# Pacific Punk Wave × Swiss Punk Typography — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=pacific-punk-wave+swiss-punk
# Pacific Punk Wave carries the structure and Swiss Punk Typography 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 Pacific Punk Wave (style, mid-1970s–early 1980s) and their accent from Swiss Punk Typography (style, 1970s–1980s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Pacific Punk Wave exists for: music, retail, and event promotion turning punk roughness into bright West Coast speed, or exhibitions tracing 1980s commercial graphics through regional intersections of several movements. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Pacific Punk Wave

- Abrupt changes between heavy and light type on diagonals
- High-contrast pink, turquoise, yellow, and black
- Boomerangs, waves, zigzags, and comic-like shapes
- A disciplined grid broken once by a kitsch image

Composition: Build a base grid, pass one wave or diagonal through it, and let only that line derail text and imagery. Type and lettering: Cross a heavy grotesk and thin italic at steep angles, changing speed word by word.

## Accent comes from Swiss Punk Typography, used sparingly

- The grid dismantled
- Exploding letterspacing
- Stepped compositions
- Layered-film textures

Let one material quality come from it: Layered exposures building halftone and reversal through the film.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #38A6A3, carry the structure in #F15A91 and #171719, and let a single accent come from #fb4c32. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: rebellion, exhilaration, play, technique.

## What goes wrong

- Pacific Punk Wave: Scattered shapes become a generic 1980s look. Keep the collision among Swiss order, punk, Googie, and Radical design visible.
- Swiss Punk Typography: Breaking a grid you never built leaves the offsets nothing to measure against, so the rebellion within discipline never happens and only mess remains.

## 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/pacific-punk-wave/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/swiss-punk/design.md