created 2025-03-23, & modified, =this.modified
If you look at early photoshop works, or digital art, they have a particular look. You can still make design elements like this but there was guiding by constraints, with regard to (resolution, in-software tools, colors and many others). It’s visible on older book covers and magazines. All of these influenced the aesthetic (visible in the way that vaporwave points back to this Vibe).
Design and illustration itself, existed many years before the computer. So you can look into pre-digital magazines for example and see wonderful layouts and illustrations.
What I am thinking out here, is the relationship with these “advanced” tools in the world of architecture, more specifically, because of how they would manifest in the real world on a massive scale. Rendering a cleaner gradient circle within the pages of a magazine is one thing, but what if the “more advanced” circle tool exists in the realm of an architects software which will then be a stairwell? Has this computerized “advanced circle tool” imprinted itself on our world?
I see, like with the magazine example, people were making extremely advanced architecture designs prior to the development of this software, so I am not saying this is a unique thing necessarily. But what I am considering here, is the extent which computers are already designing the world (in the same sense that people playfully state that “computers are mating us” though things like Tinder and dating apps being a major source of romantic connections.)
A realized computer dream?
How much of what we see, is digitally sourced, as in a [[computer had a hand in the design? Our speech? What does this blend, when fully realized, construct?
Can it infiltrate the forest? Is this why I crave the forest?
I understand there is a flow, between both. The world and the computer are in communication. It isn’t like a computer just produced the world. But is the pressure growing one way?
A digital shape and form, overlays the world now.