How these funny pictures quietly took over the marketing arena

A story about the history of the ubiquitous corporate memphis illustrations and why they are now on literally every website.





Flat human figures with bent arms and legs, clothes of bright colors, facial features are no more expressive than a silhouette, and if there is any expression, it is necessarily a smile.





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