Can you explain “steampunk” to me? I’ve heard the term used by the kids and it seems to mean sort of antique-Victorian technology, but I really don’t get it . . . .
Whatever the kids mean I dunno, but that’s what I understand: modern technologies like laptops redesigned as if they were built in the Age of Steam.
It’s ubiquitous: like in Doctor Who, compare the geometric, acrylic console from the 70s and 80s to the hodge-podge 2000s console with old typewriters and glass tubes.
Not sure there’s anything really to get beyond it being the latest in a long line of reaching back into design tradition for new ideas, like the Gothic Revival or neoclassical.
Glad your husband like it! I posted a new one today.
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