Layout & composition · Free composition
Organic flow
Text and image follow curving, natural paths instead of a grid.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under layout & composition: how is the picture plane organised?
- styles make it
- 33
- as a defining choice
- 3
- as a usual one
- 13
- now and then
- 17
- avoid it
- 6
Styles defined by it 3
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
Styles that often use it 13
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
- Hebrew MicrographyA Jewish scribal art in which lines of minute Hebrew script, usually the Masoretic notes that guard the biblical text, are written so that the line itself draws: interlaced frames and star rosettes on full carpet pages, and animals, knights, fish and grotesques in the margins.
- Kōwhaiwhai & Toi Māori DesignToi Māori, the visual arts of the tangata whenua of Aotearoa, of which kōwhaiwhai, the painted scroll patterns of paddles and meeting-house rafters, is the most graphic strand.
- Zoomorphic & Figural Calligraphy (Islamic Calligrams)Pictorial writing in which the strokes of a devotional text form one figure: a lion of ʿAli built from the Nad-e ʿAli prayer, a galleon whose hull spells the names of the Seven Sleepers, a peacock, a Sufi cap.
- Hurufiyya Calligraphic ModernismA pan-Arab and Iranian modern-art movement, begun by Madiha Omar in the late 1940s, that freed the letters of the Arabic script from text and used them as abstract visual units.
Styles that use it now and then 17
An occasional choice in these styles.
- Chinese Calligraphy & Seal Carving (Shufa & Zhuanke)c. 0–present
- Ten Bamboo Studio Colour Woodblock (Douban & Gonghua)1626–present
- Fileteado Porteño1890–present
- Nieuwe Kunst (Dutch Art Nouveau)1892–1914
- Taishō Roman & Lyrical Illustration1910–1940
- Finnish Bold Print (Marimekko Modernism)1951–present
- Woodland School (Legend Painting)1962–present
- AfriCOBRA1968–present
- Warli Painting1970–present
- Western Desert Iconography1971–present
- Graffiti & Hip-Hop Graphics1972–present
- Pardhan Gond Painting (Jangarh Kalam)1981–present
- Global Village Coffeehouse1988–2003
- Black Metal Graphics1990–present
- Korean Commercial Calligraphy (Kaelligeurapi)1999–present
- Modern Calligraphy and Brush Lettering2005–present
- Polish Information Picture Book (Dwie Siostry)2008–present
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- Biomorphic curvesin 29 of 33
- Painterly brushworkin 25 of 33
- Whiplash linein 15 of 33
- Floral & vegetalin 19 of 33
- Pattern & repeatin 17 of 33
- Pen, brush & inkin 20 of 33
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.