#american
A cross-section of the catalog tagged american — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Illustration 7
- Comic & Graphic 5
- Era Aesthetics 4
- Photography 4
- Print & Poster 3
- Painting 2
- Cinematic Looks 2
- 3D / CGI 1
Styles tagged #american
28 styles
1950s Mid-Century Modern
Mid-century modern is the visual language of postwar American optimism, roughly 1947 to 1965, born in California, Scandinavia, and Italy…
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1960s Psychedelic
Psychedelic poster art is the visual language of San Francisco between 1965 and 1969 — the city's rock dance halls, concert promoters, an…
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1970s New Hollywood
The New Hollywood look is the photographic and cinematographic language of American films roughly 1967 to 1980 — gritty crime dramas, roa…
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1990s Grunge
Grunge as a visual style grew out of independent zine and magazine design of the early 1990s, plus the album-art and music-video aestheti…
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Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism was the first internationally dominant American art movement, centered in New York from roughly 1945 to 1960. It s…
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American Realism
American Realism's mid-twentieth-century painters built a vocabulary for painted loneliness. The components are specific: large flat plan…
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Deadpan Americana
This deadpan Americana cinematography style — recognizable across decades of American independent and crime-drama filmmaking — has a cohe…
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Painted Tissue Collage
This picture-book method is specific and physical: large sheets of tissue paper are hand-painted with acrylics — splatters, brushwork, fi…
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Stark Noir Comic
A landmark black-and-white American crime comic tradition built around a single technical choice: no halftones, no gray, no rendering bet…
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Golden Age Illustration
Golden Age illustration is the painted American narrative illustration that filled magazine covers, advertising, and book plates from rou…
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Staged Cinematic Still
This genre of photography produces images that look like single frames from films that don't exist. Each image is shot on a soundstage or…
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Mid-Century Storybook
Mid-century concept-art illustration from roughly 1940 to 1965 — the visual grammar behind theme-park ride art, animated-feature concept…
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Storybook Crosshatch
A mature mid-20th-century picture-book illustration style built on dense pen-and-ink crosshatching laid down before color. The technique…
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Mid-Century Graphic Illustration
Mid-Century Graphic Illustration is the flat, witty, geometry-driven American commercial illustration of roughly 1948–1965 — the look of…
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Heavy-Shadow Comic
A severely simplified, high-contrast comic-art idiom built from massive spotted blacks — the modern descendant of 1930s woodcut novels an…
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60s Graphic Pop
60s Graphic Pop is the warm, eclectic, idea-first American graphic illustration that emerged from independent studio collaboratives from…
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Modern Indie Comic
"Modern indie comic" describes the visual mainstream of American creator-owned comics from the early 1990s to the present — the wave of a…
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Editorial Ink Cartoon
American literary-magazine editorial illustration and cartooning has run in a coherent visual language for nearly a century. The style is…
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3D Animated
"3D animated style" is shorthand for a coherent set of CG-character-animation conventions refined by major animation studios since the mi…
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Mid-Century Title Card
Mid-century film title design redefined what title sequences could be — turning them into part of a film's storytelling, not a list of na…
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Painterly Street Color
This painterly color street photography approach captured American cities in color from the late 1940s through the 1970s, at a time when…
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Screen-Printed Concert Poster
The American screen-printed concert poster — also called the gig poster — has a continuous lineage from mid-1960s psychedelic-era posters…
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Silver Age Superhero
The Silver Age of American superhero comics runs from roughly 1956 to about 1970, when major publishers relaunched their costumed-hero ti…
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Floating Double Dolly
This visual signature includes one of the most distinctive single shots in modern American cinema: the "double dolly," in which the camer…
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Tintype / Wet Plate
The wet-plate collodion process was invented in 1851 and was the dominant photographic process from roughly 1855 to 1880, before gelatin…
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Underground Comix
Underground comix (the "x" spelling is original to the movement, used to distinguish from mainstream Comics Code-approved comic books) em…
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Mid-Century Street Photography
An amateur street photographer worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York from the 1950s through the 1990s and shot roughly 150,000 photog…
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WPA Travel Poster
Between 1936 and 1943 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project produced over 2,000 silkscreened posters to promote nationa…
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