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Memphis was born on the evening of December 11, 1980, when Sottsass invited a group of young designers and architects to discuss the future of design. [3] Together, they wanted to change the concept of what design had been focused on, which had been Modernism and aimed to do so by creating and forming a new design collective.
Du Pasquier, the youngest member of the Memphis Group, designed textiles and furniture items. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The group was known for making work under the motto "form follows fun". [ 9 ] After the Memphis Group broke up, Du Pasquier shifted her focus to work on her solo career as a painter and sculptor.
Corporate Memphis is an art style named after the Memphis Group that features flat areas of color and geometric elements. Widely associated with Big Tech illustrations in the late 2010s [ 1 ] and early 2020s, [ 2 ] it has been met with a polarized response, with criticism focusing on its use in sanitizing corporate communication, [ 1 ] as well ...
The Memphis Group was a postmodern, collaborative, architecture and design group founded by Sottsass in Milan Italy. The group focused heavily on furniture design with an emphasis on unconventional types. The designers became well known for their bright and bold pieces with clashing colors. At the time, furniture was solely meant to be functional.
Carl Johnson, pictured above in the Aug. 8, 1972 edition of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, died Dec. 26, 2023. He was 88 years old, and the longest serving elected school board official.
How did Memphians celebrate Valentine’s Day 100 years ago? Join us, won’t you, as we look back at Feb. 14, 1924.
MEMPHIS BASKETBALL: Which Tigers can come back and whose college careers are over. Hardaway spoke at length recently about the differences between his two most recent rosters. In 2022-23, Kendric ...
In 1984 she published Memphis: Research, Experiences, Results, Failures and Successes of New Design, a manifesto for the group's design philosophy. In it she focused on the broad output of the group's designers, from laminates and glass designs by Ettore Sottsass to patterned fabrics by Nathalie du Pasquier and ceramics by Matteo Thun .