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      "text": "Memphis was a Milan design collective led by Ettore Sottsass, which dissolved officially in 1988, that made furniture, lighting, textiles, ceramics and glass whose surfaces carried designer-drawn patterns printed on plastic laminate and fabric in flamboyant, clashing colour; this record takes that decorated-surface register of pattern and colour into flat graphic use, and that lifting of the decoration off the objects is Aesthetary's reading."
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      "text": "Memphis's printed identity (catalogues, posters, the coordinated image) was designed by the graphic designer Christoph Radl, who met Sottsass in the 1980s.",
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      "text": "Radl says that in Memphis the graphics were decorative, like the famous laminates designed by Sottsass, De Lucchi or himself.",
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      "text": "Memphis has a following among present-day type designers; for example, the decorative caps typeface Memphis (2014) is inspired by Memphis furniture. Such faces are later designs, not Memphis-era letterforms.",
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      "text": "Memphis colour was loud and combined against expectation: sources describe flamboyant colour, daring combinations and clashing pairings such as acid yellow against violent pink.",
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      "text": "Saturated primaries and pastels both occur in documented pieces: primary-coloured collars on Bedin's Super Lamp, red upholstery on yellow or blue legs on Sowden's Oberoi, and pastel ropes on Umeda's Tawaraya.",
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      "text": "No fixed palette is documented. Named pieces run from red/black/white to mustard/rust/black/blue, and the Design Museum account records that no-one mentioned forms, colours, styles or decorations.",
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      "text": "Du Pasquier rejects reading the bright colour as childish or the patterns as a joke.",
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      "text": "Sottsass's Bacterio abstracted the surface of a Buddhist temple in Madurai into a field of black squiggles.",
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      "text": "The speckled effect is a printed surface decoration taken from 1950s laminate patterns; Abet also says its patterns derive from everyday materials including terrazzo.",
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      "text": "Surface was a deliberate concept, the 'decorated surface': changing an object's surface changes its meaning.",
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      "text": "Beyond laminate, the collections used printed glass, celluloid, fireflake finishes, glitter and zinc-plated metal alongside real materials such as terrazzo and briar.",
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      "text": "Patterns were drawn as flat compositions; sometimes they were printed on textile or on paper for laminate.",
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      "text": "One account says there were no construction drawings, no models, no developments; almost no Memphis object was ever manufactured in series.",
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        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Treat the graphics as decoration, like the laminates.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:typography-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "The sources do not specify a Memphis-era letterform or typeface.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:typography-3"
            ],
            "guidance": "Lettering is an open question. Do not use the decorative Memphis typeface (2014) as if it were period; it is a later design.",
            "silence": "source"
          },
          {
            "rule": "Archivo Black for display and Archivo for text.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:typography-2"
            ],
            "because": "A plain heavy grotesque leaves the pattern to carry the decoration, which is where the research puts it."
          }
        ]
      },
      "gridLayout": {
        "summary": "Objects on a floor: each block placed with its own offset and angle, the reading order intact. The sources do not specify a grid.",
        "tokens": {
          "gap": "48px 24px",
          "offset": "24–70px",
          "tilt": "-1deg"
        },
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Let no element in the composition subordinate another.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "token_rule:me-r2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Some pieces organise around a centre, with elements projecting from a central totem.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:w2-hierarchy-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Make objects totemic and isolated, each standing on its own.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:hierarchy-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Place blocks on the page like objects in a room, each with its own offset, keeping the reading order.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:hierarchy-1",
              "token_rule:me-r2"
            ],
            "because": "Totemic, isolated objects; the graphic register borrows their placement, and the reader still needs an order."
          }
        ]
      },
      "shapeGeometry": {
        "tokens": {
          "radius": "one corner per object",
          "edge": "4px solid #191512",
          "cap": "14px pattern strip"
        },
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Give each block one corner of its own: a quarter circle, an arch, a square.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:density-2"
            ],
            "because": "Signs and forms were multiplied and paired rather than reduced; the corners disagree on purpose."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Form is not specified by the source.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
            "cites": [],
            "guidance": "Three-dimensional form belongs to the objects; do not claim these corners as Memphis form.",
            "silence": "source"
          }
        ]
      },
      "imagery": {
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Use kitsch geometric and animal-skin patterns borrowed from popular sources, not pictures.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-1"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "A field of black squiggles abstracted from a real surface is a signature pattern.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-2"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Select and pair signs, forms, colours and patterns from the catalogues of history and modernity.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-3"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Keep figurative illustration to printed ephemera such as invitations.",
            "basis": "record",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:imagery-4"
            ]
          },
          {
            "rule": "Draw patterns as flat, tiling CSS or SVG fills.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:technique-1"
            ],
            "because": "Patterns were drawn as flat compositions for print on laminate or textile."
          }
        ]
      },
      "components": {
        "button": {
          "name": "Button",
          "becomes": "A small object: a lemon block with an ink edge, one rounded corner, and a patterned strip along its foot.",
          "anatomy": [
            "lemon field",
            "3px ink edge",
            "one corner rounded, three square",
            "label in Archivo Black",
            "chequer strip along the foot"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "background": "#FFD94A",
            "color": "#191512",
            "border": "3px solid #191512",
            "radius": "0 0 18px 0",
            "foot": "chequer 8px"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Lemon block, chequer foot.",
            "hover": "The field swaps to mint: the surface changes, the form does not.",
            "focus": "4px blue outline, 3px outside.",
            "active": "The field swaps to coral.",
            "disabled": "Paper field, dashed edge, no pattern."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "Ink on lemon at 13.2:1, on mint 12.9:1, on coral 7.2:1.",
            "The strip is decoration.",
            "At least 44px tall."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Change the button's surface on interaction, never its shape.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:surface-3",
                "token_rule:me-r1"
              ],
              "because": "Surface was the concept: changing an object's surface changes its meaning, and the pattern is applied independently of the form."
            }
          ]
        },
        "card": {
          "name": "Card",
          "becomes": "A piece of furniture on the floor: a paper block with its own corner and a patterned cap or legs that have nothing to do with its content.",
          "anatomy": [
            "paper field",
            "4px ink edge",
            "a corner of its own",
            "patterned cap (zigzag, squiggle, dots) or legs",
            "heading in Archivo Black"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "background": "#FFF7EA",
            "border": "4px solid #191512",
            "radius": "one corner, 40–90px",
            "cap": "14px pattern strip"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Paper block, patterned cap.",
            "hover": "The cap's pattern swaps for another.",
            "focus": "4px blue outline."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "Ink on paper at 17.1:1.",
            "Pattern sits in the cap and legs, never under text.",
            "The whole card is one link."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Apply pattern to a surface independently of the form beneath it.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:me-r1"
              ],
              "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Give each card its own corner and cap rather than one shared style.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:density-2"
              ],
              "because": "Signs, forms, colours and patterns were multiplied and paired rather than reduced."
            }
          ]
        },
        "input": {
          "name": "Input",
          "becomes": "A plain paper field with an ink edge; the decoration stays on the object around it, not in the box you type in.",
          "anatomy": [
            "3px ink edge",
            "paper field",
            "label above in Archivo, bold",
            "error as a line of ink text with a red wavy underline"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "border": "3px solid #191512",
            "background": "#FFF7EA",
            "radius": "0",
            "height": "2.75rem"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "3px ink edge.",
            "focus": "4px blue outline.",
            "error": "Ink text beginning \"Error:\", underlined with a red wave.",
            "disabled": "Dashed edge."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "The label is real text above the field.",
            "Error is words, not colour alone."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Forms are not researched yet: the collective's output was objects and printed ephemera, not screens.",
              "basis": "not_recorded",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:interface-1"
              ],
              "guidance": "Keep the field plain; put pattern on the surface around it.",
              "silence": "source"
            }
          ]
        },
        "navigation": {
          "name": "Navigation",
          "becomes": "A row of tiles that do not agree on colour, corner or angle; the current one is ink with lemon text.",
          "anatomy": [
            "tiles in mint, coral, lemon, blue",
            "each its own corner and a small tilt",
            "current tile ink, label lemon"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "tiles": "#A8E6CE #FF7B6B #FFD94A #2456E6",
            "current": "#191512",
            "current-text": "#FFD94A",
            "tilt": "-3deg to 3deg"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Each tile its own ground and corner.",
            "hover": "Red wavy underline.",
            "focus": "4px blue outline.",
            "current": "Ink tile, lemon label (13.2:1), aria-current."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "aria-current on the current page.",
            "Ink on mint, coral and lemon; paper on blue at 5.6:1.",
            "The current tile differs in ground and in label colour."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Let no element subordinate another.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:me-r2"
              ],
              "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Set each link as a tile with its own colour and corner.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:me-r2"
              ],
              "because": "No element subordinates another; a row of tiles that disagree keeps them equal."
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "motion": {
        "spec": null,
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Motion in the sources is physical: objects dismantled and transformed, not animation.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:motion-1"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "Do not animate. State changes are instant swaps of surface.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:kcc:motion-1",
              "claim:kcc:surface-3"
            ],
            "because": "The only recorded movement is physical, and surface change is the documented concept."
          }
        ]
      },
      "dimensions": [
        {
          "key": "surface",
          "label": "The decorated surface",
          "summary": "The best-documented thing about Memphis: pattern printed on plastic laminate, drawn by the designers, applied regardless of the form it covers.",
          "tokens": {
            "speckle": "printed laminate speckle",
            "laminate": "Abet Laminati"
          },
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Print decorative pattern on laminate, decorated by the designers themselves.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:surface-1"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Treat the speckle as a printed pattern from 1950s laminates, some derived from materials such as terrazzo.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:surface-2"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Change the surface to change the meaning.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:surface-3"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Apply a pattern fill to any block regardless of what the block holds.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:me-r1"
              ],
              "because": "The pattern does not describe the object it covers."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Real materials (terrazzo, briar, glitter, zinc) do not transfer to the screen.",
              "basis": "not_recorded",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:surface-4"
              ],
              "guidance": "Only the printed pattern moves to flat graphics; do not fake material with textures.",
              "silence": "source"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "notRecorded": [
        {
          "category": "color",
          "what": "A fixed palette",
          "why": "No fixed palette is documented; named pieces run from red/black/white to mustard/rust/black/blue. Mint, coral and lemon are this page's."
        },
        {
          "category": "typography",
          "what": "Memphis-era letterforms",
          "why": "An open question. Radl designed the printed identity; the sources name no typeface. The 2014 Memphis typeface is a later design."
        },
        {
          "category": "shapeGeometry",
          "what": "Form",
          "why": "Not specified by the source for the graphic register."
        },
        {
          "category": "components",
          "what": "Interface conventions",
          "why": "The collective did no screen or interactive work. The four components are contemporary translations of documented rules."
        },
        {
          "category": "motion",
          "what": "Screen motion",
          "why": "The only movement recorded is physical."
        }
      ],
      "silence": {
        "color": "source",
        "typography": "source",
        "gridLayout": "source",
        "shapeGeometry": "source",
        "imagery": "source",
        "components": "source",
        "motion": "source"
      }
    }
  }
}