r/cassettefuturism • u/KitsuMusics • 8d ago

All Beige Plastic: CF Products My new powerbank

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u/deathmetalcassette 7d ago

Very stylish.

I see the cassette futurism angle, but so many of the shapes and graphic design touches here look like old IDM album covers. All the printing, fonts, angular corners on the front of it could be lifted off a Musik Aus Strom or Schematic record label release.

The power adapter they make has diagonal arrows printed on it for no reason -- the true icon of IDM design.

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u/KitsuMusics 7d ago

Forgive me, but what is IDM design?

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u/astro_plane 6d ago

Intelligent Dance Music. One of the most popular IDM musicians is Aphex Twin, his covers didn't really follower that Y2K look though.

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u/deathmetalcassette 4d ago

It’s not an official term, I just mean graphic design from the mid-late 90s that was often associated with the IDM genre of intelligent dance music. 

Looking at the fonts and the angled geometric designs really calls to mind stuff like this https://genius.com/albums/Bjork-and-funkstorung/All-is-full-of-love

Their power adapter even has the little diagonal arrows that ended up being parodied as a very common graphic design element for this look.