What is Steampunk?

Though Steampunk style has caught the imagination of designers and artists, it isn't easily defined. It includes the influences of Flash Gordon, Mad Max, and Japanese animation...mixed with romanticism of steam locomotives, brass diving bells and dirigibles as well as the gentility of the Victorian era.

The aim of Steampunk may be to restore a sense of wonder to our technologically oriented world. I love it's orderly whimsy!