rubix cube, sweets, big cell phones, technology, bad technology, space invaders, pacman, video games, atari, music, hip-hop, breakdancing, cocaine, PC, first mac, big, chunky, colourful, plastic, sixteen candles, speak and spell, michael jackson, bad haircuts, graffitti, pogo balls, cabbage patch kids, star wars toys, cassette tapes, neon, disco, footloose, drugs, the goonies, electro, only fools and horses
This is what I would consider a simpler and easily achievable idea. Taking elements of eighties culture and using them as props within our workspace to create a minimalistic yet effectively themed space.
To make items like rubix cube, using stencils to make space invaders or pacman imagery. I felt it could create a platform, for a fun, quirky yet creatively designed space. a strong use of colour, materials, music and fabric from the era. The 80's is a vast period of varying styles with a wide platform to ultilise. The above brainstorming is simply what my memory serves up as fondness. There is a melting pot of 80's to dip into.
Traditional Sweets and Toys could be used and the eighties was essentially the birth of mainstream computer technology with the introduction of the PC and the birth of video game development (areas of interest throughout all our pathway's.)
I love this idea! The 80's was charged of a very vibrant use of colour and also with very iconic visual elements and graphics. But when using this kind of graphics you should be aware of size, frequency and weight this will have in your final display of work. Be sure not to give these elements priority and use them as a support for your exhibition and website. Good idea anyway. A look at Post Modernism books might give you an idea of how to apply all these visuals in objects, displays and even fashion.
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