Totally Radical: Designing the 1980s #BehindTheScenes

📢Want to know how GMD staff prepare for an exhibition? Check out this video -- GMD staff worked for the exhibition "Totally Radical: Designing the 1980s"! GMD explores the variety of 1980s design through the exhibition "Totally Radical: Designing the 1980s". Some might recall the 1980s design as big hair, bright colors, Rubik’s Cubes, corporate ladders, Atari consoles, MTV, and Hip Hop. However, there are various other frames of reference and design movement for the 1980s, making “the look” of the era more idiosyncratic than one initially thinks -- from Retro-Futurism to Deconstructing Design. For those who find themselves “nostalgia merchants” and those who want to further see the world through our experiences, Totally Radical: Designing the 1980s allows you to reconsider our collective understanding of this era and explore a nuanced version of the past times. In addition to GMD collection objects, the exhibition also features photographs and print material from UMN Archives and the Minnesota Historical Society. Come and see objects ranging from tracksuits to Hmong embroidery, as we explore the “undefining” of a decade! December 4, 2021 – May 27, 2022. Gallery 241, McNeal Hall. ✓ More info on Totally Radical: Designing the 1980s ☞ https://design.umn.edu/research/goldstein-museum-design/exhibitions/totally-radical-designing-1980s ✓ Visit our website to explore more objects online! ☞ https://design.umn.edu/goldstein-museum-design ✓ COVID Safety Guidelines The University