# New Wave × The Face — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=new-wave+the-face
# New Wave carries the structure and The Face 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 New Wave (style, 1970s–1980s) and their accent from The Face (style, 1980s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing New Wave exists for: editorial heat for culture media, or adding surprise to serious content. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from New Wave

- Irregular grid
- Dots
- High chroma
- Rotated type

Composition: Shift the grid; hold several angles at once. Type and lettering: Mix condensed, geometric and vertical setting.

## Accent comes from The Face, used sparingly

- Extra bold headline letters drawn on geometry
- Heavy rules and black bars dividing the page
- Section marks that change shape issue by issue
- Large type laid over the photograph

Let one material quality come from it: Keep a set of section marks that change shape each issue, working in black areas and reversed white.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #f1dfca, carry the structure in #f03d51 and #3156af, and let a single accent come from #b9a58f. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: play, rebellion, exhilaration, luxury, calm.

## Where they fight

- New Wave and The Face share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.

## What goes wrong

- New Wave: Don't multiply small decorations. Choose one starring deviation.
- The Face: When redrawing the letterforms every issue becomes the aim in itself, the marks stop working as signposts for the reader and every issue looks equally loud.

## 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/new-wave/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/the-face/design.md