around 95/96 in the computer labs at college. Back then, one of the websites that totally blew my mind was legendary graffiti writer/Mo Wax cover artist/all-around genius Futura 2000's futura2000.com. It's a seemingly endless maze of blind links, rapid-fire animations, and non-sequiter text, and it seemed at the time to be utterly next-level and, in its random paths leading who knows where, a sort of poetic snapshot of the whole internet experience. Never mind the frustration of not being able to find any pics of those legendary abstract end-to-end burners...
What's funny is how antiquated so much of it looks today. It's still an interesting place to get lost for a while, but design-wise much of it looks pretty amatuerish.
That's all background to explain how excited I was to stumble across (whilst checking out this beautifully rendered pro-marijuana children's book...
Just A Plant, to which Futura contributes) a new Futura site, futuralaboratories.com.
Upon initial inspection it's not quite as ambitious and sprawling as the original, but I'm digging the minimalist wargames aesthetic, and the disorienting randomness factor is still intact. Play around for a while, it's good blunted fun.
What's funny is how antiquated so much of it looks today. It's still an interesting place to get lost for a while, but design-wise much of it looks pretty amatuerish.
That's all background to explain how excited I was to stumble across (whilst checking out this beautifully rendered pro-marijuana children's book...
Just A Plant, to which Futura contributes) a new Futura site, futuralaboratories.com.
Upon initial inspection it's not quite as ambitious and sprawling as the original, but I'm digging the minimalist wargames aesthetic, and the disorienting randomness factor is still intact. Play around for a while, it's good blunted fun.
