The Frutiger Aero aesthetic was a colourful blip in a sea of beige, and was a brief signifier of wealth and status - a watery and glassy spin-off of 80s Memphis.
Aside from that, the trend in tech always been functional geometric modernism - predominantly black, white, grey, and beige, with occasional very controlled splash colours, predominantly straight lines, rectangles, circles, and simple curves, predominantly an implied or explicit grid.
It doesn't matter if you're looking at cars, synths, computers, offices, or cafes - it's all the same design language. Organic elements in spaces are limited to wood panelling (for status, as always) and verrrry occasionally some tame plants or trees.
There are no organic or chaotic elements in mainstream industrial design. Everything is very carefully controlled, sometimes literally down to the last micron.
The Frutiger Aero aesthetic was a colourful blip in a sea of beige, and was a brief signifier of wealth and status - a watery and glassy spin-off of 80s Memphis.
Aside from that, the trend in tech always been functional geometric modernism - predominantly black, white, grey, and beige, with occasional very controlled splash colours, predominantly straight lines, rectangles, circles, and simple curves, predominantly an implied or explicit grid.
It doesn't matter if you're looking at cars, synths, computers, offices, or cafes - it's all the same design language. Organic elements in spaces are limited to wood panelling (for status, as always) and verrrry occasionally some tame plants or trees.
There are no organic or chaotic elements in mainstream industrial design. Everything is very carefully controlled, sometimes literally down to the last micron.
Half of those are the same outlier iMac (note, from the 90s) as in the original article, and the rest are indeed grey boxes?