# Corporate Grunge × Grunge — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=corporate-grunge+grunge
# Corporate Grunge carries the structure and Grunge 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 Corporate Grunge (style, late 1980s–mid-1990s) and their accent from Grunge (style, 1990s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Corporate Grunge exists for: youth, sports, and music advertising that needs resistance without sacrificing price or feature information, or editorial work about the commercialization of 1990s underground culture. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Corporate Grunge

- Distressed or overprinted display headlines
- Tilted subheads alongside orderly body copy
- Rough monochrome photography with one red or yellow overprint
- Torn edges, hand marks, and copier noise used selectively

Composition: Lock the product and required information in rectangles; collide cropped photos and drawn marks around them. Type and lettering: Distress display type only, then restore body copy to one face, alignment, and line length.

## Accent comes from Grunge, used sparingly

- Scuffing
- Tears
- Disordered type
- Low-quality copies

Let one material quality come from it: Dirty paper, grain, low chroma plus one accent.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #E5E0D5, carry the structure in #C8432F and #1B1A18, and let a single accent come from #6d694e. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: rebellion, exhilaration, trust, nostalgia.

## What goes wrong

- Corporate Grunge: When everything becomes unreadable, it is simply grunge. Corporate Grunge depends on destruction and legibility remaining visible on the same surface.
- Grunge: Texture overlays alone feel dated. Run the logic of wear through photo, type and margin alike.

## 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/corporate-grunge/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/grunge/design.md