"Global Village Coffeehouse" aesthetics: C/D?

sorry if large, this one is a local example for me:

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10169444_10152316743742520_88410142_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=4a13c5d3166b95bf7f345bf0ba29a2d3&oe=5D0D7D0E

Small World Coffee in Princeton NJ is my go-to for this aesthetic

http://www.smallworldcoffee.com/_assets/img/common/printHeader.png

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, March 11, 2019 10:46 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dude are you from the princeton area? That is my spot

Or *was*

I like this aesthetic. I think it will become my new aesthetic. The Brooklyn country gentleman thing has gotten tired.

I used to go to small world coffee a lot -- Princeton trips were a regular thing from Rutgers. The PREX-Hoagie Haven-small world trifecta. Maybe also throw in a bookstore or two.

Can trade in my red wings for tevas

There is only one bookstore left there. It’s this aesthetic too somewhat. I used to work there.

definitely associate this aesthetic with coffee shops that existed in the 90s

some plants around, a counter where you order or someone might take your order if they're out dropping drinks off at tables. big chalkboards listing fresh beans

The green new deal needs a look imo. This might be it

Excited to see ezra’s outfits on the new tour

I was searching "earth day shirt" to try and find the urtext for this.

Excited to see ezra’s outfits on the new tour

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/uploads/article_images/vampire-weekend-harmony-hall-video-pancakes-ezra.jpg

i mean

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/040/MI0000040206.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

different but there's something there

There's the whole line of Putumaya comps that were always displayed at bookstores, global-village type stores, and so on.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5XYiqHni398/S72054Z5MOI/AAAAAAAADGg/v23yWYDi87c/s1600/41EXKD6MBKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

https://www.oneofthethree.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1993-09-19-San-Francisco-WOMAD-flyer.jpg

Future Zone: A Virtual Village

http://www.sandygarnettstudio.com/files/4514/2232/7992/1992HordePosterw8.jpg

don't know why my image is broken; here's the link: http://www.sandygarnettstudio.com/files/4514/2232/7992/1992HordePosterw8.jpg

did u all see this exchange, amazing:

We're just waiting for the Global Hypercolour tee shirt

— Jesus Jones (@jesusjonesband) March 7, 2019

I'd forgotten Big Head Todd. They were kinda big, weren't they, though they closed out the era.

Bittersweet you could say

i feel like keith haring was a big influence on this aesthetic.

this is bringing back lots of "going to the houses of friends with aging hippie parents in the early 90s" memories...

also my uncle's recycling/green office supply company totally rode this wave:

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1014234044777676800/ryWkJk0z_400x400.jpg

The globe art of this era wreaks havoc on the Canadian arctic.

would not be totally shocked if big head todd could still draw comparable live numbers to vampire weekend

"jam band adjascent" + "a couple huge 90s alt rock hits" is a powerful combo in the U.S.

http://i66.tinypic.com/2z54nlw.jpg

Chagall seems like an influence here too, in addition to haring

Also idk if this was linked yet. Good analysis of why these looks might be coming back

this shit is what gives me righteous fury

I typed a thread a while ago on how the obsession w/ graphic design aesthetics of the 80's and 90's among young designers today is a cry of rebellion against... THIS https://t.co/JBZSvz3z7g

— 〽️ax krieger's big mood (@MaxKriegerVG) February 14, 2018

Wait, so Jesus Jones and I BOTH think the Vampire Weekend cover is reminiscent of Jesus Jones aesthetic but there's no actual Jesus Jones album cover that looks anything like it? Weird.

Sorry here is the for real og thread

I theorize that the rise in popularity of all sorts of pre-2008 visual designs, from "vaporwave" to synthwave to anime futurefunk to memphis milano to "global village coffeehouse" to y2k to "mcbling", is a cry of rebellion against the modern state of consumer graphic design

— 〽️ax krieger's big mood (@MaxKriegerVG) December 28, 2017

See also:

Just found out the wonderful @ScienceMuseum logo designed by @johnsonbanks has been replaced with a simple typeface. From Burberry to Yves Saint Laurent, brands are doing this and IMO it's a shame and a copout. So, coining a #portmanteau for this: brand + brand+ blah = #blahnd. pic.twitter.com/yAy9Jwg5tT

— Irene Hoffman (@ihoffman) March 7, 2019

Yeah this shit is wild.

Part of me likes this trend to sans serif, user focused Appleworld—it’s kind of like, the final and unexpected triumph of Modernism. But the context is wrong. For the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, these kinds of people, there was a utopian dimension to modernism, even a Marxist dimension, which is totally lacking here. They’re not trying to shake off the dead weight of the past, they’re cutting corners. It’s fast food.

i don’t know, who cares? design looks this way because this is what design looks like in 2019, we don’t always need to ascribe moral qualities to aesthetics

Hegel says it means something

I'm confused, have y'all heard of vaporwave?

Oh sorry lol

oh no our poor brands

I linked to it on the VW thread, but for the sake of this thread, here is where the Global Village Coffeehouse aesthetic is laid out:
https://www.are.na/blog/the-global-village-coffeehouse-aesthetic

Also, from the same site, a glorious gallery of examples:
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/global-village-coffeehouse

Good place to find this aesthetic: early 1990s issues of Utne Reader pic.twitter.com/VyuoHlr1VQ

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) March 9, 2019

Trϵϵship go home ur drunk

This is supposed to be a safe space to care about aesthetics

Never stop, treeship

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Thebeloved_conscience.jpg

bingo

"Einstein Bros. Bagels-core"

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/23/2c/e0/232ce01d321617e8ed80486d10c5378b--bagel-music-to.jpg " class="noborder">

https://theblacksheeponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/einsteinbrosweirdwallartjpeg.jpg " class="noborder">

oops

https://theblacksheeponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/einsteinbrosweirdwallartjpeg.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/23/2c/e0/232ce01d321617e8ed80486d10c5378b--bagel-music-to.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/cjAHW381umqRh0tiRoJTMpqaVOM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-189069-1336110266.jpeg.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71KZA7EJEBL._SX360_BO1,204,203,200_.gif

It feels SO familiar... yet I can't find the cover it reminds me of !

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, March 11, 2019 9:37 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just about to say "oh of course it looks like..." but all the LPs I'm looking at aren't it. It's a big LP from the early 90s, and I've seen it many times before.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, March 11, 2019 10:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ILX's collective intelligence will find the answer to this frustrating quest !

― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, March 11, 2019 10:19 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, you guys are definitely right. If it's what I'm thinking of, the design was a big departure from other album covers the artist had released. The Soho Goddess album that Willl linked to is close but not quite it.

Its really bugging me so I've been on a deep dive through early 90's album covers. Candidate #2 = 'Let Them Eat Bingo' by Beats International: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/LetThemEatBingo.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/LetThemEatBingo.jpg
apologies, img embed fail

Feel like the opening titles to Northern Exposure are the purest distillation of this aesthetic: the theme tune already sounds like a Vampy Weeks pastiche.

Can someone start a twitter campaign to get them to cover it?

place in Raleigh literally called “Global Coffehouse Village”, was this a known fact and I was just i. the dark? And yes, the logo is extremely predictable.

Someone posted this on Twitter and it's bugging me that I can't identify it. Disclaimer: it may not be an album.

Twitter, What is this and where is it from? Its doing my canister in pic.twitter.com/3cj91qXFKc

— SfH (@simonfromharlow) May 31, 2019

one of the first replies says saved by the bell and it does look identical to the aesthetic in the opening credits for that

looks like generic late-'80s Trapper Keeper art, could be from anything

it's definitely a tv show.

actually it appears it's a thing that's spread on whatsapp in the uk and might be a bit of a pain in the arse thing without a real answer (it's apparently not saved by the bell, may just be some generic patter than brings to mind that style)

tweeter you quoted has deleted the tweet due to finding this out

"and that sense of upper-middle-class 'global village' syncretic fusionism that I think really begins in the 80s"

Seriously no one ITT is bringing up Rusted Root, the Everything, or Dave Matthews?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/25/38/e92538aeee4d8f3d58ad2f35bbb6f532.jpg

I saw a car this week with 2(!) of those stickers^^

i'm a huge fan of this band but this is way over the top

https://merch.ambientinks.com/collections/purebathingculture/products/earthling-tee

reminds me of duckman for some reason

Feel like this set of Big Thief merch really captures the vibe.

GUYS GUYS ITS HERE ITS SO BEAUTIFUL pic.twitter.com/UvOBmfJHU8

— BalaPatty💫⭐️ (@BalaPattySZN) November 19, 2020

New website for the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute:
https://cari.institute/

that website is amazing!

this doesn't seem like a particularly good example of Global Village Coffeehouse (though it is listed a such), but this was actually the Nintendo website homepage at one point??! Insane

https://images.are.na/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJhcmVuYV9pbWFnZXMiLCJrZXkiOiIxOTg2NjI5L29yaWdpbmFsXzUwYzAxZTE0OGFjOTc1ZWE3YzU0MmQyNzAxMTU0MDE3LnBuZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6MTIwMCwiaGVpZ2h0IjoxMjAwLCJmaXQiOiJpbnNpZGUiLCJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWV9LCJ3ZWJwIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjkwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo5MH0sInJvdGF0ZSI6bnVsbH19?bc=1

Fantastic, so many looks from the 90s/2000s that I recognize but could never articulate as an aesthetic. Googie-Lounge Kitsch gives me vivid flashbacks of my Disney World vacations as a child in the early 1990s, particularly the MGM/Hollywood Studios park.

As a general FYI, you can still see surviving examples of actual Googie here in L.A.

that website is great, though i'm a bit disappointed in how lopsided it is towards more recent stuff. hopefully that will change.

this was actually the Nintendo website homepage at one point??! Insane

Definitely not, it appears to be their annual shareholder's report.

wow that website is the real fuckin deal

xp Deflatormouse, idk, looks more like a website to me. But maybe not their public-facing homepage? Letter to Shareholders looks more like a link, and why would it say "Nathaniel's Fun Factory" on the letter to shareholders?

but yeah now that I think about it, why would it say 1999. maybe you're right. still confusing, beyond the very confusing branding

its the website for the shareholder report - found it on wayback

def gonna get baked and look at that site tonight

Yes sorry shareholder report *in website form*

Nintendo homepage ca. 99 is here:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990427192531/http://www.nintendo.com/home/index.html

I like this but how many of these "aesthetic categories" are basically just riffs on Memphis Milano

this doesn't seem like a particularly good example of Global Village Coffeehouse (though it is listed a such)

It does to me. Earth with a childlike hand-drawn face on it, warm colors, sun/moon imagery -- all of that feels very GVC.

I kinda want to live inside "Corporate Tech Laser Grid"