Factory Pomo
ファクトリー・ポモ / late 1980s–early 1990s / Style / Industrial and Spatial Design
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.
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
Dictionary entry
- 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
- Type
- Combine stencil and geometric type; use numbers and arrows as structural lines.
- Composition
- Build on horizontal and vertical beams, then collide one circle with one 45-degree line.
- Material
- Finish painted steel, perforated metal, rubber, and plywood in clean bright spot colors.
- Caution
- Rust and bare bulbs drift into later industrial interiors. Factory Pomo updates industrial quotation through bright CAD geometry and postmodern color.
- Further study
- late-1980s information-age interiors / industrial vernacular and postmodern quotation / early CAD geometry
Related entries
- Memphis (メンフィス)Shared effects: Play.Compare Factory Pomo and Memphis
- Corporate Cyberspace (コーポレート・サイバースペース)Shared effects: Futurity / Technique.Compare Factory Pomo and Corporate Cyberspace
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