# Arts and Crafts × Deutscher Werkbund — composed image prompt # IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=arts-and-crafts+deutscher-werkbund # Arts and Crafts carries the structure. Deutscher Werkbund appear as accents, each further back than the last. # Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work. An original image that takes its structure from Arts and Crafts (Style, 1860s–1910s) and its accent from Deutscher Werkbund (Style, 1907–1938 / 1950–). Structural cues: Repeating plants; Flat contours; Density of handwork; Colors from nature. Accent cues, used sparingly: Standardization with quality; Art allied with industry; Prototype of corporate identity; Experimental housing exhibitions. Composition: Repeat plants and creatures with the seams hidden. Type and lettering: Serifs or ornamented letters that feel hand-cut. Let one material quality come from the second style: Standard industrial materials, with quality carried by the finish. Mood: Intimacy, Luxury, Nostalgia, Trust, Technology, Futurism. Color: build on #1f3540, #a7a26b, #d9c9a6 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above. # Where the two fight # - Arts and Crafts and Deutscher Werkbund share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over. # Cautions carried from each entry # - Arts and Crafts: A floral print alone loses the conviction. Align material, making and a structure that lasts. # - Deutscher Werkbund: Reading standardization as sameness, making everything one shape and skipping the argument about quality, which lands in dull mass production. # Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/arts-and-crafts/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/deutscher-werkbund/design.md