Old Design versus New

As of recently I was making trip to my local target I spotted this kind of funky retro 70's looking tissue boxes. Needless to say I got 4 of them for 2.99. Once again I saw same tissues box I bought in a traditional old school looking bathroom. The tissue box has a better design in comparison to the horrific flowers on curtains and the wallpaper. The flowers are just bad in design. Only thing I like about this bathroom is how it photographed: yellow and green are harmonious colors but design wise not appropriate for modern bathroom This box that Kleenex has is available in green and orange colors. I know its an over use design but its caught my attention. The vibrant colors and simple geometric forms makes this box appealing compared to a typical. This got me curious on who was designing these boxes. I found that consumer can design their own kleenex box. It was not too surprising considering how many items can be personalized these days. This site where one can design a personal tissue box:

http://www.mykleenextissue.com/canvas

It's pretty limited because you have to settle with their design and can only upload images. Not to mention the available fonts are so typical. I would love see a tissues box with only typography. But, for the use of tissue boxes, its seems that most of them look the same. Most contain floral design and pastel colors. I did find some hello kitty ones and nature scene ones but so far I liked these series of boxes because they reminded me of the 70's (peace and love design) and vibrant colors. The simple shapes say it all: Mondern design.

If any of you know some graphic design history there was a period called rococo. I found this nice tissues box on the net and thought to myself, "how times have changed in design," and they sure have even in tissues boxes!

Take look at this Rococo tissues box (somebody actually had this in their car).Nice!
How many of you have tissue box in your car? I know I do, the vibrant retro Kleenex box.