Circuittyylisissä

Circuittyylisissä is a Finnish design term describing a visual language that borrows from electrical circuitry and printed circuit boards. It covers graphic design, illustration, fashion, and media products that use circuit-like lines, schematic icons, and neon-like color palettes to evoke technological precision and retro-futurism.

The term combines circuitti (circuit) with the Finnish suffix -tyylisissä, indicating "in the style of," and is used to refer to a specific aesthetic rather than a formal movement. It emerged in Finnish design discourse in the early 2010s and has since been used to describe a coherent set of visual cues rather than a unified school.

Typical elements include PCB traces, chip silhouettes, resistor and capacitor icons, grid-based layouts, and color schemes featuring cyan, green, magenta, or electric blues. Images often incorporate a sense of technical schematics, sometimes with glitch or paralleled typography reminiscent of computer interfaces. The style is frequently embedded in minimal compositions to emphasize structure and legibility, while still conveying a sense of machine-age futurism.

In practice, circuittyylisissä appears in posters, album art, game interfaces, and branding for tech-oriented projects. It reflects broader Nordic design interests in digital aesthetics, craft, and modular systems. The term remains most common in design circles, where it is used descriptively rather than prescriptively, and it is sometimes contrasted with more organic or post-digital styles.

See also: cyberpunk aesthetics, PCB art, retro-futurism.