Factory Pomo vs Memphis
ファクトリー・ポモ / メンフィス
Factory Pomo comes from Industrial and Spatial Design and Memphis from Pop. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Factory Pomo
A brief late-1980s and early-1990s postmodern style that reassembled factory safety graphics, WPA, Constructivism, and Bauhaus through smooth CAD geometry and Memphis quotation. Industrial signs become bright information-age stage sets rather than preserved relics.
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Laughs off functionalism and enjoys the dissonance of shape and color.
| Factory Pomo | Memphis | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | late 1980s–early 1990s | 1980s |
| Family | Industrial and Spatial Design | Pop |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Gears, bolts, beams, and arrows reduced to geometry / Black and safety yellow expanded with red, blue, and turquoise / CAD-perfect circles and diagonals over old factory lettering / Exposed structure converted into decorative repetition | Zigzags / Small figures / Pastel plus primary / Speckles |
| Best used for | Turning factory signs into optimistic information-age symbols in retail or exhibitions · Showing early CAD’s influence across furniture, signage, and print | Softening a stiff subject · A young, sunny personality |
| Type | Combine stencil and geometric type; use numbers and arrows as structural lines. | A chunky geometric sans |
| Composition | Build on horizontal and vertical beams, then collide one circle with one 45-degree line. | Scatter small motifs, anchor with one large shape |
| Material | Finish painted steel, perforated metal, rubber, and plywood in clean bright spot colors. | Pink, yellow, teal, black speckles |
| Caution | Rust and bare bulbs drift into later industrial interiors. Factory Pomo updates industrial quotation through bright CAD geometry and postmodern color. | Don't stop at background pattern. Map the figures to navigation and units of meaning. |