Push Pin Style
プッシュピン・スタイル / 1954–1980s / Style / Illustration Styles
Glaser and Chwast's studio style — the counterpoint to Swiss rationalism — an illustration-led eclecticism of historical styles, comics and popular prints whose fat contours and ornamental color repainted 1960s–70s magazines and records.
Eclectic historical revival / Fat contours, ornamental color / Illustration-led composition / Wit and quotation
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Milton Glaser / Seymour Chwast / the Push Pin Graphic