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Medium & production · Print industry

Risograph

Stencil duplicator printing with soy inks.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under medium & production: what technology shaped it?

styles make it: 7
as a defining choice: 1
as a usual one: 2
now and then: 4
avoid it: 0

Styles defined by it 1

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Risograph & Indie Print Culture2008–present · Global / networkedA contemporary culture of zines, art books, posters and prints made on Japanese Risograph stencil duplicators, whose soy-based spot inks (fluorescent pink, yellow, blue, teal) are laid down one drum at a time.

Styles that often use it 2

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 4

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.

Other choices in medium & production