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2026-07-03 11:16 UTC

@Kroc@oldbytes.space As a kid the Utopian Scholastic aesthetic was so present everywhere and it really felt like we'd sort of come to the end of history and were looking back at it like we were in a museum. I'm sure a lot of that was just childhood innocence but also I think there was just a lot more optimism for the future back then.

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@Kroc@oldbytes.space 2026-07-03 11:24

@dfstarshine@icosahedron.website I believe, in practice, that the style simply comes from digital-typesetting. It finally became possible to print books with full colour digital images anywhere in the page. That had been either prohibitively expensive or impossible in the past, and I think it lead directly to Utopian Scholastic’s design elements of disparate items combined together on the page. Education books no longer had to be boring and digital photo manipulation allowed designers to play with layout in a way they hadn’t been able to before with manual / photo-typesetting

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