Visual Analysis of Memphis Design Style

What is the origin of Memphis style?

In 1981, designers led by Eto Sottsass formed the Memphis Design Group in Milan, Italy. They opposed the monotonous and cold modernism of the time, and began to advocate decoration, emphasizing products made by handcrafted methods, and actively seeking inspiration from pop art, oriental art, and traditional African and Latin American art. They actively sought inspiration from pop art, oriental art, and traditional African and Latin American art.

Memphis's no plan lively, innocent and natural, humor and comical, extremely expressive, by the Wall Street Journal called the recovery of aesthetics. It is internationally recognized as one of the representatives of the post-modernist design trend. Especially on the modern industrial product design, commodity packaging, clothing design and other aspects have a wide range of influence.

Color use: highly saturated solid colors

Design features: repetitive geometric patterns

Furniture design: mix and match of new materials

Visual output: pseudo three-dimensional, dislocated variations