What will be the defining design characteristics of the twenty-teens?

"anonsagainstanonymous" (anonsagainstanonymous)
06/05/2014 at 17:33 • Filed to: None

You know what I'm talking about. Design features that were so ubiquitous for a short while that they will never not be associated with the decade they ruled.

The fifties had the massive chromed grills and tail fins.

(That booty got bling)

The eighties had these ... things*

(eeeewwww**)

Every car in the nineties looked like a blob of dough.

(Hyundai dealer lot. ca 1996)

The twenty-noughties saw the "retro wave" destroy all semblance of good taste.

(2004 PT Cruiser)

So, what do you guys think will be considered "typical twenty-teens" 10-20 years from now? Obviously-LED-LED-Lights? Elephantiasis-style-combi-coupé-CLS-clones?

*Author realizes popup headlights were also ubiquitous in the seventies and nineties, but come on...

**Author doesn't actually dislike popup headlights, but they've had their time.

DISCUSSION (18)

HammerheadFistpunch > anonsagainstanonymous
06/05/2014 at 17:36

LED lighting and trapezoidal grills.

Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna > anonsagainstanonymous
06/05/2014 at 17:36

I for one welcome the CLS-esque-LED fad with open arms.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > anonsagainstanonymous
06/05/2014 at 17:43

huge grilles, squinty headlights, sharpened blobs of dough... and yeah, bloated, safety mandated design

anonsagainstanonymous > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna
06/05/2014 at 17:54

"I for one welcome the frizzy hair and hot pink fad with open arms." - Everyone, ca 1984.

Blondude > anonsagainstanonymous
06/05/2014 at 17:58

Angry headlights and coupes that aren't coupes.

anonsagainstanonymous > Blondude
06/05/2014 at 17:59

Yessss. The Elephantiasis Coupé fad must die.

Nibbles > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna
06/05/2014 at 18:06

The new MB LEDs that fade in and out are AWESOME

Nibbles > anonsagainstanonymous
06/05/2014 at 18:07

LEDs and lasers paving the way for headlights that don't look like any headlights we've ever seen before ever.

anonsagainstanonymous > Nibbles
06/05/2014 at 18:14

I believe we're entering an era where the designers are too focused on showing off that they are indeed LED lights.

Nibbles > anonsagainstanonymous
06/05/2014 at 18:18

I think we hit that point a couple years ago, and are on the downward slope. Designers are using more diffusers to make LED arrays put out normal light. It won't be long now and LEDs, by and large, will be attractive.