Art, era & culture
Memphis design
メンフィス・デザイン
A playful postmodern design language launched in 1981, combining vivid colour, asymmetrical geometry, speckled patterns and kitsch motifs.
How to recognise it
- Irregular vivid and pastel geometry
- Speckles, squiggles and deliberately playful discord
Different from nearby terms
In contrast to Bauhaus functional order, it breaks with rationalist good-taste conventions and embraces deliberate discord, ornament, kitsch and play.
Words for AI
EnglishMemphis design character, vivid colour, asymmetrical geometry, terrazzo speckles and squiggles
日本語メンフィス・デザインの人物、鮮色、非対称幾何、斑点と波線、遊びのある装飾
