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Apr 26, 2021, 11 tweets

Thread: 'IDN Pro: Iconography' (2003) by Systems Design Ltd.

A showcase of various late 90s-early 2000s design firms. It also included a CD with extra fonts, graphics, screensavers, etc.; I'll post a download link to the ISO + zip file at the end!

Works by Astro Graphica, a firm formed by Koji Takeuchi & Teksuro San in 1997. Their website is still up, and has most of their older work! adesigner.jp/#

Works by 123Klan

"They are a 'graffiti crew' created in 1992 in the north of France by Scien & his wife Flor." Some of these works also exhibit the 'Vectorheart' style we study at CARI.

Works by Furi Furi Company (Pt. 1)

'Furi Furi was founded by Ryosuke Tei & Miho Sadogawa in 1998. Their mission is to "design the cool and the cute to their extremes, and bring a smile to everyone's face".'

Works by Furi Furi Company (Pt. 2)

The fourth image is neat, I didn't know they did some early 00s pixel art-type stuff as well. We haven't delved as much into that style yet.

Works by Graham Rounthwaite

This illustration style is mainly associated with the 'Gen-X Soft Club' aesthetic. His works were all over the place in the late 1990s, most notably in various Levi's ad campaigns.

Works by Faiyaz Jafri

1. DaB (unknown what that is)
2. Bambi illustration for Numero Magazine
3. Liberty proposal for OP Vodka
4. 'Leila'

A little blast of odd 2000s nostalgia I didn't expect to see, Hotelli Kulta Kala (launched Summer 2000)(eng. Habbo Hotel). Part of that same 'pixelscape' aesthetic popular at the time (eg. eBoy).

Works by Lucas Ionescu

Love this collection of logo design; I scanned it at the highest quality I could. Right-click and open in a new tab for the best view.

Works by Designershock

These designs span several aesthetics, including Y2K, @vectorheart , and @genxsoftclub -- check out these accounts connected to our CARI project for more information & examples!

Here is a link to the ISO file, and a regular zip file. Let me know if you're able to get the screensavers & icons working; w/ this stuff being ~20 yrs old some of it seems incompatible/unreadable or in archaic formats.

mega.nz/file/nsg0DLjS#…

mega.nz/file/Hl4QhLiJ#…

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