GCSE Product Design - Memphis Notes

The Memphis Group.

• Established in the 1980's, (1981).
• Composed of designers based in Italy.
• Memphis designers regarded aesthetics as the primary reason for the products they designed.
• Two of the best known 'Memphis' designers are Ettoire Sottsass and Danny Lane.

Memphis designs...

• visually high impact. - Most of the products designed by this group relied on visual impact, with minimum regard for the functionalism of modernism. Each product has a vibrant colour scheme, with bright, lively colours dominating.
  

• aesthetic / ornamental / exhibition pieces

• Lack functionality. - Little regard given to the function of the…