Medium & production · Print industry
Photocopy & zine
Xerox and other cheap reproduction.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under medium & production: what technology shaped it?
- styles make it
- 17
- as a defining choice
- 1
- as a usual one
- 7
- now and then
- 9
- avoid it
- 1
Styles defined by it 1
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
Styles that often use it 7
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
- Black Metal GraphicsThe visual language of black metal, fixed by Norway's second wave in the early 1990s, now worldwide, since the 2010s borrowed by mainstream acts (Szpajdel's Rihanna and Metallica logos, 2016).
- Cartonera Books (Latin American Cardboard Publishing)Books of Latin America's cartonera presses, begun by Eloísa Cartonera in Buenos Aires in 2003 after Argentina's 2001 crash: photocopied texts stapled and glued by hand into covers cut from used boxes, usually bought from cartoneros (waste pickers) above the market price.
Styles that use it now and then 9
An occasional choice in these styles.
- Senegalese Sufi Devotional Imagery (Souwère Glass Painting and Amadou Bamba Portraits)1900–present
- Literatura de Cordel Woodcut1940–present
- Gráfica del 68 (Mexican Student Movement Graphics)1968
- Ultras Graphics (Curva Banners and Tifo)1968–present
- Graffiti & Hip-Hop Graphics1972–present
- Stencil Street Art1978–present
- Rave & Acid House Graphics1988–2000
- Grunge Typography1990–2000
- Risograph & Indie Print Culture2008–present
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- Rebellious & subversivein 15 of 17
- Screen printingin 12 of 17
- Photocopy & distressin 10 of 17
- Treated photographyin 11 of 17
- Found & vernacular imageryin 11 of 17
- Collage & layeringin 12 of 17
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.