Etymology

Corporate Memphis

Today it means: A visual art style which emerged in the late 2010s, influenced by Big Tech art and mobile app design, and characterized by flat, simplified, geometric shapes in bright solid colours. Full definition →

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The story

From corporate + Memphis, referencing the Memphis Group, an Italian architecture group that introduced a similar design style in the 1980s.

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