Do you associate "Memphis style" with the 80s or 90s?
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Definitely associate it with the Old Kingdom.
Someone had to get the joke out of the way. Also, answer is 90s for me.
Someone had to get the joke out of the way. Also, answer is 90s for me.
I was born in '86 and this is basically the aesthetic of my early memories, so we'll say very early 90s
Yeah, as has been said, late 80s through early 90s.
A style so great, it crosses all boundaries of time.
I personally adore this style. Looks so surreal, yet hyper colorful.
Really wish we could make it come back in some way.
Bonus Japanese Sonic boxart in honor of this glorious style.
A style so great, it crosses all boundaries of time.
I personally adore this style. Looks so surreal, yet hyper colorful.
Really wish we could make it come back in some way.
Bonus Japanese Sonic boxart in honor of this glorious style.
As someone who was a kid in the '80s, I don't know how people associate this with the '90s.
Designs like this were even in The Print Shop on the Apple IIs in my primary school.
Designs like this were even in The Print Shop on the Apple IIs in my primary school.
80s bleeding into 90s.
Anyone ever see Ruthless People? The interiors of Danny DeVito's character's mansion are ridiculous. It was 1986.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzA3ZKya1gg
Anyone ever see Ruthless People? The interiors of Danny DeVito's character's mansion are ridiculous. It was 1986.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzA3ZKya1gg
I associate it with the 80s because thats when I remember first seeing this style, but it definitely lasted a few years into the 90s.
Man! I came in here thinking Memphis style would be about 8ball and MJG, 3-6 Mafia and SkinnyPimp.
A period from the mid-late 80s to the early 90s. I know the Memphis Group was around before then but there are stronger style signifiers of the times co-existing with early Memphis.
Yeah pretty much everyone calling late 80s to early 90s. It's neither only 1 decade or the other. It's the 10 years between the two
I'm partial to the three-grouping of late-previous/early-years, mid/central-years, late-years/early-following. For example, 1978-1982, 1983-1987, 1988-1992... And even then, you can whittle those down slightly by pairing the 2nd and 3rd year together and the 7th and 8th years together as "transitional years" from prior group to the next group.
I think it's relevance in popular culture has an effect on that. Grunge started in the mid-80s, but most people will, without giving it a second thought, associate it with the 90s when it hit mainstream.
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This is also what I thought, and I voted 90s out of instinct. Then I looked at the topic and I was like "uhhh...I guess 90s but both"
Both.
And I love it. It's so loud and colorful and busy. I'd give just about anything to see this come back and displace the relentlessly dreary and boring minimalism of today. I miss bright colors and neon lights. The 80s & 90s had real personality when it came to architecture and graphic design. I'll take tacky and garish over boring and lifeless any day of the week.
And I love it. It's so loud and colorful and busy. I'd give just about anything to see this come back and displace the relentlessly dreary and boring minimalism of today. I miss bright colors and neon lights. The 80s & 90s had real personality when it came to architecture and graphic design. I'll take tacky and garish over boring and lifeless any day of the week.
80s? I wasn't conscious around the time this was trending, so what do I know. Didn't Rugrats do something like this? Was that 90s?
When I saw the thread title, I thought this was going to be about wrestling.
On topic, about 89 - 94, is the timeframe I think of when it comes to this style of design.
On topic, about 89 - 94, is the timeframe I think of when it comes to this style of design.
80's because the 90's took the look and tried to "funk it up" and ground it more in reality, making it look more like graffiti and emphasizing more neon. The 90's was a lot more about appropriating African style patterns mixed with DayGlo rather than the simpler abstract shapes and patterns of the Memphis group. Similar but still pretty different.
