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How the 'Memphis Design' Created the Look of the 80s

Everything 80s

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The Memphis Design of the 1980s

The Memphis design was a response to the bland, minimal and practical design created in modernism. The 1980s were a decade that were defined for better or for worse by individualism. After the success of the Milan furniture fair the Memphis groups started to see their influence spread around the world. And it would soon make a big splash in North American pop culture.

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