
01 / Overview
Feels educational, human, independent, with a deliberate rather than generic personality.
Signature move
Overprinted data layers reveal comparison through physical color mixing and registration.
- Intensity
- expressive
- Versatility
- 4 / 5
- ID
risograph-data
02 / Example art
Risograph Data
Original artwork establishes the direction's visual language before it is translated into an interface.

03 / Website example
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Examples are in production
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04 / Fit
Suitable for
Suitable for
education / nonprofit / publishing / research / community / culture
Business goals
teach / explain / participate / remember
A strong choice when
Strong when education, nonprofit, publishing, research need to teach, explain, participate through a memorable but repeatable visual system.
Avoid when
Avoid when the brief needs complete visual neutrality or when this direction would compete with essential information and actions.
05 / Design system
Design system
Rules that should remain coherent as content, devices, and business needs change.
- 01Composition
- Clear charts and diagrams share a modular print sheet with notes, legends, and purposeful overlap.
- 02Hierarchy
- Make the signature move the first organizing decision, then reveal supporting information through stable scale, alignment, and sequence.
- 03Typography
- Friendly grotesque or slab with sturdy labels that tolerate print texture and small sizes.
- 04Color
- Two or three spot colors whose overprints carry real comparison or hierarchy.
- 05Imagery
- Simplified diagrams, documentary halftones, and drawn evidence rather than decorative doodles.
- 06Material
- Visible ink grain, misregistration, paper, and overprint remain bounded enough for accessibility.
- 07Motion
- Digital layers register, separate, and recombine to explain relationships.
Adaptation
Keep the signature move invariant. Adapt imagery, material, language, and interaction to the actual education, nonprofit, publishing context rather than copying a finished reference.
Accessibility
Use progressive disclosure, stable alignment, and generous line spacing for dense information. Meet WCAG AA contrast, visible focus, 44px targets, and never encode meaning through color or style alone.
06 / Background
Background
These lineages are source-linked research doors, not permission to copy a particular work or brand.
- 01risograph
- 02isotype
- 03screenprint
- 04concrete poetry
Guardrail
Provide clean high-contrast alternatives for dense charts and accessibility needs.
07 / Agent recipe
risograph-data
Use the stable ID and recipe to give design agents the same context. Always adapt the output to the real business.
Prompt recipe
Use case: stylized-concept
Asset type: Aesthetic Directions Encyclopedia showcase, 3:2 landscape master
Primary request: Create one polished freeform showcase for Risograph Data, applied to COMMON COUNT, a clearly fictional community housing observatory.
Scene/backdrop: a two-color risograph report, wall chart, and neighborhood handout turning housing data into tactile public evidence.
Style/medium: A coherent contemporary design world, not a collage of references. Make information feel authored, approachable, and worth handling without weakening its rigor.
Composition/framing: Clear charts and diagrams share a modular print sheet with notes, legends, and purposeful overlap. Keep all important content inside an 8 percent safe margin.
Typography: Friendly grotesque or slab with sturdy labels that tolerate print texture and small sizes.
Color palette: Two or three spot colors whose overprints carry real comparison or hierarchy.
Imagery: Simplified diagrams, documentary halftones, and drawn evidence rather than decorative doodles.
Materials/textures: Visible ink grain, misregistration, paper, and overprint remain bounded enough for accessibility.
Text (verbatim): "COMMON COUNT". No other readable words.
Constraints: Original fictional concept; visibly applied to editorial, data-viz, poster; realistic production detail; no real company, client, result, claim, signature, or watermark; no imitation of a living artist or proprietary campaign.
Avoid: fake random misregistration, handmade texture over unreadable data, cute illustration that trivializes the subject, real logos, watermarks, artist imitation, generic mood board, illegible filler text.
Pilot refinement: Make one dominant integrated real-world application readable at thumbnail scale. Secondary views may support it but must remain subordinate. Do not create an equal-weight tiled mood board or generic presentation collage unless sequencing is essential to the direction. Render the exact requested text correctly and do not invent other readable copy.Working constraints
- Use one coherent direction grammar, not a collage of style references.
- Use only a fictional business and minimal exact text.
- Do not imitate a living artist, real brand, client project, or proprietary campaign.
- Preserve essential hierarchy, legibility, contrast, and reduced-motion equivalence.
- Avoid: fake random misregistration.
- Avoid: handmade texture over unreadable data.
- Avoid: cute illustration that trivializes the subject.
08 / Sources & rights
Sources & rights
Work ownerSol
Example licenseAll rights reserved
- 01
RISO — RISO ART
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 02
Gerd Arntz Web Archive — Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 03
MoMA — Screenprint
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 04
MoMA — Dieter Roth: The Concrete
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
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