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Historical Fantasy for Industrial Designers: What if Apple Had Designed the iPhone in the '80s and '90s?

…plus other work from the masterful retro designer FuturePunk

By Rain Noe - July 22, 2019

in Object Culture

With the news of Jony Ive's departure--and given the way things have been going lately--it certainly seems an era has ended for Apple. And while I haven't been fond of the company's developments, it's impossible to forget the affinity I gained for them in decades past.

Someone who shares that affinity, or at least a fondness for decades past, is the self-styled "retro designer" who goes by the ironic handle FuturePunk. The UK-based FuturePunk refers to the 1980s as "the greatest decade in the history of mankind," and his passion is evinced with these fanciful iPhone designs and commercials he created:

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Good gosh but he nails the aesthetic.

As more proof of his '80s prowess, check out the following graphic designs he's created:

Check out more of his stuff here.

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Rob Podell

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The screens are bizarre. I had a full color palm pilot thing back when the iMacs were new, could have just used one of those screens.

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Thom Edley

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The backlit screens are all wrong. Those should have been monochrome. unlit gameboy-style LCDs.

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Stewie Griffin

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Uh.... have you forgotten about the Newton?

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