Approved style system
Atlas Structure as Image
Turn relationships, classifications, and abstract systems into art that can be studied at a glance.
What stays fixed
- Make the structure of the idea the main subject.
- Use fine gold line work on deep navy when the collection calls for the house treatment.
- Give every sign, label, branch, and connection a clear visual job.
What can change
- Move between maps, plates, glyphs, taxonomies, marginalia, and lattice studies.
- Change the layout when the underlying relationships remain clear.
Publication check
- The underlying idea can be described in one plain sentence.
- The composition leads the eye through the relationship.
- Invented symbols are clearly presented as inventions.
- The finished plate belongs with the rest of the Atlas portfolio.