Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Arabic Calligraphy: Work right to left, shape the mass through overlap and empty ground
- Type
- Set in Arabic Calligraphy's manner (Choose one script and follow its proportions for joining and stacking), and let Calligram's lettering (One face or one hand, keeping the words continuous) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Arabic Calligraphy's material (Thick and thin from the reed angle, gold and blue kept to ornament); bring in exactly one thing from Calligram (Letter and paper as two colors; the shape itself is the star).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #eee8dc, #2b2925, #87969b.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Arabic Calligraphy Setting Arabic letter by letter as if it were Latin breaks the joins, and the word stops being readable long before it stops being beautiful.
- Calligram Don't fix a silhouette first and stuff words in. Let the text's rhythm generate the form.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Arabic Calligraphy (Style, 7th century–) and its accent from Calligram (Technique, antiquity–modernism). Structural cues: Architectural letterforms; Canonical scripts; Breathing thick-and-thin; Composition united with ornament. Accent cues, used sparingly: Text drawing a contour; Shifting reading direction; Meaningful blank space; Poem fused with figure. Composition: Work right to left, shape the mass through overlap and empty ground. Type and lettering: Choose one script and follow its proportions for joining and stacking. Let one material quality come from the second style: Letter and paper as two colors; the shape itself is the star. Mood: Luxury, Calm, Trust, Intimacy, Play. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #eee8dc, #2b2925, #87969b. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Arabic Calligraphy 7th century– / Style / Calligraphic Traditions
A tradition that holds writing to be the highest of the arts. From Kufic to Thuluth it has gone on refining an architecture of line, in the tension between canon and individual hand.
- Calligram antiquity–modernism / Technique / Lettering
Arranges words into the shape of what they say, so that reading and seeing happen in the same moment.
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