Critical Strategy of Technical Rationality in “Memphis” Design
TANG Lin
(1.China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002, China; 2.Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China)
ABSTRACT: The work aims to study the critical thinking and strategy of “Memphis” design, which is helpful to deepen the understanding and cognition of Western post-modern design and radical design, and provides theoretical enlightenmentfor the practical design practice, as “Memphis” design is a typical representative of the post-modern industrial designtrend in the West. Based on the context of the times and international design trends, a comparative analysis was made with modernism design, and works of “Memphis” design were taken as the object of interpretation to analyze the critical strategy of “Memphis” design. With the increasingly rigid “Italian lines” representing technical rationality as the primarytarget of criticism, “Memphis” design employs such abnormal design techniques as imbalanced proportion and scale, perceptualcombination of materials, strong contrast of geometric modeling, etc. A strong and absolute criticism has been launched for the Italian orthodox design, which symbolizes elites and dignitaries and is becoming more and more solidifiedand conservative at the same time, by drawing lessons from Pop’s design and integrating metaphorical cognitive techniques into popular culture.
KEY WORDS: “Memphis” design; technical rationality; critical strategy; abnormal techniques; mass culture
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