Cyberpunk is out and solarpunk is in, according to Figma’s CEO

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Cyberpunk plan has been each the rage for respective years present — this precise website was erstwhile awash successful neon colors and hard edges, you mightiness callback — but Figma CEO Dylan Field says helium sees glimmers of optimism taking over.

“I deliberation that we were truly futurist, truly cyberpunk for a while,” the laminitis of the fashionable plan instrumentality institution told the assemblage astatine a unrecorded taping of Decoder astatine SXSW erstwhile asked to comparison the Cybertruck with the just-announced Rivian R3. “A batch of neon lines, a batch of hard edges, a batch of poly oregon low-poly benignant of metaphors. And it feels similar we’re going much humanist. It feels similar we’re going possibly much solarpunk.”

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Solarpunk.

Solarpunk has been around for a fewer years now — agelong capable that the blimpish American Enterprise Institute wrote an full blog post astir however it’s a unsafe wide phantasy someway tied to AOC! — and it usually looks similar Tears of the Kingdom instrumentality art. Think abundant energy, integrated shapes, greenery embedded into architecture. Think... Emma Watson posting astir hopeful futures to her Instagram successful 2021:

“Cyberpunk is dystopia — everything’s metallic and factual and debased poly. It’s benignant of depressing, but it’s besides got that borderline to it. Whereas solarpunk is much natural, the architecture is blending with the environment,” Field said. “I deliberation it’s inactive a imaginativeness of the future, but besides it’s much quality and it’s got a batch of curves. It’s blended into the situation more, alternatively than trying to basal retired arsenic a portion of exertion oregon a portion of architecture.”

It surely seems similar cuter, friendlier designs person been capturing a batch of attraction precocious — the Rabbit R1 was the deed of CES, for example. But whether it each adds up to “solarpunk” oregon conscionable chill retro-ish design... well, you conscionable fto america cognize successful the comments.