# AfriCOBRA × Nsukka Group — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=africobra+nsukka-group
# AfriCOBRA carries the structure and Nsukka Group appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from AfriCOBRA (style, 1968–) and their accent from Nsukka Group (style, 1970s–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing AfriCOBRA exists for: posters for Black community events and music where color and rhythm are the subject, or affirming words built into the image and printed to be carried and held up. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from AfriCOBRA

- Kool-Aid colors
- Rhythmic repetition
- Letters and figures
- Afrocentric imagery

Composition: Repeat one shape at even intervals so the eye keeps circling the surface. Type and lettering: Bend the words along the figures so the slogan becomes structure, not caption.

## Accent comes from Nsukka Group, used sparingly

- Long flowing black lines with changing weight
- Large negative shapes and open ground enclosed by line
- People, animals and plants compressed into signs
- Uli and nsibidi references crossing paper, textile, print and sculpture

Let one material quality come from it: Preserve the line quality of ink, pen, dye and print matrix instead of converting it into a uniform stock pattern. Credit community and maker.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #f0c632, carry the structure in #d8452c and #315c79, and let a single accent come from #A44B32. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: exhilaration, rebellion, intimacy, calm.

## What goes wrong

- AfriCOBRA: Copying only the intensity of color while dropping the community's words and faces stylizes the look and loses the purpose, which was affirmation.
- Nsukka Group: Repeating uli as an African pattern is not the Nsukka lineage. Show its relation to women's body and wall drawing, its university reinterpretation and differences among artists.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/africobra/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/nsukka-group/design.md