Tom Melly scripsit
> > > It generally means design based around 1950's US design.
> > > Powerpuff Girls springs to mind.
Geoff Wedig added
> > Or earlier. Retro as in "retroactive".
> > It's a look built out of old-fashioned elements.
J Charter wrote
> "retrograde" might be better
> And it is relative isn't it? It means looking "backward"
> in time from whatever vantage you assume to take. Mimicking
> sixties clothing styles today is "retro"
James Lileks, whose site (http://lileks.com/) is worth exploring,
commented somewhere that before 1970 or so there was no such thing as
`retro' as we know it. Thirties style doesn't turn up much in Fifties
designs.
Dunno whether I buy his claim, but it's thought-provoking anyway!
The first example that comes to mind of paleo-retro ;) is the use of
`wood' typefaces to suggest either the Wild West or the circus.
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