Layout & composition · Axis & balance
Radial & concentric
Elements radiate from, or orbit around, a centre.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under layout & composition: how is the picture plane organised?
- styles make it
- 45
- as a defining choice
- 4
- as a usual one
- 20
- now and then
- 21
- avoid it
- 0
Styles defined by it 4
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
- Mexico 68 Olympic & Metro IdentityThe graphic programme of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and the city's first Metro line.
- 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.
Styles that often use it 20
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.
- 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.
- Thai Yantra (Yant) DiagramsThai protective diagrams in which Pali formulae, written in Khom, a sacred script derived from Khmer, are packed into squares, circles, triangles, spires and the outlines of Buddhas, monks and tigers, often framed by lines of script.
- Italian FuturismLaunched by Marinetti's 1909 manifesto, Futurism glorified speed, machines, the city and war, and turned the printed page into an explosive, noisy field.
- Estridentismo (Stridentist) GraphicsMexico's first avant-garde (1921-27), launched when Manuel Maples Arce pasted his manifesto Actual No. 1 on Mexico City walls.
Styles that use it now and then 21
An occasional choice in these styles.
- Mixteca-Puebla Codex Paintingc. 1200–1560
- Vyaz (Ornamental Slavonic Lettering)c. 1230–present
- Cuban Tobacco Lithography (Habilitaciones & Marquillas)1845–present
- African Wax & Fancy Print1880–present
- Kultur-Lige & Yiddish Avant-Garde Book Design1917–1924
- Russian Constructivism1917–1934
- AIZ Political Photomontage (Heartfield)1930–1938
- Socialist Realist Propaganda Poster1932–1989
- Story Manga (Postwar Japanese Comics)1947–present
- Hurufiyya Calligraphic Modernism1949–present
- Kinngait (Cape Dorset) Inuit Printmaking1957–present
- Cuban Revolutionary Poster (OSPAAAL & ICAIC)1960–1990
- Soviet Central Asian Ornamental Modernism1966–1999
- Gráfica del 68 (Mexican Student Movement Graphics)1968
- Ethiopian Revolutionary Poster (Derg Era)1974–1991
- Métal hurlant Science-Fiction Comics (Mœbius, Druillet & Les Humanoïdes Associés)1974–1987
- Global Village Coffeehouse1988–2003
- Superflat1993–present
- Generative & Dynamic Identities2007–present
- Data Humanism2014–present
- Latin American Feminist Protest Graphics (Ni Una Menos and the Green Wave)2015–present
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- Geometric primitivesin 27 of 45
- Angular & zigzagin 20 of 45
- Repetition & rhythmin 33 of 45
- Folk & sacred symbolsin 26 of 45
- Abundant decorationin 19 of 45
- Central symmetryin 34 of 45