The Y2K Aesthetic Institute just kills me. I'm not even sure I liked the Blobject look that much at the time but in retrospect I feel like I appreciate it so much more now. I really miss just having some damn color in my products.
@spex I know I wasn't particularly into the look at the time, but god damn do I miss it with how monolithic everything's become since.
(and yeah I didn't think of it as an aesthetic of its own back then either but it's kind of amazing how much this stuff sneaks up on you; the early-mid '00s and the tail end of the '90s absolutely had their own look distinct from the earlier '90s and the late '00s/early '10s in retrospect)
@Thaminga yeah couldn't agree more about the monolithic part. Rectangles with subtle curved corners now.
Those curved corners are it too. They're that last bit of the early 2000s design era just hanging on for dear life!