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Corporate Memphis

Corporate Memphis proper noun: 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.

corporate memphis: a visual art style which emerged in the late 2010s, influenced by Big Tech art and mobile app...
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Proper noun

Corporate Memphis

  1. 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.
    • 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.2021 January 24, Josh Gabert-Doyon, “Why does every advert look the same? Blame Corporate Memphis”, in Wired
    • 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.2021, Olivia Zheng, “Stop Copying Facebook”, in The Stuyvesant Spectator, New York, NY: Stuyvesant High School, page 14

Origin of Corporate Memphis

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

Questions about Corporate Memphis

What does Corporate Memphis mean?
Corporate Memphis 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.
What part of speech is Corporate Memphis?
Corporate Memphis is a proper noun.

Words near Corporate Memphis in the dictionary

  1. corporate ladders
  2. corporate law
  3. corporate lawyer
  4. corporate lawyers
  5. corporate manslaughter
  6. Corporate Memphis
  7. corporate nun
  8. corporate nuns
  9. corporate raid
  10. corporate raider
  11. corporate raiders

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