80s Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/80s/ Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:25:55 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 This is what the 80s were really like: a permanent Rickroll https://ounodesign.com/2015/11/07/the-80s-were-a-permanent-rickroll/ https://ounodesign.com/2015/11/07/the-80s-were-a-permanent-rickroll/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:25:55 +0000 https://ounodesign.com/?p=18757

I was there; I should know. As one caption to this video read, very accurately, “this is what it was like 24/7.”

I went looking for clothes the other day but everything was 80s, badly printed shirts and high waisted jeans the colour of skim milk. 

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I was there by accident. These people were not.

Apparently it’s “anything goes” in fashion right now, but that’s been true for a while. Anyway, it’s never really “anything goes” – there are always those weird, arbitrarily-imposed rules.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2011/09/12/new-york-fashion-week/feed/ 5 Design Traveller – the online game https://ounodesign.com/2010/07/28/design-traveller-the-online-game/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/07/28/design-traveller-the-online-game/#respond Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:44:41 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=9704

The Virtual Museum of Canada has released on online game called Design Traveller. It’s a little on the blocky side, perhaps, but Canadian design nerds might like it.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/07/28/design-traveller-the-online-game/feed/ 0 The 80s are a gigolo with a defiant aristocratic stare and samurai shoulders https://ounodesign.com/2009/10/09/the-80s-are-a-gigolo-with-a-defiant-aristocratic-stare-and-samurai-shoulders/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/10/09/the-80s-are-a-gigolo-with-a-defiant-aristocratic-stare-and-samurai-shoulders/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:05:52 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=6501

Thanks to kntgrl for this memory of the cold 80s: their cruel royalty, their icy diamonds.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/10/09/the-80s-are-a-gigolo-with-a-defiant-aristocratic-stare-and-samurai-shoulders/feed/ 2 More Paul Rudolph houses – exteriors and interiors https://ounodesign.com/2009/05/26/more-paul-rudolph-houses-exteriors-and-interiors/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/05/26/more-paul-rudolph-houses-exteriors-and-interiors/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 21:36:41 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4172

More houses by Paul Rudolph. I’m not sure why I like him so much; maybe it’s the feeling that every space is designed for a party, or the use of white, or that he went so glam/space age in the 60s and 70s.

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That’s according to the New York Times, and since nostalgia seems to work in 20-year cycles, I guess anyone could have seen it coming. If, as the article says, the 90s were the sci fi thing and the Breeders, then excellent, but … what is that orange outfit!

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