From the gallery:
https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/2365279/large_139ea3eea71eb5497d36ec66fb814677.jpg?1530161891
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
I'm very into that gallery
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
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― marcos, Monday, March 11, 2019 11:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Monday, March 11, 2019 11:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is so motherfucking otm i can't even
― macropuente (map), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
I think it’s just the 20 year nostalgia cycle we’ve been experiencing since, like, 1973
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
i was just thinking about how it was weird at woodstock they had sha na na play dress up 50s rock when many of the original rock n rollers were still doing great work at that time and killing it live
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
That's an interesting point, there aren't even any on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock#Declined_invitations_or_missed_connections
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Looks like Chuck Berry (for example) was actively playing festivals that year: He also played at large events in North America, such as the Schaefer Music Festival, in New York City's Central Park in July 1969, and the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in October. (per Wikipedia)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
I tried Googling the question, and the best I could find was a web page containing this info:
Elvis himself had no interest in hippies. He was a part of a previous generation and viewed hippies as a threat to society.
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
i think design trends are interesting, idk
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
xp
You should follow this blog (serious, not snarky, suggestion): https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
i didn't realize 'global village coffeehouse' was actually a term used outside of this thread
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/global-village-coffeehouse
anyway this was the first thing that came to mind
http://https%3A//www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000005811/f/styles/album_detail__545___545_/public/201709/Le%20Mystere%20Des%20Voix%20Bulgares_1%20black.jpg
― akm, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
meh
http://https%3A//www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000005811/f/styles/album_detail__545___545_/public/201709/Le%20Mystere%20Des%20Voix%20Bulgares_1%20black.jpg%3Fitok%3D1aR49Iru
― akm, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
mother fucker just look here: https://www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000005811/f/styles/album_detail__545___545_/public/201709/Le%20Mystere%20Des%20Voix%20Bulgares_1%20black.jpg?itok=1aR49Iru
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, March 12, 2019 5:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i agree! but finding design trends interesting doesn't require us to imbue them with moral value. brands widely shifting to sans-serif typefaces in their logos in 2019 does not warrant moral outrage imo
― marcos, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
I think outrage overstates my position. I love minimalism but don’t like how it’s becoming de rigeur.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
xpost ah, I thought about that "les voix bulgares" cover too !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Division_Bell#/media/File:Pink_Floyd_-_Division_Bell.jpg
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
urghhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5182VSyGE6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
pink floyd design rules!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Really like this thread! The first thing that came to mind was the second Soul II Soul album:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ISrAr0oUL.jpg
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
I guess someone mentioned Putumayo comps upthread already, but those are the first things that come to mind. They seemed to be in every bookstore and coffeehouse in the 90s. Were any of them ever any good? I remember listening to a few and not thinking much of them.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3427711619_10.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
VW cover feels kinda like a shit ver of this to me
https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/f59054970a2db9b20278fe89c7617fb4/1931175
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
This Canadian celtic-tinged college folk-rock thing:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51huzAlcbRL._SX425_.jpg
― softspool, Thursday, 14 March 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
Nice! Got some globes in various positions, a terrible font, elongated torsos, equitable gender representation...
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 14 March 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
The print edition of the New Yorker 3/11 (lol) is plastered with this aesthetic
Vw and the ny’er being synced up seems about right ...
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 14 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
xp - when you think about it we all live in this house called planet earth
― softspool, Thursday, 14 March 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
There's a Facebook group simply titled "Global Village Coffeehouse" that has loads of examples, for fans of the style. It's not quite the same but the "Shiny Happy People" video reminds me of this aesthetic--maybe the similar vibe of "earthy multicultural positivity".
Not the same vibe, but speaking of that era's design, also worth a look is the "Factory Pomo" group, which compiles this style:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GNeiWPpVzEc/WAQwxqEMzYI/AAAAAAAAEcs/ekVCMisKDzg8MS8VAAt_7fNJ_3nmvDMcACLcB/s1600/front..jpg
― blatherskite, Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
Thank you, blatherskite! I'm pretty sure that the album cover I'm thinking of would fit more comfortably into the Factory Pomo genre. I joined the group and there are definitely a lot of earth/nature symbols in there too, but in a markedly different style than the Global Village Coffeehouse stuff.
― ☮, 🐸 (peace, man), Friday, 15 March 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51EVX1G902L.jpg
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 April 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
London, Ontario's own!
― softspool, Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
The one I was thinking of was
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IPKN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
which wasn't as similar as I thought.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 5 April 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
not global village coffeehouse or factory pomo really.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 5 April 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
Saw a good example of GVC at my mom's house the other day. It was basically a flat metal sculptural form of the woman in this print. My mom said she bought it in Sedona lol.
https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/3980706/original_04f9ea5e120ee6e319a4e217b2cd0b8a.png
― jaymc, Saturday, 6 April 2019 05:34 (five years ago) link
I lived in flagstaff in the late 90s and Sedona was like peak gvc then but with bobus kokopelli everywhere
― joygoat, Saturday, 6 April 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
This feels like it fits in with this aesthetic.
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/790/MI0002790545.jpg
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
I have an album in my collection called The Planet Sleeps. It's a collection of lullabies from all over the world. It's really nice! It was released in 1997 (on compact disc only), and it fits this aesthetic to a T:https://i.imgur.com/m1p45TR.jpg
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 6 April 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
happy earth day :)
https://images.app.goo.gl/Mc1Lg2q65ooExs3QA
― J. Sam, Monday, 22 April 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
http://aggieinthecity.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/earth20day205r2.jpg
― J. Sam, Monday, 22 April 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
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.
https://youtu.be/hKDzDA-jgRs?t=83
― Stevie T, Monday, 22 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
lol good call
― jaymc, Monday, 22 April 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
I got strong vibes from this plate someone left in the breakroom sink:
https://i.imgur.com/EdccsaY.jpg
I imagine this plate magically adds sun dried tomatoes to anything you put on it.
― joygoat, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
smells like fiddlehead ferns
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
Can someone start a twitter campaign to get them to cover it?
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
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
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 31 May 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
one of the first replies says saved by the bell and it does look identical to the aesthetic in the opening credits for that
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
looks like generic late-'80s Trapper Keeper art, could be from anything
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
it's definitely a tv show.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link