This is part of a series of posts summarising key points of different design movements, see A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Introduction for more information.
Post Modernism
| “Obsessed with style for its own sake” |
Began in 1970s but reached a peak around1980 to the early 1990s
Often questionable definitions and standards
‘anti-essentialist and anti-foundationalist’
the inventors, designers etc had no clear vision themselves
Radical challenge to modernism
Image was everything, large priority of form over function
Individuality, chaotic complexity and unnecessary luxury
Designed to appeal to popular consumerism, fashion, youth culture and media
Mixed very aesthetic revivals e.g. ancient Egyptian, Pop art
Included Memphis, neoprimitivism, French individualism
Examples such as Danny Lane (Etruscan chair), Ettore Sottsass (Memphis), Andrea Branzi (neoprimitivism), Robert Venturi (architecture)
CASE STUDY – Alessandro Mendini
Blue Pigeons 
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