/r/RetroFuturism
This subreddit focuses on the futurist visions of eras past. However posts may also contain contemporary art with a retrofuturist theme.
Futurism was born out of humanity's sudden thrust into technological revolution. To the many that witnessed the dramatic, rapid change, it seemed a technological utopia was fast approaching. This unbridled optimism caused the collective imagination to run wild.
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Dreams of the future reveal more about the mind of the dreamer than the future itself.
This subreddit focuses on the futurist visions of eras past. However posts may also contain contemporary art with a retrofuturist theme.
Futurism was born out of humanity's reaction to a sudden thrust into technological revolution. To the many that witnessed the rapid change, it seemed technological utopia was fast approaching. This unbridled optimism caused the collective imagination to run wild.
Although many of these visions seem almost comical now - the spirit in which they were created is part of the reason you are currently looking into a glowing rectangle with unlimited, instant access to the sum of all human knowledge.
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Vintage =/= Retrofuturism
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Please avoid posting vintage technology, unless it has a intentionally and obviously "futuristic" design.
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1. Futurist visions from eras past.
2. Contemporary art with a retrofuturist theme.
3. Discussion threads related to retrofuturism.
Related Subreddits:
r/ImaginaryTechnology - Sci-Fi and Fantasy art featuring robots, cyborgs, mechanisms and spaceships.
r/FuturePorn - A subreddit for futuristic concept designs.
r/WorldOfTomorrow - Present day predictions of what the future might hold.
r/ImaginaryHistory - If the infinite multi-verse theory turns out to be true, all of this actually exists.
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Moscow In The Third Millennium, 1972
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The 1955 Lincoln Futura Concept Car
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Renault Racoon
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Radon Therapy at the Sergei Kirov Sanatorium, (1975), Pyatigorsk, Russian SFSR. Photograph: V. Kuzmin
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H. Beam Piper Sci-Fi novel covers
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Dulles Airport Early 1960s
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Kitchen
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The Creators of the Kickstarter hit, "The Book", are back at it with a very retro-futuristic inspiried book called The Black Book - The ultimate guide to alternative inventions
First off, I'm not affiliated with the creators or the project. I backed the original Book kickstarter and really love the results. Was really excited to see this new project of theirs and some of the sneakpeeks at the artwork. I'm not one to typically share a product, but given that this kickstarter is already backed, I feel like it's less blatant promotion and more sharing something that others who are really into retro-futurism artwork would really be into.
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Space Ship from Buck Rogers, c.1930
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Experimental teleportation of a live guinea pig in Benjamin Witwer's 'Radio Mates' from Amazing Stories July 1927. Art by Frank R Paul.
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Sputnik Watch
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Gave me the same vibes I used to get from the covers of F&SF back in the 70s
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Assignment In Eternity by Robert A Heinlein; cover art by Ric Binkley
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“Space Conquest" (1976), Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR. Artist: Vladimir Gerasimovich Mishin. Photographer unknown
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Lecture: Retrofuturism: in search of lost illusions
Lecture within the framework of the seminar "Retrofuturism"
Each of the epochs assumed its own project of the future. This future was built from what surrounded people, pushing to the limit the trends that seemed most important to contemporaries. And what seemed like a real possibility some 50 or 100 years ago now looks either naive or creepy.
At the lecture, we will try to figure out what attracts us to the alternative future and how it happens.
Lecturer — Vladislav Degtyarev, PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, specialist in English art and architecture, author of the books "The Past as a field of creativity" (Moscow, 2018), "Baroque as connection and Rupture" (Moscow, 2021), "Madonna among the Ruins" (St. Petersburg, 2022) and "Memory and Oblivion of Ruins" (Moscow, 2023).
The lecture will be given today, October 24, 2024. At the Mayakovsky Library, St. Petersburg.
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promotional artwork by the Boeing Company
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[OC] Production boards for my retro-futuristic digital watch came in!
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Exploring Titan, Largest Moon of Saturn by Chesley Bonestell, 1950
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“Space Age - Astronomical Precision”, (1983 Soviet watch ad)
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Daliborka Stojšić, Miss Universe of Yugoslavia with MiG-21 Fishbed. 1968 [1080×1375] idk why but I feel like this belongs here
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April 1965 Space World cover art by Roy Kerswill
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"Drawing shows how moon plant could be used as a supplier of fuel" by John Gorsuch, 1964
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(US) National Commission on Space report published in spring 1986
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