Nostalgia reveals the past, while contemporary design embraces experimentation in the modern digital and physical realms. Creating nostalgic narratives that explore the space between these two areas, digital and physical, provides open territory for exploration. So many analog products and industrial designs are no longer a part of people’s lives and have slowly faded from memory. However, people who grew up with analog products tend to hold them in a special place in their hearts as they are tied to childhood memories.
The short film, Future Perfect, is inspired by nostalgia for bygone product designs. It is a film about memory and nostalgia. It features a mix of product forms from the 1980s to the early 2000s. With each item’s behavior and character interacting in the digital realm, they come back to life with a playful spirit of experimentation as a visual archive. Product nostalgia can exist in people’s hearts and concurrently in the digital realm.
