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 Factory Pomo: Build on horizontal and vertical beams, then collide one circle with one 45-degree line
- Type
- Set in Factory Pomo's manner (Combine stencil and geometric type; use numbers and arrows as structural lines), and let Memphis's lettering (A chunky geometric sans) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Factory Pomo's material (Finish painted steel, perforated metal, rubber, and plywood in clean bright spot colors); bring in exactly one thing from Memphis (Pink, yellow, teal, black speckles).
- Colour
- Build on #E6D33D, #2B7F90, #26282A and admit one accent from #f5cfda, #f4c62f, #2a9e9a.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Factory Pomo Rust and bare bulbs drift into later industrial interiors. Factory Pomo updates industrial quotation through bright CAD geometry and postmodern color.
- Memphis Don't stop at background pattern. Map the figures to navigation and units of meaning.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Factory Pomo (style, late 1980s–early 1990s) and their accent from Memphis (style, 1980s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Factory Pomo exists for: turning factory signs into optimistic information-age symbols in retail or exhibitions, or showing early CAD’s influence across furniture, signage, and print. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Factory Pomo - Gears, bolts, beams, and arrows reduced to geometry - Black and safety yellow expanded with red, blue, and turquoise - CAD-perfect circles and diagonals over old factory lettering - Exposed structure converted into decorative repetition Composition: Build on horizontal and vertical beams, then collide one circle with one 45-degree line. Type and lettering: Combine stencil and geometric type; use numbers and arrows as structural lines. ## Accent comes from Memphis, used sparingly - Zigzags - Small figures - Pastel plus primary - Speckles Let one material quality come from it: Pink, yellow, teal, black speckles. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #E6D33D, carry the structure in #2B7F90 and #26282A, and let a single accent come from #f4c62f. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: technique, play, futurity, exhilaration. ## What goes wrong - Factory Pomo: Rust and bare bulbs drift into later industrial interiors. Factory Pomo updates industrial quotation through bright CAD geometry and postmodern color. - Memphis: Don't stop at background pattern. Map the figures to navigation and units of meaning. ## 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
- Factory Pomo late 1980s–early 1990s / Style / Industrial and Spatial Design
A brief late-1980s and early-1990s postmodern style that reassembled factory safety graphics, WPA, Constructivism, and Bauhaus through smooth CAD geometry and Memphis quotation. Industrial signs become bright information-age stage sets rather than preserved relics.
- Memphis 1980s / Style / Pop
Laughs off functionalism and enjoys the dissonance of shape and color.
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