2012, David Dudley, "Lost City Diner", Urbanite, February 2012, page 57:
The walls are bedecked with improbable decopunk contraptions, a chrome rocket hangs above the entrance, and the servers are uniformed in snappy Eastern European military outfits, like crew members of a visiting zeppelin.
2013, Christina Mitas, "Electroswing 101: A Guide To Finding Bliss In A Generation Gap", The Cut Magazine, March 2013, page 13:
Watching one of their music videos is like watching an informational video on decopunk, a spin-off culture from steampunk, bringing a whole new kind of meaning and relevance to their sound.
Depending on the era in which a story takes place, there are other similar offshoots, such as Clockpunk (Renaissance), Dieselpunk (mid-1910s to mid-1940s), Decopunk (1920s-1950s), or Atompunk (mid-1940s to mid-1960s).
Join Valente, bestselling author of the Fairyland series, for a talk on Radiance, a decopunk pulp sci fi alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own.
The decopunk Halloween party celebrates Valente's new novel, Radiance, "the tale of Severin Unck, a heroine from an alternate solar system who disappears after going to Venus to film a documentary about a vanished colony."
2016, Nikki Druce, Making Steampunk Jewellery, unnumbered page:
This style is well suited to a Decopunk outfit and adds real elegance to an outfit.
2018, Gareth Schott, "What or Who is behind Rapture? Experimentation, Social Engineering, and Bio-Hacking in Bioshock", in Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock (eds. Felan Parker & Jessica Aldred), page 226:
Although it represents an underdeveloped derivative of cyberpunk, decopunk appears a more adequate descriptor for Bioshock's visual and design aesthetic, both externally and internally.
2018, Catherynne M. Valente, "Just Your Average Tuesday-Morning Minotaur", in Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy (eds. Benjamin Eldon Stevens & Brett M. Rogers), unnumbered page:
Hell, Radiance is best described as a decopunk noir Venusian space opera alt-Hollywood mystery with space whales and it is easily the most Greco-Roman thing I've ever written.
2021, Murray Green, "Murder mystery play at Bailey", The Camrose Booster (Camrose, AB), 14 September 2021, page 13:
The play is directed by Mike Hicks of Infinite Imagination. “We are going to perform the play in a style of decopunk. Most people are familiar with steampunk, which features coppers and leather. Decopunk is more silvers and greys mixed with past and future aspects,” explained Mike.
