r/RetroFuturism 27m ago

IBM PS/2 Model P70 motherboard - ASCII art by me

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This is the most time intensive text art I've ever made.

Tools I used to make this: Monodraw, Procreate, Glitché, and Destroypix. Font is FM Towns. Initially it starts off with finding the right image, which for this one I used an image from the inside of this computer I found on the site Oldcrap. Then imported to Monodraw as a reference layer and manually go over the edge of every object in the image - painstaking. I could use an edge detection algorithm, but they just don't work for highlighting fine details and omitting certain details you don't want in, so the way I do it is all manual. Then after I'm done with the ascii base layer, I'll copy the text into procreate and add in background colors, superimpose bigger text characters such as the ◙ symbol for the fan, and to add wiring which is very difficult to pull off with text without sacrificing aesthetics. Then once that's done, I'll glitch it out with Glitche and Destroypix, which allow me to replicate portions of the image to look like a window lagging effect.


r/RetroFuturism 7h ago

A House in 1989, Gurney Miller Illustrations

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310 Upvotes

Mechanix Illustrated, 1957.


r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Floating City

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This is an actual concept. From the description: As sea levels rise, imperiling coastal communities, one form of mitigation will be offshore floating cities. What kinds of innovative, resilient, multi-modal planning will engineers need to do to take on the rising water? The Floating City leverages innovations in ocean engineering to create an urban system that operates in symbiosis with its surrounding ecology both above and below the surface.

In full disclosure, I despise the META company who owns this concept, and I doubly despise that they’re cashing in on an avoidable disaster. The floating city, however, tickles my imagination.


r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

Found this in a west german picture encyclopaedia for kids from 1988 but the pictures could be older

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497 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

My continued work in progress (My Unfinished Office Diorama)

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I’ve added additional buildings and began expanding the eastern part of the dystopian skyline. Would love to hear what you think. Thank you so much for all the compliments on my last post.🙏🏼


r/RetroFuturism 1d ago

PMI-TRC-4: a rare do-all 1983 prototype; ASCII artwork by me

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324 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Futuristic City According to Omni

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373 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

MechArachnide by artist Tom Hisbergue

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103 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Garage by artist Tom Hisbergue

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140 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Ray Gun Gallery

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260 Upvotes

Weapons were a lot cooler in the retrofuture.


r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

Piece I made for a client

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23 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 2d ago

If you're on the water.html

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454 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4d ago

Sharp_PC-G850V.ITAN

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50 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 4d ago

Airliner Number 4, 1929-32

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516 Upvotes

"Airliner Number 4 was a design by Norman Bel Geddes and Otto A. Koller for a 9-deck amphibious passenger aircraft intended to replace the large transatlantic liners that traveled between Europe and North America before the Second World War. It was never built." – Wikipedia


r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Retrofuturism is the main inspiration of the art I make

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598 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

NASA’s 1965 Space Suit Test Robot

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334 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

I make retrofuturistic tech designs completely made out of text

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567 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Retro rocket illustration

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47 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 5d ago

Retrofuturism inspired Lego ship, how'd I do with the aesthetic?

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1.5k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

An mmpr communicator watch!

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125 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

1956 Mercury XM Turnpike Cruiser concept photo and video.

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174 Upvotes

MyClassicCarTV video of the XM TPC today – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mezw8rK9pb8


r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

1939 New York World's Fair Transportation Building Rocket Port postcard.

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62 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

1939 New York World's Fair Westinghouse Electric Building postcard.

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157 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 7d ago

James Bond gets a text message (The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977)

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5.1k Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 7d ago

Charles Schridde’s ‘House of the Future’

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618 Upvotes