To score his first solo album, Jesse Hackett fished a Yamaha PSR-110 keyboard out of a trash heap. The keyboard’s low-fi, precanned sounds inspired his first single, “The Dump Run,” and also the ...

As a general rule, nostalgia in art is bad. It’s a gimmick that makes people like your art more than they should, because it’s familiar, and it is never seriously critical. Nostalgia is an ...

Today we learned that popular 1990s soda/xtreme sports pump-up drink Surge is back: Amazon will now deliver a 12-pack to your house for $14. If you hadn’t thought about Surge since the late 1990s, it ...

Vaughan Oliver designed album art for the bands that defined a decade, from the Pixies and the Breeders to the Cocteau Twins. The Breeders’ song “Cannonball,” the lead single from the band’s 1993 ...

The 1990s were a golden age for bold design choices. Teams weren't afraid to experiment with color palettes and logos. The vibes were loud—"extreme" was the buzzword. Today, major sports leagues have ...

Decades after the Sailor Guardians hooked generations on anime and made the magical-girl anime series famous worldwide, the notoriously nostalgic Hot Topic will get the next generation in on the ...

Reynold Ruffins, an illustrator, graphic designer and artist who was an early member of Push Pin Studios, the impish and buzzy design firm founded by his Cooper Union classmates Milton Glaser, Ed ...