So Facebook groups are where design history happens now…
This is what I thought when a friend invited me to join Global Village Coffeehouse, a Facebook group dedicated to a specific 90s aesthetic trope. It was instantly familiar, yet something I hadn’t seen in well over a decade. A sort of faux-naive, wood-cut, pseudo-tribal look populated by jazzy symbols of dancing people, suns and aroma swirls. It started to trigger weird distant memories in my brain — scrolling through clip-art libraries the first time my dad took me to an internet cafe; the washed-out, world music, wholegrain, groovy shirts my art teacher used to wear.
15 May 2019 ... This is what I thought when a friend invited me to join Global Village Coffeehouse , a Facebook group dedicated to a specific 90s aesthetic trope ...