Milano mepphis was one of the last hurrah of post modern. A decent trend at least. Corporate Memphis is an abomination. It’s like meeting Clint Eastwoods great grandchild who has a mullet, has no option on anything, and works as a real estate agent. It’s not wrong but lack of character and conviction is such a bore.
It looks like primer and the car is unfinished
Smart everything. I’m buying second hand TVs simply so they are not marketing to me as soon as I turn it on.
Terms of design I feel like since postmodern we have had a bastardisation of flat design which was really mostly suited to information design but it got shoved on everything hence the monochrome blandness. On the other side we got a bastardisation of arts and crafts maybe where people tried to digitally replicate traditional methods, we got hand lettering stamping etc. then they swished them together and true design got shoved out the window in favour of ,
how can we grab the users attention, to
how can we hold the viewer captive, to
How can we force the viewer to absorb, to
The how can we annoy the viewer so much they will pay to just read/view in peace.
I am not sure what this design movement will be called
Cleaning needs adding to this list. Not just wash dishes The ability so see dirt, make a schedule, etc.