retrofuturism
Vintage visions ahead
Retrofuturism is a style in art, design, and fiction that imagines the future as people from an earlier era envisioned it—ray guns, chrome rockets, flying cars, robot servants.
The aesthetic blends nostalgia with speculation, often drawing on mid-20th-century visions of tomorrow: The film's retrofuturism gave everything a sleek 1950s space-age look.
Steampunk and dieselpunk are related genres.
After hostilities end
- midcenturyAround the 1950s
- VictorianOf a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- steampunkRetrofuturistic Victorian science fiction
Movement toward improvement
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- optimismTendency to expect good
- automationSelf-operating system design
- leisureFree time for relaxation
prosperity · consumerism · abundance · convenience · modernity · tomorrow · utopianism
Time not long past
- bygoneOf earlier times
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
anachronism · timelessness · unrealized · parallel · sepia · patina · bittersweet
Remove unnecessary elements
- chromeReflective metal coating
- neonInert illuminating element
- finnedHaving swimming appendages
- bulbousSwollen and round
pastel · metallic · curves · rivets · dials · gauges · tailfin · antenna
Back-mounted flying apparatus
- hovercarLevitating vehicle concept
- monorailSingle-beam transit vehicle
- rocketshipPropelled craft for space
- videophonePhone showing caller's face
- MetropolisHero's fictional American city
- TomorrowlandFuturistic theme park area
- 2001Twenty-first century's opening year
- SputnikFirst orbital spacecraft
postwar
After hostilities end
- midcenturyAround the 1950s
- VictorianOf a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
progress
Movement toward improvement
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- optimismTendency to expect good
- automationSelf-operating system design
leisure · prosperity · consumerism · abundance · convenience · modernity · tomorrow · utopianism
yesteryear
Time not long past
- bygoneOf earlier times
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
reminiscence · anachronism · timelessness · unrealized · parallel · sepia · patina · bittersweet
streamline
Remove unnecessary elements
bulbous · pastel · metallic · curves · rivets · dials · gauges · tailfin · antenna · bakelite
jetpack
Back-mounted flying apparatus
- hovercarLevitating vehicle concept
- monorailSingle-beam transit vehicle
- rocketshipPropelled craft for space
Jetsons
- MetropolisHero's fictional American city
- TomorrowlandFuturistic theme park area
- 2001Twenty-first century's opening year
- Sci-Fi Artconcept art, alien landscapes, cyberpunk, space opera, starships
- AfrofuturismAfrofuturism, Octavia Butler, Parliament-Funkadelic, George Clinton, Janelle Monae
- Synthwavesynth, synthesizer, synthesizers, arpeggio, arpeggios
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
- cyberpunkcyberspace, chrome, cyberware, implant, augmentation
- future worldsdystopia, utopia, megacity, Mars colony, cyberpunk
retrofuturismfuturism
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
presentism · primitivism · futurology · antiquarianism · medievalism
retrofuturismfuturology
Study of coming times
trend analysis · forecasting · foresight · hard science fiction · speculative fiction
retrofuturismtechnophobia
Dread of modern devices
primitivism · anti-modernism · brutalism · solarpunk · cyberpunk
future, retro, futuristic, futures, retrograde, futurism, retroactive, futurity, futureless