http://mirror80.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Malibu-Musk1.jpg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:06 (nine years ago) link
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/AWI/AW2024.jpg
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:09 (nine years ago) link
yeah def. this style always felt more Californian to me when it was occurring, as if MALIBU in neon pink letters should be thrown in somewhere on any ad using it. I guess it's the bright colors.
there's probably an eighties beach boys album in this motif.
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:11 (nine years ago) link
the malibu musk motif, not the geometric abstraction one. the latter might be too much for their fans.
all 80s UK boys' bedroom wallpaper was like a diluted trickle-down version of this, in 1985-89
― piscesx, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:40 (nine years ago) link
there's a fine line between high art/couture and everything is terrible found-footage instructional videos with some of this.
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:46 (nine years ago) link
i think the line is where the bold colors of the italian designers transition into the pastel pinks and blues of the mall.
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:48 (nine years ago) link
Mint chocolate chip
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:25 (nine years ago) link
https://www.google.com/search?q=flipsiders&gs_l=img
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:32 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if that works but it should be image search for flipsiders
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm not claiming that it is literally the same aesthetic but that is the vibe I'm catching
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:42 (nine years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V2U93Y5qf0M/U9FsKYoBWjI/AAAAAAAAAvc/BOfiCLHz4ls/s1600/05_love_and_Pride_LP.jpg
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:01 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515tWQrIrHL.jpg
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JKD5BZC4VY8/TSulGfl60bI/AAAAAAAAPX4/BwCJ39BGIHs/s1600/debarge.jpg
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:11 (nine years ago) link
can't handle wide pants though -- ugh
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
One thing in play with some of the examples above (the Takahashi made me think of this), maybe taking them further from paint splatter day glo into pastels and bits of geometric flair, is the Fifties revival closely associated with a more arch/ironic postmodernism, especially in furniture, industrial design, and interiors. Thinking here of Alessandro Mendini and/or Memphis Group, but in a way would also include the camp of John Waters or the B-52's. Pee Wee's Playhouse, too. All great IMO and in some cases excitingly transgressive but sometimes it's just rich people buying tacky shit because their designer said so. Anyway just seems like kind of a different track even though both definitely scream 80s.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Memphis Group furniture:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Memphis-Milano_Design_Collection.jpg
Coop Himmelb(l)au (no, really!) in this era, with Mendini overseeing:
http://bolidtbooster.com/uploads/mendini1.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/13/A70-6729
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Esprit: never forget.
http://gravelandgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Esprit-kids.jpg
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking of Pee Wee's Playhouse too (iirc his kitchen Big Adventure is along these lines too?). Such a fun and interesting backdrop to take in as a kid while watching. Still reads as FRESH and MODERN to me after all this time, even while simultaneously retro/nostalgic.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:50 (nine years ago) link
http://img7.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/19056/190569176537b54c54a03c9f5ef34eb6028df323.jpg
"Southland Tales" belongs in this thread, I think.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
(And now that I've made this claim I can't find a single image to support it. Nevermind.)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:46 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
true
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
I have a book on 80s fashion which includes this great Stephen Sprouse picture from 1984, but unfortunately I can't find it online in a proper size. It looks better in the book:
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/87/0b/1d/870b1d2fdaf63668817c74098688d248.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10690184_10152347840762688_5124805141478931697_n.jpg?oh=c69ba2f60511c636ddf8b305654676dc&oe=552600C0
― nickn, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
ha ha
never seen Pee-Wee's Playhouse but the sets were designed by Gary Panter
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IDNAZMKvL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1366990953l/635842.jpg
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/images/e/e0/Studio_Tan.jpg
http://www.reglarwiglar.com/comicartists/comicjpgs/Panter/panterasshole.jpg
http://michelfiffe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RCHP2.jpg
http://www.spd.org/images/blog/gp.jpg
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:08 (nine years ago) link
So my question is what is the NAME for this style? Very often I've wanted to describe something by saying, well, that it looked exactly like that Malibu Musk packaging or the frame around Elton John's "Jump Up!" sleeve. Pastel colors, unmoored geometric figures, squiggles. How to specify this in a few words?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
loving this thread more that I can say. wish I still owned some clothes from this era, brands like Genarra & Williwear. 1984/85 was when I saw the light and started wearing colorful duds instead of regulation east village hipster all-black.
― in-house pickle program (m coleman), Thursday, 22 January 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
maybe relevant:
http://zone7style.blogspot.com/
https://printarchive.wordpress.com/
like i feel there might be an overlap of different aesthetics; some of the prints on the print archive site seem to be too rococo for this vibe.
― slugbuggy, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vinyl-minded.com/shop/images/8/885675.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 7 February 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/dd/03/02f3228348a0c00e0dd2e010.L.jpg
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Saturday, 7 February 2015 03:00 (nine years ago) link
This shirt:
http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/headline/public/2014/08/12/0812robinwilliamsnw.jpg?itok=sy47-DWe
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Saturday, 7 February 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
how did I miss this thread
when I was 12 I came *this* close to owning a pair of blue and white vertical stripe (wide stripes) painter's overalls, complete with suspender straps -- baggy fit with rolled cuffs
mum nixed them because they had a tiny hole in them but I didn't caaaaaaaaaaaaaare I wanted them so much
I still dream about them. I had a fluoro yellow tshirt and crazy pink socks that would have looked SO rad with them, *sigh*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 February 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
This is pretty rad. 70 minutes of Haring's 1983 New Year's Eve party. I'm not sure if this is his studio. The downstairs space is completely squiggled-up and looks awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJiiW89It_U
I recommend checking out the rest of this channel also. It's delightful.
― jmm, Monday, 3 October 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Bob_Dylan_-_Empire_Burlesque.jpg
― MatthewK, Monday, 3 October 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link
I've been watching Pee Wee's Playhouse a lot in the past couple of days because my (almost) 2 year old is mesmerized by it and my wife was out of town for a couple of days and a lot of it fits in here but other aspects don't that much, there's definitely a retro 1950s interpretation to a lot of it.
Also the Mondrian mention above made me think of this which I had completely forgotten about:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n_sG2WNGnA
― joygoat, Monday, 3 October 2016 06:20 (seven years ago) link
This thread is great, I can't believe I've only just found it. I was born in 1981 so I've got a lot of half-buried memories of this stuff and I'm sure I had at least one pair of bermuda shorts with this sort of design on them. That Memphis Group furniture picture though... Wow!
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 3 October 2016 10:43 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWASsbSwWk
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/ikea-collections/spridd/index.html
― Wes Brodicus, Sunday, 18 December 2016 11:13 (seven years ago) link
I like how BTTF2 anticipated ironic eighties revivalism, even if it got everything other prediction wrong.
http://www.gqmagazine.fr/uploads/images/201543/66/retour_vers_le_futur_ii___mythe_ou_r__alit_____1484.png
Seems like a lot of this design aesthetic carried on into the early 90s.
http://cdn3.artofthetitle.com/assets/sm/upload/pq/ry/60/2h/sbtb_c.jpghttps://assets.vg247.com/current//2015/02/toejam-and-earl.jpg
― Pheeel, Sunday, 18 December 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
http://www.liketotally80s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/feathered-bangs-loreal.jpg
One whiff of the smell of this hairspray and I'm in 1986 in an instant.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
That Ikea ad Wes Brodicus posted is pretty on-point, with the only goof being the handling of the overlaid graphics (the floating exclamation points, etc.) which are far too flat and stable, like something made in Illustrator. The old-school form of those, I think, would be in wobbley hand-drawn animation, jittering from frame to frame.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
Pardon me while I go buy some frusen gladje
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
http://acmestudio.com/acme_legacy/
― it wipes its face with nowness (doo dah), Monday, 19 December 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link