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15 December 2007

Askin'MeCha: What is this style called? →[More:] It's not quite damask, certainly not baroque, but this swirly, nature inspired style is popular. Does it have a name?

post by: theora55 at: 12:43 | 14 comments

To me it's a bit reminscent of some of Peter Max's work ... often referred to as the Psychedelic Movement in art and graphic design.

posted by ericb 15 December | 12:48

Whatever it is, it's delightful and I want to go to the Land Where That Lives.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 15 December | 12:56

IANADesigner, but there's also a lot of Art Nouveau inspiration in the curled horticultural forms.

posted by Miko 15 December | 13:05

I really want to know this, too. At one point I was going to post an AskMe about it, but I lost track of my example links.

posted by taz 15 December | 13:13

Another vote for Peter Max/Psychedelic. It brings me back to the 1960's... against my will.

posted by wendell 15 December | 13:19

post-Nouveau? Seriously it's so new it doesn't seem to have a name quite yet.

posted by dabitch 15 December | 13:20

Ha, I was going to post an askme about this, or about the more general emergence of trends. Suddenly this style is EVERYWHERE, and I wondered how that happened.

posted by desjardins 15 December | 13:32

Oooooo. Pretty.

posted by iconomy 15 December | 13:45

Seriously it's so new it doesn't seem to have a name quite yet.

Let's name it ourselves then!

posted by iconomy 15 December | 13:45

Suddenly this style is EVERYWHERE, and I wondered how that happened.

Apparently, the stake we pounded into its heart in the late 1970's wasn't deep enough.

posted by wendell 15 December | 14:12

Let's name it ourselves then!

NeoBaroque.

NeoNoveau.

Noveau Baroque.

posted by ericb 15 December | 14:56

Noveauqueadelia.

posted by Miko 15 December | 16:33

Those British mags like Computer Arts Projects or Digital Creative Arts, and the like, are often full of that sort of illustration.

posted by DarkForest 15 December | 17:14

I don't know but I love it. I am always trying to imitate it in Photoshop for fun.

posted by mayfly wake 15 December | 19:45

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