Shadowing Practice: The origin of the '80s aesthetic - Learn English Speaking with Video
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If we were to make a mood board for each decade, it would probably look something like this, right?
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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.
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This is my favorite, the 80s.
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And minus the questionable hairstyles, the 80s set the trend for bright colors, graphic patterns, and geometric shapes.
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Which made me wonder, who created the look of the 80s?
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Is it even possible to point to a specific person or a moment in time?
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Well, in this case, we can.
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I think you'd be hard -pressed to think of any other design phenomenon
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that could be located as specifically to a group of people.
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The Memphis group dominated the design world in the 80s.
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The collective, led by Italian architect Ettore Satzes, came together in 1981.
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They had a huge impact on the postmodern designs of the decade.
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Memphis is probably as influential a design group as there has ever been.
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And they did originate a lot of that visual vocabulary.
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So I give them a lot of credit for the look of the 80s for sure.
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Although the majority were Italians, the group had architects and designers from all around the world.
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Japan, France, Britain, Austria, America.
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And unlike the name, the group wasn't from Tennessee.
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They were actually based in Milan, Italy.
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The name Memphis came from a Bob Dylan song that was playing during a meeting.
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First thing to know about Memphis is
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that it comes out of a long tradition of radical design in Italy in the 1960s.
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Radical design was a movement formed by architects in reaction to the minimal and practical aesthetics of modernism.
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Modernism was put into some kind of box
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and we gave it a lot of rules which I think a lot of people felt trapped within these rules.
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Radical design allowed designers to express distortion and irony, moving far away from functionality of design.
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Satsas was a big proponent of the movement.
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According to The Guardian, he tried to stay away from the modernist way of designing, like a well -educated schoolboy.
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He didn't follow the rules, which made the Memphis group's work unpredictable.
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We wanted to be excited.
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We wanted to be anxious.
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We wanted to be thrilled.
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This is Peter Shire, one of two Americans who were part of the Memphis group.
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We were doing it mechanically because we didn't have the computers.
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They existed.
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We were seeing signs of it.
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And you look at that kind of overlay, look at Memphis, you know, pattern on pattern, with stuff flying out.
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In 1981, the group showed their work for the first time at the Milan Design Fair.
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The entire collection was named after luxury hotels.
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Carlton, the Bel Air chair that Peter Shire did, the Plaza Vanity that Michael Graves did, which is like a joke,
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right, about taking plastic laminates and putting it on cheap composition wood and then naming it after luxury hotels.
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It's all part of this sort of faux chic thing that they were interested in.
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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.
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Sotsass and one of the other designers were on their way to the opening in a taxi
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and they thought that a terrorist bomb had gone off in downtown Milan.
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They realized gradually that the chaos and crowding was actually because of their own exhibition.
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They got out and walked and it was like mob scene.
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Their work spread quickly through design magazines that were popular at the time and soon enough you saw their influence everywhere.
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I always think it's really important that it happened virtually simultaneously with MTV, which also launched in 1981.
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And if you think about like the logo of MTV with all those colors and patterns and the kind of scratchy graphics,
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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.
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But despite the impact that the group had, their furniture never quite made it into people's homes.
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It was very, very unusual to decorate with Memphis at that time.
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There's only one single piece of furniture from Memphis that was ever mass -produced, and that's the first chair.
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I think about 3 ,000 of those are made.
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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.
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Which was a brilliant idea and a terrible chair.
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But the trouble is they always fell over backwards.
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Yeah, it's really funny.
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A few years later, Satsas left the group to build his own studio, and the Memphis group held their last show in 1987.
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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,
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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.
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The life of the Memphis group was short -lived — six years, to be exact.
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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.
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Like this first Apple Watch, which was created in 1995.
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They were given out for free to anyone who bought the Mac system.
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Or this 2011 Dior Couture show, which was an ode to Memphis design.
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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.
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The designs have a distinctive look that continues to come up time and time again.
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And that's how design works sometimes.
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It often spreads around the world without the designer's names attached.
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So even if you recognize this look as the look of the 80s, most people probably have never heard of Memphis at all.
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I should ask somebody.
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I should ask the man on the street.
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Most people would go, what?
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De situatie: Een diepgaande uitleg over '80s-aesthetiek
In de video wordt de oorsprong van de kenmerkende '80s-stijl onderzocht, met name de invloed van de Memphis Group. Deze context biedt een prachtige kans om Engels te leren met video's, omdat het een mix van gesproken taal, culturele referenties en technische termen bevat. Het gesprek is analytisch maar toegankelijk, wat het ideaal maakt voor het oefenen van luisteren en spreken.
Nuttige chunks en collocaties
- Set the trend for: "De '80s zetten de trend voor heldere kleuren." Gebruik deze om te beschrijven hoe iets een nieuwe richting geeft.
- Have a huge impact on: "De Memphis Group had een grote impact op postmoderne ontwerpen." Handig voor het uiten van invloed.
- Move far away from: "Radical design bewoog zich ver van functionaliteit." Nuttig om contrast te maken tussen stijlen.
- Spread quickly through: "Hun werk verspreidde zich snel via designmagazines." Gebruik dit voor het beschrijven van snelle verspreiding.
- Put everyone in a state of high excitement: "De tentoonstelling bracht iedereen in een staat van grote opwinding." Een expressieve manier om reacties te beschrijven.
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Schaduw spreken is een effectieve methode om je spreekvaardigheid te verbeteren, vooral voor examens als IELTS. Kies een 30-seconden fragment van de video waarin Glenn of Peter praat. Herhaal het fragment meerdere keren, en probeer tegelijkertijd mee te spreken: kopieer de intonatie, de tempo en de klinkers. Let op woorden als "postmodern" en "geometric shapes" – zorg dat je ze helder uitspreekt. Gebruik een shadowing site om je voortgang te volgen, of neem jezelf op om te controleren of je de timing goed raakt. Deze oefening helpt je niet alleen met je uitspraak, maar ook met het begrijpen van natuurlijke spreektaal. Probeer het nu – je zult snel merken dat je meer zelfvertrouwen krijgt in het spreken van Engels!
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | could be located · were actually based · was put |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | did, which is · Watch, which was · anyone who bought |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has ever been · have never heard |
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
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