Period

Graphic-design styles from the 1600s

Styles that began in the 1600s, by the year the atlas gives for when each took shape. Stylogeny describes 8 of them. The earliest began in 1600, the latest in 1670. Of these, 6 are still in use.

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The 8 styles

Oldest first. Each has its own page: its design choices, where it comes from, and real works.

Batik Pattern Tradition1600–present · Southeast AsiaThe Javanese wax-resist textile tradition in which hot wax is drawn with a canting or stamped with a copper cap, then dyed in successive baths to build layered all-over patterns.
Đông Hồ & Hàng Trống Folk Prints1600–present · Southeast AsiaVietnam's two classic folk-print schools, bought for Tết. Đông Hồ families press each colour from its own carved block onto giấy điệp, dó paper brushed with ground scallop shell whose streaked, faintly sparkling surface serves as the white, and print the black line last.
Rinpa & Saga-bon1600–present · East AsiaA Kyoto school of decorative design that revived the poetry and court painting of the Heian period, begun around 1600 by the calligrapher Hon'ami Kōetsu and the painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu and carried on less by teaching than by admiration across generations: Ogata Kōrin, Sakai Hōitsu, Kamisaka Sekka.
Sápmi Graphic Identity (Duodji & Gákti Colour Code)1600–present · Northern Europe, Eastern EuropeDuodji is Sámi handicraft: hard work in wood, horn and bone, soft work in skin and cloth; drums painted with alder-bark figures survive from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Ten Bamboo Studio Colour Woodblock (Douban & Gonghua)1626–present · East AsiaA kind of colour woodblock printing begun in late-Ming Nanjing, made so that a print looks like a brush painting.
Tarot de Marseille Woodcut Cards1639–present · Western Europe, Southern Europe, Central EuropeThe standard pattern of French tarot cards, descended from Milanese tarot and recut by card-makers in Paris, Lyon, Avignon, Dijon and Marseille from the 17th century.
Lubok Popular Print1650–1920 · Eastern EuropeCheap single-sheet Russian popular prints sold at fairs and by pedlars from the later 17th century: woodcut, later engraved and lithographed pictures of saints, fables, heroes, battles and satire in which text and image share one sheet.
Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints1670–1900 · East AsiaMass-produced Edo-period woodblock prints of actors, courtesans, legends and landscapes, designed by an artist, cut and printed by specialist craftsmen and sold cheaply by commercial publishers.

The design choices they share

The choices these styles make more often than the 359 styles in the atlas as a whole, most telling first.

Where they come from

Their branches

Traditions & vernacular8

Graphic-design styles from the 1600s

The 8 styles

The design choices they share

Where they come from

Their branches

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