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The irony is that there's nothing Memphis here. It's all corporate. Original 80s Memphis was migraine-inducingly Weird As Fuck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
The irony is that there's nothing Memphis here. It's all corporate.
Original 80s Memphis was migraine-inducingly Weird As Fuck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group
A very heavily watered down version influenced MTV and an even more neutered version was splattered across numerous corporate brochures and reports in the 90s. But it was only Memphis in the most superficial sense, riffing off bright colours, geometric squiggles, and a few stock Memphis textures like zebra print.
This doesn't even have that. It's just bland, cartoony, sometimes literally faceless, and flat - visually as well as emotionally.
- jjeaff 6y agoI can see some similarities. There are lots of geometric shapes as well as bright pastel colors used in this new "corporate Memphis".
- emptyparadise 6y agoLosing all identity is the final fate of anything that becomes corporate.