Disney’s “House of the Future” circa 1957

1950’s Home of the Future

One of my favorite things in the world is the vision of the future seen through the eyes of people living in the 1950’s. I always loved dreaming of what living in the year 2000 would be like when I was a kid. The visions that spoke the strongest to me were advertisements in the mid-century of millennium living. Now I love seeing how their ideas of how we should be living now compares it to how we are actually living. Because we were bombarded with those images growing up they helped shape the way we design products and packaging. Become a self-fulfilling prophesy of sorts.

Mars and Beyond (1957)

Walt Disney's idea of what life might be like on Mars if we colonized it. I just love visions of the future from the 1950's. Look at the little space terrarium in the first picture, soooo cool!

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I Dream of Jeannie’s Bottle

The other day my sister and I were discussing our fantasy houses. Where we would live anywhere, anytime, or any dimension if we could. From my childhood, it has always been the same. Inside Jeannie’s bottle from the TV show, “I dream of Jeannie”. It was just so pretty, and sparkly, and filled with magic and puffy ottomans. So girlie and Turkish filtered through that 1960’s design ascetic that I love. Not to mention it’s compact and mobile.

AIR JELLY!!!

This is the millennium I was waiting for! One with abstract pretty flying things floating all about. I don't even care if they serve any sort of practical purpose as long as they are amazing looking, (and burn clean fuel). Created for the world by Festo is the Air Jelly. Do yourself a favor and click on the Air Jelly link. Pictures do not do this craft justice, you have to watch it in flight. It’s movements are so intricate and elegant I could sit and watch it all day long! Along with the Air Jelly they have made a water version called the Aqua Jelly which is equally as elegant if not more so. Then there is the Air Penguin !!!! So sleek!! What does it do? I don’t know, or care I’m just too stunned by its design to go any further than that! So pretty, it makes me happy just to look at them! Good job Festo!!!

Futuristic Elegance- The Work Of Patrice Hubert

I think one of my requirements for loving an artist is A- growing green with envy at their talent and B- not being about to fully describe it. Patrice Hubert is one of my new favorite artists, but for the life of me I can’t eloquently describe his work. Every time I try just a long stream of descriptions come out. Dark, mechanized, industrial, edgy, Baroque, otherworldly, AMAZING!!! Do yourself a favor and check out his website.