that 1985 paint splatter/Keith Haring squiggle-art/polka dot/loud color street style

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?

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.

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.

http://www.vinyl-minded.com/shop/images/8/885675.jpg

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/dd/03/02f3228348a0c00e0dd2e010.L.jpg

This shirt:

http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/headline/public/2014/08/12/0812robinwilliamsnw.jpg?itok=sy47-DWe

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*

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.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Bob_Dylan_-_Empire_Burlesque.jpg

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

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWASsbSwWk

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/ikea-collections/spridd/index.html

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.jpg
https://assets.vg247.com/current//2015/02/toejam-and-earl.jpg

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.

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.

Pardon me while I go buy some frusen gladje

http://acmestudio.com/acme_legacy/