Rad to the Max

As a child of the '80s, I'm quite familiar with the amazing styling of The Max* on  Saved by the Bell, but I wasn't aware until today, who was responsible for this style movement. 


Italian designer Ettore Sottsass started the Memphis Group in 1981. The group took inspiration from Pop Art, Art deco, Kitsch, and futuristic items and throughout the '80s they designed Post-Modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics and sculpture. The Memphis Art Movement is known as a  colorful, eccentric and vibrant style of furniture design 

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The group designed radical one-off designs with unconventional shapes, brightly-colored and patterned surfaces with an apparent disregard for function. They shook up ‘modern’ design of the time and what they created became a ‘Post-Modernism’ movement.

Addition: Check out this Slovanian-based Kitsch-Nitsch salon. Doesn't get much more Saved by the Bell than that!

*The Max is a restaurant and local hangout for the students at Bayside High School. It remains their hangout through the second series, Saved by the Bell: The New Class, though it burns down in one episode and is rebuilt with a new look. 

POW! from Emma Hack

Body Artist, Emma Hack is getting a bit of love today, as I stumbled across her Pop! Art Body Sculptures on both HiConsumption and Cool Material today.

I love, love, love these for their subject matter, Pop Art qualities and vibrancy. I love how the ladies become an extension of the background. Oh, and oops, did you notice these chics are naked?

But I already loved Emma Hack, I just didn't know it! She's the artist behind the much adored, amazing Gotye and Kimbra video for Somebody that I Used to Know. This sound was seriously on single song loop at my house for weeks!

 The Austrailian artist is most know for her work blending figures into patterned wallpapers, in a fashion that reminds me a bit of OKGo.

But before moving on, make sure you watch the behind the scenes video for one of her more recent projects, Body Crash.

Love Hack's work for the simplicity, organic beauty and originality.