Period

Graphic-design styles from the 1700s

Styles that began in the 1700s, by the year the atlas gives for when each took shape. Stylogeny describes 10 of them. The earliest began in 1700, the latest in 1796. Of these, 7 are still in use.

← 1600s 1800s →

The 10 styles

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

Adinkra & Kente Symbol Systems1700–present · Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Akan textile languages of Ghana.
Diné (Navajo) Weaving Design1700–present · North AmericaThe tapestry-woven design tradition of Diné (Navajo) weavers, recorded in Spanish sources from the early 18th century.
Northwest Coast Formline Design1700–present · North AmericaThe two-dimensional design system of the northern Northwest Coast nations, painted, carved and woven onto boxes, house fronts, robes and hats, and printed as serigraphs since the 1960s.
Pacific Barkcloth (Tapa) Design1700–present · OceaniaBarkcloth beaten from paper-mulberry inner bark and decorated across Polynesia and Fiji for gift exchange at weddings, funerals and chiefly investitures.
Thai Yantra (Yant) Diagrams1700–present · Southeast AsiaThai 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.
Burmese Parabaik Painting (Konbaung Folding Books)1752–1885 · Southeast AsiaPainted Burmese folding books of the Konbaung court and its monasteries.
Neoclassical Book Typography1757–1830 · Western Europe, Southern Europe, Central EuropeThe Enlightenment book stripped of Renaissance woodcut decoration.
Chaekgeori & Minhwa Screen Painting1776–present · East AsiaKorean painted folding screens of the late Joseon period.
Edo-moji Commercial Lettering (Kanteiryū, Yose-moji, Sumō-ji)1779–present · East AsiaThe fat, ink-heavy brush hands that Edo's professional sign and bill writers made for the city's entertainments: Kanteiryū for kabuki signboards and playbills from 1779, yose-moji for rakugo halls, sumō-ji for sumo ranking sheets, and squarish kago-moji for votive name slips.
Imagerie d'Épinal & European Bilderbogen1796–1939 · Western Europe, Central EuropeCheap single-sheet popular prints sold by pedlars across 19th-century Europe, led by the Pellerin imagerie at Épinal and the Neuruppin Bilderbogen.

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.

Authoritative & institutionalin 10 of 10
Spiritual & sacredin 9 of 10
Borders & framesin 9 of 10
Rectilinearin 8 of 10
Textile & craftin 7 of 10
Central symmetryin 10 of 10
Framed panelsin 9 of 10
Repetition & rhythmin 9 of 10

Where they come from

Their branches

Traditions & vernacular10

Graphic-design styles from the 1700s

The 10 styles

The design choices they share

Where they come from

Their branches

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