Why’s that?
Why’s that?
Spoiler, we never stopped the first one.
Memphis design will always win my vote. The weird ass electronics, the ground breaking UI components, just absolutely nutty decisions and insane product concepts built on everyone’s wild dreams of the future. I even think the same forward looking design concepts carried into the Y2K designs— particularly with personal electronics like phones.
#1 will be your best bet because the motivation comes free with something you’re more passionate or engaged with such as a personal project. And, on the mirror side of that, reproduce existing programs/applets in a language of your choice. For example, an HTTP client or xxd.