If there is one new “look” or “feel” that arose sometime in 2008, it is what I would call the lumnious light line – the streaky, glowing decoration used to illuminate, beautifully, a dark scene – as if the photograph were being tampered with by people running through a long exposure with glow sticks.
It is amazing how quickly a swipe of a light can become inspired design.
Just like certain fonts and colors are associated with the seventies, sixties or other decades in our culture, I know that I will be seeing this in my future children’s art history books when style of the 2000′s is mentioned.
We seem, too, to be obsessed with doing things on dark backgrounds. I wonder if this reflects our outlook on life, or the fact that we’re spending more time than ever in front of the computer screen…
