Ettore Sottsass - Work in Progress / Design Museum London

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Uploaded by on May 22, 2007

http://www.vernissage.tv | Ettore Sottsass, the most celebrated designer of his generation celebrates his 90th birthday in September. Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. Sottsass has designed an exhibition with the Design Museum London which explores a remarkable career that spans sixty years and moves from ceramics to mainframe computers and from poetry to pragmatism. Design Museum London, London, May 17, 2007. By http://www.vernissage.tv

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  • Memphis was more of a reaction against 1970's modernism, which they saw as bland, minimal, and colourless. Memphis emphasized bright colours, and drew from the avant garde and pop influences (the collective got their name from a bob dylan song).

  • memphis' philosophy was antidesign....Am I right?

  • he was also a painter..

  • was he a painter???

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