supergraphics

American  

[soo-per-graf-iks] / ˌsu pərˈgræf ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.

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Other Word Forms

• supergraphic adjective

Etymology

Origin of supergraphics

First recorded in 1965–70; super- + graphics

Example Sentences

Chips, completed by Alsop in 2009, is a great stacked apartment building of three wonky oblongs, dressed with coloured panels emblazoned with supergraphics.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2012

The staff cafeteria is immaculate, lit with fluorescence and perked up by leaf-green supergraphics.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not the "universal" grid-space, the abstract Raum-with-a-view of Bauhaus thought, but a choppily processional medium, full of ambiguities and kinks, stagy, and as apt to be inflected by supergraphics as by walls.

From Time Magazine Archive