Medium & production · Screen
Desktop publishing
Early Mac/PC layout, bitmap fonts and PostScript.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under medium & production: what technology shaped it?
- styles make it
- 19
- as a defining choice
- 5
- as a usual one
- 9
- now and then
- 5
- avoid it
- 5
Styles defined by it 5
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
- Nigerian Pentecostal Crusade Poster & BillboardThe roadside adverts of Nigeria's Pentecostal and independent churches: billboards, banners and posters on poles, walls and bridges announcing crusades, revivals, conventions and night vigils.
- Tamil Nadu Flex BannersThe digitally printed vinyl boards, locally called flex banners, that fan clubs, party cadres, businesses and families have put up along the roads of Tamil Nadu since about 2000, as flex displaced hand-painted cinema banners and cut-outs over the following decade.
Styles that often use it 9
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
- Machine-Age Simplified Arabic TypeArabic redrawn for the machine rather than the reed pen.
- South African Vernacular Design (Ijusi)A post-apartheid design language launched in Durban in 1995 by Garth Walker's Orange Juice Design and its free, experimental magazine Ijusi (isiZulu for 'juice'), which asked 'What makes me South African, and what does that look like?'.
Styles that use it now and then 5
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.
- Layered informationin 16 of 19
- Found & vernacular imageryin 13 of 19
- Collage & layeringin 13 of 19
- Eclectic mixingin 12 of 19
- Extreme scale contrastin 15 of 19
- Offset printingin 14 of 19
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.