# FUI (Fantasy User Interface) × The New Aesthetic — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=fui+new-aesthetic
# FUI (Fantasy User Interface) carries the structure and The New Aesthetic 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 FUI (Fantasy User Interface) (style, 1997–) and their accent from The New Aesthetic (aesthetic, 2011–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing FUI (Fantasy User Interface) exists for: designing a screen that has to be read in the few seconds an actor is looking at it, or designing the display of a device that does not exist, as a picture that never has to work. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from FUI (Fantasy User Interface)

- One thing per screen that the audience is meant to read, with everything else present as density
- Columns of monospaced figures updating continuously while computing nothing
- Thin luminous lines on black, with shapes drawn as outlines and almost no fill
- Frames and controls that look like plausible equipment rather than pure abstraction

Composition: Decide the one thing to be read first and aim the light and the motion at it. Fill the rest with density that carries no meaning. Type and lettering: Lead with monospace and let most of the text act as texture. Only the word that must be read changes size and brightness.

## Accent comes from The New Aesthetic, used sparingly

- Pixels enlarged onto physical objects
- Recognition rectangles and coordinates
- Satellite, map and surveillance viewpoints
- Compression, omission and machine misclassification

Let one material quality come from it: Leave low resolution, compression and sensor output visibly unresolved.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #4FE3FF, carry the structure in #FF6A00 and #000000, and let a single accent come from #00FF66. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: futurity, technique, exhilaration, rebellion.

## What goes wrong

- FUI (Fantasy User Interface): Trying to make the screen genuinely operable thins out the density and scatters the information, and it stops being readable in the length of the performance.
- The New Aesthetic: Pixels and detection boxes used only as futuristic decoration erase the politics of who classifies whom.

## 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/fui/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/new-aesthetic/design.md