Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Care Symbols: Wash, bleach, dry and iron in that order, evenly spaced in one row
- Type
- Set in Care Symbols's manner (Keep the four base outlines, line weight equal across all of them), and let i-mode Emoji's lettering (Built from masses of dots rather than lines, sized to sit inline at the height of the text) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Care Symbols's material (Woven or transfer labels whose outlines survive repeated washing); bring in exactly one thing from i-mode Emoji (Faces, weather and things held at one coarseness, dots reduced to the limit where they still read apart).
- Colour
- Build on #f4f3f5, #77889e, #433832 and admit one accent from #fcfdfc, #ffdd67, #4c3526.
Where they fight
- Care Symbols and i-mode Emoji both belong to Symbol Systems, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Care Symbols Thinning the lines to fit a smaller tag lets dots and crosses clog after washing, and a prohibition gets read as permission.
- i-mode Emoji Chasing fine detail inside the grid clogs the dots, and at the size of the text the figure no longer says what it is.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Care Symbols (style, 1958–) and their accent from i-mode Emoji (style, 1998-1999). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Care Symbols exists for: designing handling instructions that must cross every language, or printing instructions for several processes into a few millimeters. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Care Symbols - Tub, triangle, square and circle - The prohibition X and temperature dots - Compression into millimeters - International standardization Composition: Wash, bleach, dry and iron in that order, evenly spaced in one row. Type and lettering: Keep the four base outlines, line weight equal across all of them. ## Accent comes from i-mode Emoji, used sparingly - Figures fitted to a twelve by twelve grid - Shapes made of mass rather than of line - Set inline at the size of a letter - Faces, weather and symbols at one coarseness Let one material quality come from it: Faces, weather and things held at one coarseness, dots reduced to the limit where they still read apart. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #f4f3f5, carry the structure in #77889e and #433832, and let a single accent come from #ffdd67. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: trust, intimacy, technique, play. ## Where they fight - Care Symbols and i-mode Emoji both belong to Symbol Systems, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable. ## What goes wrong - Care Symbols: Thinning the lines to fit a smaller tag lets dots and crosses clog after washing, and a prohibition gets read as permission. - i-mode Emoji: Chasing fine detail inside the grid clogs the dots, and at the size of the text the figure no longer says what it is. ## 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.
Related entries
- Care Symbols 1958– / Style / Symbol Systems
Four figures, the tub, the triangle, the square and the circle, carry garment care across any border. Washing, bleaching, drying and ironing all compress onto a tag a few millimeters wide, information design worked at the smallest possible area.
- i-mode Emoji 1998-1999 / Style / Symbol Systems
One hundred and seventy six pictographs that tell faces, weather and things apart using only the placement of dots on a twelve by twelve grid. Shigetaka Kurita drew them for NTT DOCOMO's i-mode, and MoMA holds the original set.
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