# New Wave Tropical × Rad Dog / Neon Surf — composed image prompt
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# New Wave Tropical carries the structure and Rad Dog / Neon Surf 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 Tropical (style, late 1970s–mid-1990s) and their accent from Rad Dog / Neon Surf (style, late 1980s–early 1990s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing New Wave Tropical exists for: giving music, travel, or food promotion urban speed without tropical photography, or critically examining how 1980s commercial graphics borrowed cultural imagery. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from New Wave Tropical

- Irregular fields resembling hand-cut heavy paper
- Oversized leaves, birds, waves, and suns layered flat
- High-saturation magenta, turquoise, yellow, green, and black
- Slanted sans and hand lines following cut edges

Composition: Crop one large leaf or wave and overlap only three or four differently scaled color fields. Type and lettering: Set a short slanted sans phrase and align one edge with an irregular cut-paper boundary.

## Accent comes from Rad Dog / Neon Surf, used sparingly

- Fluorescent pink, lime, and cyan splatter on black or white
- Cartoon animals, waves, boards, teeth, and flames
- Heavy slanted lettering with multiple outline, shadow, and scratch layers
- One mascot repeated across shirts, boards, stickers, and equipment

Let one material quality come from it: Use screen-print-like fluorescent flats, coarse halftone, vinyl stickers, and painted boards with one shared color separation.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #E6C832, carry the structure in #28A6A1 and #E95082, and let a single accent come from #F044A0. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: exhilaration, play, rebellion.

## What goes wrong

- New Wave Tropical: Do not treat African, Caribbean, or Latin cultural symbols as generic tropical decoration. Verify region and maker and state provenance when using specific imagery.
- Rad Dog / Neon Surf: Do not use Indigenous or Pacific forms historically marketed as tribal without provenance. Build from fictional animals, waves, splatter, and speed lines, and never imitate an existing brand mascot.

## 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-tropical/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/rad-dog-neon-surf/design.md