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Elements carry equal weight; the reader chooses the path.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under space & hierarchy: how is attention distributed?
- styles make it
- 65
- as a defining choice
- 1
- as a usual one
- 37
- now and then
- 27
- avoid it
- 7
Styles defined by it 1
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
Styles that often use it 37
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
- Square Kufic (Bannāʾī)Square Kufic builds Arabic script on a square grid: straight lines and right angles only, with every stroke as wide as the gap beside it.
- Tibetan Woodblock Print Culture (Pecha & Prayer Flags)Tibetan Buddhist and Bön woodblock printing, from the first printed Kangyur (1410, cut in China) and the 15th-century presses of Gungthang to the great printing houses of Narthang, Derge and Lhasa.
- Arnhem Land Bark Painting & RarrkPainting in ochres on flattened stringybark by Yolŋu, Kunwinjku, Kuninjku and other clans of Arnhem Land, carrying ceremonial designs into portable form; collected from 1912, painted through art centres since the 1970s.
- DadaBorn in wartime Zurich at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 and spreading to Berlin, Hanover, Cologne and Paris, Dada used chance, absurdity and provocation against the culture that had produced the war.
- Western Desert IconographyThe acrylic painting movement that took form at Papunya in 1971, when men there painted the Honey Ant Dreaming on the school wall and then on board, carrying an older practice of sand, body and ceremonial designs into lasting form. 'Western Desert' is an umbrella name: the movement also includes Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Arrernte painters of the Central Desert.
- Hong Kong Protest Art (Umbrella Movement to the 2019–20 Protests)The graphics of Hong Kong's democracy protests, from the 2014 Umbrella Movement to the national security law of 2020, in two linked media.
Styles that use it now and then 27
An occasional choice in these styles.
- Andean Woven Graphic Systemsc. 600–present
- Islamic Geometric & Calligraphic Traditionc. 690–present
- Song–Ming Woodblock Book Typography (Songti / Mincho)c. 960–present
- Mixteca-Puebla Codex Paintingc. 1200–1560
- Kōwhaiwhai & Toi Māori Design1500–present
- Burmese Parabaik Painting (Konbaung Folding Books)1752–1885
- Nieuwe Kunst (Dutch Art Nouveau)1892–1914
- Uli & Nsibidi Line and Sign Tradition1900–present
- Leningrad Avant-Garde Picture Book1922–1936
- Ligne Claire (Franco-Belgian Clear Line)1929–present
- Jeepney Art1946–present
- Escuela Bruguera (Spanish Humour Comics)1947–1986
- Zagreb Modernist Graphics (EXAT 51 to Teatar &TD)1951–1975
- Dazibao (Big-Character Posters)1957–1980
- Op Art Graphics1960–1975
- Total Design & Dutch Functionalism1963–1990
- Tingatinga Painting1968–present
- Dutch Expressive Postmodernism (Studio Dumbar & Hard Werken)1977–1994
- Global Village Coffeehouse1988–2003
- Grunge Typography1990–2000
- L'Association and French Alternative Comics1990–present
- Torres Strait Islander Linocut1991–present
- Glitch Art & Datamosh Graphics2001–present
- Cartonera Books (Latin American Cardboard Publishing)2003–present
- Vaporwave2011–2017
- NFT Profile-Picture Collections (CryptoPunks to Bored Apes)2017–present
- Black Lives Matter Street Murals2020–present
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- All-over fieldin 34 of 65
- Horror vacuiin 46 of 65
- Repetition & rhythmin 49 of 65
- Modular gridin 28 of 65
- Pattern & repeatin 29 of 65
- Rectilinearin 32 of 65
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.
- Ottoman Tughra & Dîvânî Chancery Calligraphyc. 1324–present
- Zoomorphic & Figural Calligraphy (Islamic Calligrams)1500–present
- Emblem Book (Motto, Picture & Epigram)1531–1724
- Belle Époque Lithographic Poster1866–1914
- Italian Fascist Graphics (Romanità & Exhibition Photomontage)1921–1943
- Socialist Realist Propaganda Poster1932–1989
- Korean Webtoon Graphics2002–present