Style combination · Contrasts

Minimalist Graphic Design × Neo-Andean Architecture

Its exact opposite on ornament and colour; one symmetrical fluorescent panel in a white, empty layout reads as a loud statement of identity.

From the research on Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets)

Mix them and make something Minimalist Graphic Design Neo-Andean Architecture

A symmetrical, multistorey building facade has dark teal glass windows surrounded by vivid pink, yellow, orange and turquoise stepped bands, zigzags and diamond motifs. Widely spaced dark teal capitals read “PUEBLO ALTO” above the building on an off-white background. — AI-generated by Stylogeny from the recipe below, and checked against it: the type from Minimalist Graphic Design, the form from Neo-Andean Architecture, the composition from Minimalist Graphic Design. Not a real or historical work.

What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Minimalist Graphic Design Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets)

Type from Minimalist Graphic Design: Grotesque & neo-grotesque
Wide letterspacing
Colour from Neo-Andean Architecture: Full polychrome
Fluorescent & neon

Minimalist Graphic Design avoids full polychrome and fluorescent & neon: this is where the two pull against each other, which is the point of the contrast.
Form from Neo-Andean Architecture: Angular & zigzag
Abundant decoration

Minimalist Graphic Design avoids abundant decoration: this is where the two pull against each other, which is the point of the contrast.
Composition from Minimalist Graphic Design: Isolated object
Generous white space

Neo-Andean Architecture avoids generous white space: this is where the two pull against each other, which is the point of the contrast.
Surface from Neo-Andean Architecture: Gloss & highlights
Flat

The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Minimalist Graphic Design

Luxe

Inter Tight, standing in for Helvetica Neue (light weights)

Text · Neo-Andean Architecture

The facades and party halls of El Alto, Bolivia, begun by the Aymara builder-architect Freddy Mamani in 2005 for a new Aymara merchant class. A tall block stacks shops, a salón de eventos, rental flats and the owner's rooftop chalet behind one symmetrical front of Andean crosses, diagonal planes, circles and sweeping curves drawn from Tiwanaku carving, in fluorescent colours taken from awayo cloth and set with reflective tinted glass. Ballrooms add colour gradients, LED lines, chandeliers and stained glass; recent cholets add giant pop-culture figures.

Jost; Neo-Andean Architecture used No lettering tradition of its own is documented; for graphics, draw angular, stepped display capitals from the facade's chakana and diagonal-plane geometry and Heavy geometric sans capitals cut from flat panels, like the facade's own planes, for a salón's name in Aymara or Spanish

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Neo-Andean Architecture, with a counter-accent from Minimalist Graphic Design. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Minimalist Graphic Design Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets)

#ffd800 ground · 36%
#2f4f4a ink · 14%
#ff8c00 accent · 18%
#8c8a86 accent · 14%
#e6007e accent · 10%
#00a7c8 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffd800;
  --ink: #2f4f4a;
  --accent-1: #ff8c00;
  --accent-2: #8c8a86;
  --accent-3: #e6007e;
  --accent-4: #00a7c8;
  --font-display: "Inter Tight", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Jost", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets): Neo-Andean architecture is the living work of named Aymara builders, makers and their clients in El Alto, and its chakana, Tiwanaku, Pachamama and awayo motifs carry Aymara identity and ritual meaning. Credit Freddy Mamani and the other makers by name, among them facade sculptors such as Ramiro Sirpa. Do not pass the motifs off as generic 'Inca' decoration, and do not use the look as a joke about kitsch or new money: its owners built it after decades of contempt for Indigenous migrants. 'Cholet' joins chalet with cholo, a word long used as a slur against people of Indigenous origin (though some in Bolivia now reclaim it), and Mamani does not much like the label, so call the style Neo-Andean or new Andean architecture.