Traveling back in time with the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute

A super fun hole to fall down especially if you're looking for inspiration and if you have any interest in different aesthetics that have ruled different eras of our lives, then it's a true goldmine. Each have an associated are.na board that acts as a mood board for each genre of aesthetic. Some favorites include blob world, new wave tropical, and radical surrealism.

CARI, or Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now.