Meaning of Corporate Memphis | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“Corporate Memphis is inoffensive and easy to pull off, and while its roots remain in tech marketing and user interface design, the trend has started to consume the visual world at large.”

“Corporate Memphis is everywhere, from User Interface design to editorial covers, but the pervasive nature of the style has caused many to as a symbol of the unoriginality and disingenuity of corporations.”

“Here stands a last bastion of mid-century analog quintessence, a genuine hole-in-the-wall oozing with spirit, seemingly spared by a modern design tsunami of Corporate Memphis and minimalist logos.”

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