Guides to choosing a design style
These guides let you begin with what you are making, not a style name you already know. Each one organises independent, source-backed styles by lineage and use.
17 styles
Printmaking techniques
Compare 17 printmaking techniques through real works and documented processes, from woodcut and engraving to monotype, collotype and chine collé.
14 styles
Japanese and Chinese painting
Compare Yamato-e, the Kanō school, Nanga, Gongbi, Xieyi and other painting traditions through subjects, brushwork, colour and composition, with museum sources and real works.
12 styles
Web design styles
A curated map of web design styles, from Swiss structure and flat interfaces to the vernacular web, glassmorphism and web brutalism.
12 styles
App UI styles
Compare twelve sourced app and operating-system interface languages, including Aqua, Metro, Material Design, Fluent 2, HarmonyOS and Liquid Glass.
34 styles
Fashion styles
A sourced guide to thirty-four fashion systems, from Farthingale, Pannier and Bustle silhouettes to workout style, Rivethead, Nu-Metal, Emo, Acubi, E-style, Mall Goth, streetwear, deconstruction, Gorpcore and Yami Kawaii.
28 styles
Internet aesthetics
A sourced route through twenty-eight internet-born and digitally circulated styles, from ASCII Art, Web 1.0 and Vaporwave to Vectordelia, Tumblr, Mallsoft, DeepDream and Cybersigilism.