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2031-02-14
The 1950s Pastel Problem: Why Atomic Age Colors Feel Simultaneously Optimistic and Menacing
Mint refrigerators, coral diners, butter yellow Chevrolets — the 1950s pastel palette is the most legible era in American design history. But underneath the optimism was the atomic age's specific anxiety. The colors that made the decade are inseparable from what the decade feared.
Color History1950sDesign Movements
2031-02-21
Miami Vice vs. Memphis: Two Incompatible 1980s Palettes, One Decade
The 1980s are remembered for neon, but Miami Vice's pastel-against-dark was a completely different palette from Memphis Design's primary-on-pattern. How did these two aesthetics coexist, why do they both read as 'the 1980s,' and what does that tell us about color trend cohesion?
Color History1980sDesign MovementsNeon
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