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Ornament · Motif

Cosmic & celestial

Stars, suns, orbits, sparkles and planets.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under ornament: how much decoration, and of what kind?

styles make it: 66
as a defining choice: 4
as a usual one: 18
now and then: 44
avoid it: 0

Styles defined by it 4

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Googie & Atomic Age1945–1965 · North AmericaThe exuberant commercial modernism of post-war American roadside culture (coffee shops, motels, car washes, bowling alleys and neon signs), named in 1952 by critic Douglas Haskell after John Lautner's Googie's coffee shop in Los Angeles (1949).
Afrofuturist Design1970–present · North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Global / networkedA visual language of Black futures that fuses African and diasporic iconography (pyramids and ankhs, Adinkra and Nsibidi glyphs, textile patterning) with spacecraft, cosmic fields and technology.
Global Village Coffeehouse1988–2003 · North AmericaThe faux-naive, earth-toned illustration style that late-1980s American designers set against Memphis, and that chain cafés, bookstores, packaging and clip art spread through the 1990s.
Synthwave / Outrun2006–present · Global / networked, Western Europe, Northern Europe, North America, OceaniaThe retro-futurist look of synthwave music: a 1980s revival that grew from mid-2000s French electro and online synth scenes, took its other name from Sega's arcade racer Out Run (1986) and reached the mainstream with Drive (2011).

Styles that often use it 18

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 44

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Gradientsin 33 of 66
Gloss & highlightsin 19 of 66
Motion & broadcastin 20 of 66
Fluorescent & neonin 19 of 66
Single focal pointin 53 of 66
Web & CSSin 21 of 66

Other choices in ornament