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 Deconstructivism: Collide multiple grids
- Type
- Set in Deconstructivism's manner (Sever, duplicate and rotate the letters), and let Radical Architecture's lettering (Write in manifesto voice, short and flat, set beside the image as a note.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Deconstructivism's material (Translucent layers, cut surfaces, noise); bring in exactly one thing from Radical Architecture (Photomontage, flat black and white planes, mass produced furniture overwritten.).
- Colour
- Build on #dedbd3, #ff4e28, #29273e and admit one accent from #eae5d9, #d14a37, #24221f.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Deconstructivism Too heavy a cognitive load for interfaces. Keep experiments to heroes and set pieces.
- Radical Architecture Borrowing the giant grid imagery without naming what it criticizes turns a stance of doubt into futuristic wallpaper.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Deconstructivism (Style, 1980s–) and its accent from Radical Architecture (Style, late-1960s–1970s). Structural cues: Fragmentation; Tilt; Colliding layers; Unstable contours. Accent cues, used sparingly: Speculative cities; Anti-functionalism; Vast grids; Play and critique. Composition: Collide multiple grids. Type and lettering: Sever, duplicate and rotate the letters. Let one material quality come from the second style: Photomontage, flat black and white planes, mass produced furniture overwritten.. Mood: Rebellion, Futurism, Play. Color: build on #dedbd3, #ff4e28, #29273e with a single accent drawn from #eae5d9, #d14a37, #24221f. 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
- Deconstructivism 1980s– / Style / Avant-garde
Dismantles an achieved order and makes tension and instability the new structure.
- Radical Architecture late-1960s–1970s / Style / Modern Architecture
Objects to functionalism and consumer society, critiquing architecture's own premises with fictional cities, furniture, photographs and collage.
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