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CARI @cari.institute · 16/02/2024

It's Frutiger Friday! Here are some extremely Aero wallpapers from Korean design firm Asadal, circa 2007: editphoto.asadal.com/best_all.htm

Photomontage of some people walking down a paved path in a bright green meadow toward a gleaming, 2000s-futuristic city. Above them, hypersaturated green leaves mingle with digital glitter on the breeze. In the background, a plane takes off toward some giant glossy bubbles.

Photomontage of a generic LCD monitor, sitting abstractly on a shallow seafloor. Two tropical fish alight nearby, one emerging from the screen with a squished splash. Seagulls fly around glossy bubbles in the sky, and behind the monitor is a shiny blue globe on which the continents are way too small.

A ladybug in the close foreground ascends a dewy blade of glass, looking out at a 2000s-futuristic city pretty similar to the first one. Above a field of yellow and white daisies in the middleground, large shiny bubbles float through the sky, one of which contains a bucolic nature scene of a lakeshore with one perfectly-green tree.

More giant, shiny digital bubbles float over an extremely green meadow in the shadow of a cluster of high-rise apartment blocks, several of which seem to be copies of the same two buildings. Three of the bubbles contain scenes, which are fish-eyed as if reflected by them: A city overlooking a green meadow extremely similar to the background scene, a lone daffodil rising from a crowded flower bed, and three sunflowers facing the viewer away from yet another distant 2000s-futuristic city. At the bottom of this image is the text "Artplus," then some Hangul text and "photograph," and then the English text "In relation to the copyright of Artplus. The copyright. It is possible to amend and change a source lease. If violates that, you"