Iris is officially an app. Most color tools tell you what colors are in an image. Iris shows you why they work together, reading proportion, balance and the role each color plays. I built it to help creatives see color differently.

Pure Futuristic Postmodernism at Palette, a West Hollywood restaurant designed by Anthony Machado (1984)

The extraordinary organic futurism of British designer Ross Lovegrove Creator of the most remarkable objects of the late 1990s and early 2000s

We should really bring back the 1980s Laser Grid aesthetic

Griffith Observatory might be the crown jewel of them all tbh

Just realized entire generations will never know the satisfying click of a mechanical shutter on a classic film camera

Big fan of retro orange desk clocks

Hot take: Los Angeles might be America’s greatest Art Deco city Few American cities embraced the future with such extraordinary imagination

Pneudome, a 25-foot-diameter inflatable bubble house designed in 1972 by the Los Angeles-based design group Chrysalis

Rare vintage Apple watches that should be reissued immediately

Official posters for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games Designed and art directed by Yusaku Kamekura

Honestly a really big fan of an Art Deco building crowns

The extraordinary porcelain of Japanese ceramic master Tokuda Yasokichi III His Saiyū glazing technique transformed traditional Kutani ceramics into brilliant color spectrums of cobalt Developed in the 1970s, his work earned him Japan’s prestigious Living National Treasure designation in 1997

Psychedelic paperback covers from the 1960s-70s

Escalator at the Detroit Science Center opened in 1978 Designed by architect William Kessler

I want you to do me a favor Look at these random 1970s living rooms None of them are overly expensive in their furnishings. No crazy lighting set ups. But the color choices are great. Each part of the room feels like its own little world. The attention to detail is immaculate. Now ask yourself what made society accept today’s boring, lifeless, grey interiors where 90% of look the same. It’s a big why and needs answering.

Amazing mid century design from British Overseas Airways Corporation BOAC was government owned, merged with British Airways in 1974, then privatized by Margaret Thatcher in 1987