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PDF: Fully Automated Luxury Communism - Issue 02 - PDF

The second issue of Fully Automated Luxury Communism explains how we got to the future depicted in issue 1 and the possible avenues that could have lead us to darker places.

Previous Issues:

PDF: Fully Automated Luxury Communism - Issue 01 - PDF
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftistsForAI/s/Lt2cJLjGmW

The final issue coming soon!

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It all started with a sunfish that I wanted to depict in a dreamlike fashion...

Truth be told: Frutiger Aero is one of my least favorite aesthetics. I dislike how it takes things of natural beauty and makes them look artificial by composition alone.

In contrast: Outrun, one of my favorite aesthetics, takes things that are obviously artificial, but composes them in a way that evokes natural beauty, without pretending to be something that it isn't.

With the aforementioned fish, I had decided to mix those two contrasting aesthetics together in order to create something pretty, yet surreal, like a plesant dream - and also because Frutiger Aero's blue and Outrun's magenta just made for a nice color scheme.

But what if I took this combination further...? What would a world built on these two aesthetics overlapping look like?

This here is the result: It's cyberprep, essentially, with an... almost obnoxiously positive vibe that I can't help but getting an uncanny valley kind of feeling from. Everything looks just right, but in a way that just doesn't look right, if you know what I mean.

I'm going to call it...

Frutiger Neon.