Push Pin Studios Style vs Victorian Graphic Design
Push Pin Studios Style was influenced by Victorian Graphic Design.
Push Pin Studios Style
The eclectic, history-mining illustration of Push Pin Studios: flat decorative form, witty concept, and revived Art Nouveau, Victorian, and folk motifs. A warm, ornamental antidote to cold Swiss modernism.
- Flat, boldly colored decorative illustration
- Eclectic historicist revival of past styles
- Witty, concept-driven imagery
- Expressive, idiosyncratic line and silhouette
- Ornamental pattern and hand-lettered display type
Victorian Graphic Design
A dense, polychrome commercial idiom built on chromolithography, crowding trade cards and advertisements with ornate borders, layered display faces, and saturated color.
- Multi-stone chromolithographic color
- Crowded ornamental borders and scrollwork
- Mixed fat-face, Tuscan, and shadowed display types
- Vignetted sentimental or floral illustration
- Gilding, embossing, and decorative excess
At a glance
| Push Pin Studios Style | Victorian Graphic Design | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1954–1980s | 1840s–1900 |
| Discipline | Graphic Design | Graphic Design |
| Region | United States | Britain, United States, Western Europe |
| Family | Illustration | Victorian, Ornamental |
| Formal traits | flat-decorative, historicist, conceptual, ornamental | chromolithographic, ornamental-border, mixed-typefaces, maximalist |
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