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 Bauhaus: Treat shapes and letters as the same building blocks
- Type
- Set in Bauhaus's manner (Geometric sans-serif), and let Bauhaus Stage's lettering (Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Bauhaus's material (Red, blue and yellow held together by black and off-white); bring in exactly one thing from Bauhaus Stage (Spheres, cones and cylinders in primary color and metallic sheen).
- Colour
- Build on #eee7d4, #df2c22, #153f8c and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Bauhaus Scattered shapes read as childish. Give every element a job.
- Bauhaus Stage Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Bauhaus (Style, 1919–1933) and its accent from Bauhaus Stage (Style, 1921–1929). Structural cues: Elementary shapes; Primary colors; Functional beauty; Visible structure. Accent cues, used sparingly: Geometrized bodies; Costumes of spheres and cones; Three acts by color; Choreography as spatial figure. Composition: Treat shapes and letters as the same building blocks. Type and lettering: Geometric sans-serif. Let one material quality come from the second style: Spheres, cones and cylinders in primary color and metallic sheen. Mood: Trust, Play, Futurism, Technology. Color: build on #eee7d4, #df2c22, #153f8c with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. 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
- Bauhaus 1919–1933 / Style / Functionalism
Makes function and play coexist through the circle, triangle and square.
- Bauhaus Stage 1921–1929 / Style / Stage Design
Schlemmer's stage workshop turned the body into geometry. Spheres and cones in the Triadic Ballet costumes set the human figure dancing as a form in space, and performance art traces its origin to them.
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