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If we were to make a mood board for each decade, it would probably look something like this, right?

Even if we didn't live through the 50s, 60s, and the 70s, we can pretty much agree on the defining look of the time.

This is my favorite, the 80s.

And minus the questionable hairstyles, the 80s set the trend for bright colors, graphic patterns, and geometric shapes.

Which made me wonder, who created the look of the 80s?

Is it even possible to point to a specific person or a moment in time?

Well, in this case, we can.

I think you'd be hard -pressed to think of any other design phenomenon

that could be located as specifically to a group of people.

The Memphis group dominated the design world in the 80s.

The collective, led by Italian architect Ettore Satzes, came together in 1981.

They had a huge impact on the postmodern designs of the decade.

Memphis is probably as influential a design group as there has ever been.

And they did originate a lot of that visual vocabulary.

So I give them a lot of credit for the look of the 80s for sure.

Although the majority were Italians, the group had architects and designers from all around the world.

Japan, France, Britain, Austria, America.

And unlike the name, the group wasn't from Tennessee.

They were actually based in Milan, Italy.

The name Memphis came from a Bob Dylan song that was playing during a meeting.

First thing to know about Memphis is

that it comes out of a long tradition of radical design in Italy in the 1960s.

Radical design was a movement formed by architects in reaction to the minimal and practical aesthetics of modernism.

Modernism was put into some kind of box

and we gave it a lot of rules which I think a lot of people felt trapped within these rules.

Radical design allowed designers to express distortion and irony, moving far away from functionality of design.

Satsas was a big proponent of the movement.

According to The Guardian, he tried to stay away from the modernist way of designing, like a well -educated schoolboy.

He didn't follow the rules, which made the Memphis group's work unpredictable.

We wanted to be excited.

We wanted to be anxious.

We wanted to be thrilled.

This is Peter Shire, one of two Americans who were part of the Memphis group.

We were doing it mechanically because we didn't have the computers.

They existed.

We were seeing signs of it.

And you look at that kind of overlay, look at Memphis, you know, pattern on pattern, with stuff flying out.

In 1981, the group showed their work for the first time at the Milan Design Fair.

The entire collection was named after luxury hotels.

Carlton, the Bel Air chair that Peter Shire did, the Plaza Vanity that Michael Graves did, which is like a joke,

right, about taking plastic laminates and putting it on cheap composition wood and then naming it after luxury hotels.

It's all part of this sort of faux chic thing that they were interested in.

The New York Times wrote that the show appalled some and amused others, but put everyone attending the fair in a state of high excitement.

Sotsass and one of the other designers were on their way to the opening in a taxi

and they thought that a terrorist bomb had gone off in downtown Milan.

They realized gradually that the chaos and crowding was actually because of their own exhibition.

They got out and walked and it was like mob scene.

Their work spread quickly through design magazines that were popular at the time and soon enough you saw their influence everywhere.

I always think it's really important that it happened virtually simultaneously with MTV, which also launched in 1981.

And if you think about like the logo of MTV with all those colors and patterns and the kind of scratchy graphics,

clearly relates very closely to some of the graphic design ideas that were coming out of Italy that were, you know, the context in which Memphis emerged.

But despite the impact that the group had, their furniture never quite made it into people's homes.

It was very, very unusual to decorate with Memphis at that time.

There's only one single piece of furniture from Memphis that was ever mass -produced, and that's the first chair.

I think about 3 ,000 of those are made.

With a circular disc at the back and two black orbs to rest your arms, the design was unlike any other chair on the market in 1983.

Which was a brilliant idea and a terrible chair.

But the trouble is they always fell over backwards.

Yeah, it's really funny.

A few years later, Satsas left the group to build his own studio, and the Memphis group held their last show in 1987.

Whenever people would say to me, what's the sort of ending of the postmodern period, I would say more or less it is around 1987,

because there's a recession then that kind of takes some of the air out of the art market, and it's like a real turning point.

The life of the Memphis group was short -lived — six years, to be exact.

And even though their designs failed to serve a function in people's homes, they left a colorful mark in history and inspired many designers to come.

Like this first Apple Watch, which was created in 1995.

They were given out for free to anyone who bought the Mac system.

Or this 2011 Dior Couture show, which was an ode to Memphis design.

Karl Lagerfeld was among the few who collected their pieces and Sotheby's auction out sold David Bowie's Memphis collection last year, which also included Peter's work.

The designs have a distinctive look that continues to come up time and time again.

And that's how design works sometimes.

It often spreads around the world without the designer's names attached.

So even if you recognize this look as the look of the 80s, most people probably have never heard of Memphis at all.

I should ask somebody.

I should ask the man on the street.

Most people would go, what?

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80年代の美学の起源について語るこの動画は、英語シャドーイングに最適な教材です。専門用語や議論的な表現が豊富で、日常会話だけでなくデザインや文化について話す際のコンテキストを学べます。shadowspeakの練習に使えば、流暢さと語彙力が同時に向上し、「誰が80年代のルックを作ったのか」といった質問に答える際の論理的な話し方も身につきます。動画で英語学習をするメリットは、リアルな発音とイントネーションを模倣できることです。

文脈の中の文法と表現

「If we were to make a mood board...」：仮定法過去の用法。「もし～したら」という仮定の場面で使われ、話者の想像を表します。シャドーイングでこの構造を覚えると、仮説的な意見を述べる際に自信がつきます。
「Which made me wonder...」：関係代名詞whichによる非制限的用法。前文の内容を受けて「それが私に～と思わせた」という繋がりを表し、文章をスムーズに展開します。
「It's all part of this faux-chic thing that they were interested in.」：「all part of...」で「～の一部である」という表現。「faux-chic」のような合成語も含まれ、デザインに関する独特な用語を覚えることができます。

発音の注意点

この動画には発音が難しい単語がいくつかあります。Memphis（メンフィス）は「メンフィス」と発音し、末尾の「s」は軽く発音します。Ettore Sottsass（エットーレ・ソッタッサ）はイタリア語の名前で、「エットーレ」の「レ」は伸ばさず、「ソッタッサ」の「ッ」は促音です。また、shadowing siteで練習する際は、「architects and designers」のような連続する単語のつなぎを注意して模倣しましょう。イントネーションも重要で、「appalled some and amused others」のような対比的な表現では、語調を上げ下げして感情を表現します。

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話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	could be located · were actually based · was put
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	did, which is · Watch, which was · anyone who bought
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has ever been · have never heard

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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