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Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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Architectural designer, Co-founder of CARI; Y2K, Frutiger Aero, McBling, GVC, Whimsigothic, Factory Pomo, Frasurbane, CGXC, Gen-X SC, etc. Patreon in link
Los Angeles, CA
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Jul 2, 2021
    Phew! After some late nights our CARI site is finally up! While it's still a work-in-progress, we've compiled quite a bit of our research over the past few years in here! I've got some fun ideas for the future, eg. each aesthetic page themed in its respective style
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    Y2K Aesthetic Institute 💽
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    Jul 2, 2021
    It's official! Our CARI website is finally up & open to explore! After years of hard work by our dedicated team, we've created this platform to share our research into the ever-expanding landscape of 1970s-present consumer design. cari.institute
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    Jan 25, 2023
    I've gone down a bizarre rabbit hole of searching for late 2000s frozen yogurt shop chairs - they're all part of that weird Frutiger Aero eco-parametric style
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Oct 30, 2024
    been thinking about this court jester-clown-circus vibe going on in 90s design
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    Sep 9, 2021
    This theatre reminded me again that the 90s were lawless chaos when it came to commercial design Famous Players SilverCity - Mississauga, ON (1997)
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    Apr 27, 2021
    Odd find in Domus Magazine: McDonald’s HQ in Chicago used to have a ‘meditation chamber’ in 1970. It had vinyl-suede paneled walls, ‘petal’ doors, mood music, a heated, 700-gallon waterbed, atmospheric lighting, and an ‘alpha-pacer(??)’ to stimulate creative brainwaves
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Oct 20, 2019
    The Hanna-Barbera store in Los Angeles (1991), a great example of what we've termed 'Wonka Pomo', that wacky 90s kids aesthetic merging 50s googie kitsch, comic tropes & exaggeration, bright colors, and a touch of Memphis playfulness.
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Jan 17, 2021
    Thread: Wonderful, wild, and (mostly defunct) food-centric retail designs from 'Food Presentation & Display' by the legendary Martin Pegler (1992)
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Jan 10, 2021
    In 1994, inspired by the theme restaurant boom, Steven Spielberg & Jeffrey Katzenberg founded 'Dive!', an undersea-submarine themed restaurant. (3) locations were opened in LA (Century City), Las Vegas, and Barcelona, with all closing by 1999. (1/X)
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Jan 13, 2020
    Doing research on what I've been calling the 'contempo-eclectic' style, popular in the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, especially in mid-to-upper tier home design. Interiors with a random assortment of 1980s trends like abstract art, Memphis, proto-GVC, and Deco revival.
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Jun 19, 2023
    Peak 90s ‘sophisticated warm-tone beige’ interiors of the Nordstrom cafe prototype in the Perimeter Mall - Atlanta GA (1998)
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Jun 19, 2020
    Microsoft/Windows ‘95 promo exhibition, London (1995) - Great example of the mid 90s ‘Cyber/Gen-X Corporate’ style. Designed by Innervisions Interiors and Exhibitions Ltd.
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Dec 31, 2019
    Blockbuster prototype media store - Fitch Inc. (1995) With the neon-edged plastics, video screens, and exaggerated colorful forms, we've placed this between the contemporaneous Cyber-Corporate and Wonka Pomo aesthetics.
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Jul 20, 2020
    I never get tired of watching this surreal Claritin commercial from 1996, one that skirted the existing FDA rules for drug advertising by never specifically to what it was for. Some combo of David Lynch fever dream + mid 90s CGI surreality + Windows XP background utopia
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    Evan Collins | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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    Aug 9, 2020
    The very surreal apartment of Austrian/Brazilian designer Hans Donner (year unknown). Found in a 1996 monograph book; I'm surprised there is little record online. I believe he's mainly known for his work with the Rede Globo television network.