That deliberately muted aesthetic was meant to underscore the show's darkly comic and unsettling themes.
The muted aesthetic makes the food seem even wilder than it is, no easy feat.
They worked in their bedrooms late at night, keeping their voices down so as not to wake their families — a source, both say, of the xx's muted aesthetic.
Even though the iPod advertising campaign is colorful, Apple products are defined by a muted aesthetic.
Several productions of the play, including a 1963 Austrian television adaptation and a 2007 production at the Royal Court with Benedict Cumberbatch, adopted a muted, realistic aesthetic to counterbalance the piece's moments of madness and farce.
The Oscar-nominated, 80s-set The Squid And The Whale came with a muted retro aesthetic – not to mention a wilfully obscure title – while, in 2004, Baumbach co-wrote with Wes Anderson what has to be the latter's most esoteric film, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
These aren't just new twists on old templates, however; while some familiar controls and mechanics reappear, some additional twists, modifications and subtleties make for moments where a player is still surprised, as well as continually delighted by the muted, playful aesthetic and the rewarding feeling that comes with solving each level's Escher-esque environment design.
I first came across the videos on Solange's Web site, solangemusic.com, and I wasn't surprised to learn that Solange co-directed them with her husband, the music-video director Alan Ferguson (clean, crisp angles), and collaborated on art direction with the Spanish photographer Carlota Guerrero (the muted, feminine desert aesthetic).
The result is a collection with an unmistakably Scandi aesthetic in a muted, understated colour palette.
With the exception of her baby bangs, which are THE WORST, it is a paradise YouTube moment, non? (I'm also going to permit that the Euro aesthetic of dustily muted pastels is, on its own, always compelling, too, like Mini-Eggs shells were ground into the film).
These first-time buyers, many of them furnishing dorm rooms or refitting bedrooms in their parents' homes, embrace a vivid, upbeat aesthetic more than the muted Pottery Barn style of their baby boom parents.
