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 Records Style: One unrelated plate at the center with the surround left silent
- Type
- Set in Factory Records Style's manner (Set small at the edge so neither title nor artist takes the stage), and let New Wave's lettering (Mix condensed, geometric and vertical setting) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Factory Records Style's material (Industrial color charts and special finishes borrowed, the print spec treated as work); bring in exactly one thing from New Wave (Yellow, red, blue, dots, thin rules).
- Colour
- Build on #ffe8b6, #6ab7ab, #060606 and admit one accent from #f1dfca, #f03d51, #3156af.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Factory Records Style An unrelated plate chosen without necessity reads as mere suggestiveness and leaves the listener with nothing to remember.
- New Wave Don't multiply small decorations. Choose one starring deviation.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Factory Records Style (style, 1978–1992) and their accent from New Wave (style, 1970s–1980s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Factory Records Style exists for: music or exhibition promotion that withholds explanation and leaves only resonance, or making numbering and specification itself the way a brand speaks. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Factory Records Style - Refusal to explain - Borrowed imagery from other fields - Restrained typography - Catalogue numbers as institution Composition: One unrelated plate at the center with the surround left silent. Type and lettering: Set small at the edge so neither title nor artist takes the stage. ## Accent comes from New Wave, used sparingly - Irregular grid - Dots - High chroma - Rotated type Let one material quality come from it: Yellow, red, blue, dots, thin rules. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ffe8b6, carry the structure in #6ab7ab and #060606, and let a single accent come from #f03d51. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: rebellion, calm, luxury, play, exhilaration. ## What goes wrong - Factory Records Style: An unrelated plate chosen without necessity reads as mere suggestiveness and leaves the listener with nothing to remember. - New Wave: Don't multiply small decorations. Choose one starring deviation. ## 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 Records Style 1978–1992 / Style / Music Graphics
At the Manchester label Saville made sleeves that refuse to explain the music. Borrowed industrial color charts, classical paintings and waveform diagrams turned post-punk's intelligent void into a style.
- New Wave 1970s–1980s / Style / Counterculture
Keeps punk's freedom while re-editing color and grid with urban polish.
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