A span of years within a decade where we feel this aesthetic was most relevant. These years are usually given Early/Mid/Late modifiers, roughly corresponding to the beginning, middle, or end of a decade:

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Factory Pomo

Namesake: Pending Research

A design aesthetic that coalesced in the late 1980s, merging the clean, simple, referential forms of Memphis-Milano, new visual languages emerging from the CAD technology boom, and revivals of Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, WPA graphics, and general industrial vernacular from the 1900s-1940s.

Links

  1. Are.na - https://www.are.na/consumer-aesthetics-research-institute/factory-pomo-trcoi9fkoaa
  2. Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/551105478611349
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A deep dive into "Factory Pomo", a short-lived style in the 1980s and 1990s associated with the transition into the Information Age and the integration of personal computing into our everyday lives.
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