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 International Style's lettering (Align sans serif signs to the column grid, flush with the wall.) 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 International Style (Steel and concrete frame, white rendered planes, large sheets of glass.).
- Colour
- Build on #eee7d4, #df2c22, #153f8c and admit one accent from #eeece5, #9ca3a5, #252729.
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.
- International Style A white box alone misses the structure, free plan, industrial materials and social program, and ornament stripped without tuned proportion and detail reads as cheapness, leaving openings with no reason for their position.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Bauhaus (Style, 1919–1933) and its accent from International Style (Style, 1920s–1960s). Structural cues: Elementary shapes; Primary colors; Functional beauty; Visible structure. Accent cues, used sparingly: Rectangular volumes; Glass planes; No ornament; The free plan. 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: Steel and concrete frame, white rendered planes, large sheets of glass.. Mood: Trust, Play, Calm, Futurism. Color: build on #eee7d4, #df2c22, #153f8c with a single accent drawn from #eeece5, #9ca3a5, #252729. 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.
- International Style 1920s–1960s / Style / Modern Architecture
Strips ornament and aims at a universal architectural language crossing borders: the box, the free plan, steel, concrete and glass.
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