Stylogeny combining Op Art Graphics × 10-gruppen Printed Textiles

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Op Art Graphics × 10-gruppen Printed Textiles

Both use stripes and repeats, but Op Art makes them vibrate; keep the stripes calm and add a figure to stay on the 10-gruppen side.

From the research on 10-gruppen (Tiogruppen) Printed Textiles

Mix them and make something Op Art Graphics 10-gruppen Printed Textiles

WOWOp Art Graphics × 10-gruppenPrinted Textiles
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from 10-gruppen Printed Textiles, their arrangement from Op Art Graphics, the finish from Op Art Graphics. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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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.

Op Art Graphics 10-gruppen (Tiogruppen) Printed Textiles

Type from Op Art Graphics
Colour from 10-gruppen Printed Textiles
Form from 10-gruppen Printed Textiles
Composition from Op Art Graphics
Surface from Op Art Graphics

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The type

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

Display · Op Art Graphics

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Monoton, standing in for Mexico 68 multiline lettering (Lance Wyman)

Text · 10-gruppen Printed Textiles

The printed fabrics of 10-gruppen, a Stockholm collective of ten textile designers founded in 1970: bright, flat all-over repeats of stripes, checks, dripping drops and simple figurative motifs such as dogs, bananas and Stockholm landmarks, in a few saturated inks on cotton or linen. Against the discreet patterns then usual in Swedish textiles, they made cheap, cheerful pattern for everyday goods, sold by the metre at IKEA and on bags and trays in the group's own shop. Unlike Marimekko's large organic shapes, the repeats are mid-sized, cleanly drawn and often pictorial.

Nunito; 10-gruppen Printed Textiles used No lettering in the repeat and IKEA's capitalised Swedish product names (STRIX/STRAX, PLASK, SOLREGN, RANDIG BANAN, as IKEA Museum writes them), the form in which most buyers met the group's prints; this naming is IKEA's convention, not a choice of the group, and the only lettering tied to the prints in the sources

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from 10-gruppen Printed Textiles, with a counter-accent from Op Art Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Op Art Graphics 10-gruppen (Tiogruppen) Printed Textiles

  • #f4f1e8 ground · 36%
  • #161616 ink · 14%
  • #f6c800 accent · 18%
  • #e3001b accent · 14%
  • #e8641c accent · 10%
  • #0050b5 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #f4f1e8;
  --ink: #161616;
  --accent-1: #f6c800;
  --accent-2: #e3001b;
  --accent-3: #e8641c;
  --accent-4: #0050b5;
  --font-display: "Monoton", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Nunito", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

Alternating red and white curved stripes fill the poster, swelling and pinching into a repeating optical illusion of bulges and tunnels. The word “PULSE” appears in tall, multiline red lettering near the center. 1960–1975 · Global / networked Op Art Graphics A 1960s style that turned perceptual research into graphic effect: precisely drawn lines, checks, concentric rings and modular grids, usually black and white or complementaries of equal value, that seem to vibrate, swell or move. Rooted in Bauhaus form teaching through Vasarely and Albers and popularised by MoMA's 1965 'The Responsive Eye', it spread quickly into posters, record sleeves, fashion textiles and identities such as Mexico 68. An all-over pattern shows black-haired people in yellow tops and orange trousers sitting in blue chairs with green mugs, interspersed with black cats and orange dome-shaped lamps on a cream background. Bold black lettering near the upper left reads “HEMMA.” 1970–2015 · Northern Europe 10-gruppen (Tiogruppen) Printed Textiles The printed fabrics of 10-gruppen, a Stockholm collective of ten textile designers founded in 1970: bright, flat all-over repeats of stripes, checks, dripping drops and simple figurative motifs such as dogs, bananas and Stockholm landmarks, in a few saturated inks on cotton or linen. Against the discreet patterns then usual in Swedish textiles, they made cheap, cheerful pattern for everyday goods, sold by the metre at IKEA and on bags and trays in the group's own shop. Unlike Marimekko's large organic shapes, the repeats are mid-sized, cleanly drawn and often pictorial.

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