Stylogeny combining Pop Art Graphics × Risograph

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Pop Art Graphics × Risograph

Print Ben-Day dot screens in fluorescent pink and yellow riso inks to give Pop's mass-media imagery a small-run, handmade warmth.

From the research on Pop Art Graphics

Mix them and make something Pop Art Graphics Risograph

Yay!Pop Art Graphics × Risograph1955 · 2008
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Pop Art Graphics, their arrangement from Pop Art Graphics, the finish from Risograph. 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.

Pop Art Graphics Risograph & Indie Print Culture

Type from Risograph
Colour from Pop Art Graphics
Form from Pop Art Graphics
Composition from Pop Art Graphics
Surface from Risograph

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The type

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

Display · Risograph

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Inter Tight, standing in for Neo-grotesques set large (e.g. Akzidenz-Grotesk, Helvetica)

Text · Pop Art Graphics

Pop turned the commercial imagery of post-war consumer culture (comics, packaging, celebrity photographs and advertising) into both its subject and its method. Images are appropriated, enlarged, flattened and repeated; colour is bright and unmodulated; and the printing process itself, from Ben-Day dots to off-register silkscreen, is left visible as a sign of mass production.

Archivo; Pop Art Graphics used Comic-book hand lettering and Franklin Gothic

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Pop Art Graphics, with a counter-accent from Risograph. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Pop Art Graphics Risograph & Indie Print Culture

  • #fbf8f0 ground · 36%
  • #111111 ink · 14%
  • #ffd400 accent · 18%
  • #ff48b0 accent · 14%
  • #e10600 accent · 10%
  • #f15060 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #fbf8f0;
  --ink: #111111;
  --accent-1: #ffd400;
  --accent-2: #ff48b0;
  --accent-3: #e10600;
  --accent-4: #f15060;
  --font-display: "Inter Tight", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

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The two styles

A retro comic-style woman with curled dark hair, a pink headscarf and red nails holds an open bottle of dark fizzy drink. Large yellow “ZING!” lettering fills the top above bright starbursts, bubbles and red, yellow and blue halftone textures. 1955–1975 · North America, Western Europe Pop Art Graphics Pop turned the commercial imagery of post-war consumer culture (comics, packaging, celebrity photographs and advertising) into both its subject and its method. Images are appropriated, enlarged, flattened and repeated; colour is bright and unmodulated; and the printing process itself, from Ben-Day dots to off-register silkscreen, is left visible as a sign of mass production. Large pink lettering reading “PLANT CLUB” sits above a blue cat looking upward among potted houseplants and trailing vines. Bright yellow and pink offset shapes and grainy ink textures cover the cream background. 2008–present · Global / networked Risograph & Indie Print Culture A contemporary culture of zines, art books, posters and prints made on Japanese Risograph stencil duplicators, whose soy-based spot inks (fluorescent pink, yellow, blue, teal) are laid down one drum at a time. Designers embrace the machine's limits: translucent overprints, slight misregistration, grainy coverage and coarse halftones give flat illustration and type a warm, handmade vibrancy at low cost.

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