{"id":4925,"date":"2021-05-24T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:12:39","slug":"inspiration-retro-futuristic-product-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/inspiration-retro-futuristic-product-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration: Retro-futuristic product design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#fad900\">Retro-futuristic product design (or what I call retro\/vintage cyberpunk) refers to product designs <strong>that fit into the future as it would have been seen from the past. <\/strong>Imagine for example an old-school music player, but having functionalities or aesthetics that would exist in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the pieces featured in this article may not all be categorized as retro-futuristic by everyone, and that&#8217;s okay! It&#8217;s for inspirational purposes mostly. Some of them are just plain old devices, while others are modern concept ideas. But they all have in common a look that fits into retro-futuristic aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/futuristic-cities-cyberpunk-concept-art\/\">Concept Art of Futuristic Cities | Cyberpunk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Credits are given below each image.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Radio\/Reciever<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/XL6eL\">Joshua Cotter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/85825935\/-Once-In-A-While-Renders-49-Braun-CE-500-CSV300\">Jason Zigrino<\/a> &#8211; I love the glow and matte-finish in Jason Zigrino&#8217;s rendering. The round forms also make the products look cute and homely.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/5850vE\">Cem Tezcan (Artstation)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Black and yellow cassette player product design by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/86422873\/-Once-In-A-While-Renders-50-Sony-Boodo-Khan\">Jason Zigrini<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Retro-futuristic radio receiver by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/82373249\/-Once-In-A-While-Renders-35-Sony-ICF-5500\">Jason Zigrino<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Computer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This cyberdeck is a real creation by <a href=\"https:\/\/back7.co\/home\/raspberry-pi-recovery-kit\">Jay Doscher<\/a> (his detailed blog post) using Raspberry Pi. It looks super cute with the gorgeous white and pink keyboard and shell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game Console<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Technical Designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/dOqA8K\">Cem Tezcan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TVs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scbmypics\/6523357387\">Steve<\/a> &#8211; When I did a little digging to find out the origins of this picture, it turned out that it&#8217;s actually just an old HP-computer. But the sleek black and white colors with yellow highlight text makes it look futuristic even though it&#8217;s 100% retro!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you enjoyed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retro-futuristic product design (or retro cyberpunk) refers to designs that fit into the future as it would have been seen from the past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,191,179,167],"tags":[463,469,247,240,242,244],"class_list":["post-4925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberpunk","category-design","category-future-emerging-new-technology","category-product-design","tag-cyberpunk-en","tag-design-en","tag-design-inspiration","tag-futuristic-products","tag-product-design","tag-retro-futurism","entry"],"gutentor_comment":18,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"ocean-thumb-m":false,"ocean-thumb-ml":false,"ocean-thumb-l":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Wendy Zhou","author_link":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/author\/wendy1111live-se\/"},"uagb_comment_info":18,"uagb_excerpt":"Retro-futuristic product design (or retro cyberpunk) refers to designs that fit into the future as it would have been seen from the past.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendyzhou.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}