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 Flowchart: Main path down one column, branches right and always rejoining
- Type
- Set in Flowchart's manner (A question inside every diamond, a verb first sentence in rectangles), and let Schematic Transit Diagram's lettering (Set station names at one constant angle in a single face and size) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Flowchart's material (Each branch labeled with its answer, terminals only at both ends); bring in exactly one thing from Schematic Transit Diagram (One color per line, white circles for interchanges, plain background behind).
- Colour
- Build on #ffffff, #86b11d, #40591e and admit one accent from #fbf5dd, #e52d3f, #245196.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Flowchart Mixing diamonds and rectangles without respecting their meanings erases the line between decision and process, and readers guess.
- Schematic Transit Diagram Trying to keep a little geographic accuracy breaks the angle rule, and the diagram ends up neither accurate nor easy to read.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Flowchart (layout, 1921–) and their accent from Schematic Transit Diagram (layout, 1933–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Flowchart exists for: getting a team to agree on a work procedure that branches, or surfacing branches and exceptions in a spec before implementation. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Flowchart - A grammar of shapes - The decision diamond - Arrows of flow - Start and end terminals Composition: Main path down one column, branches right and always rejoining. Type and lettering: A question inside every diamond, a verb first sentence in rectangles. ## Accent comes from Schematic Transit Diagram, used sparingly - Lines limited to 45 degrees - Evenly spaced stations - Color-coded lines - Independence from geography Let one material quality come from it: One color per line, white circles for interchanges, plain background behind. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ffffff, carry the structure in #86b11d and #40591e, and let a single accent come from #e52d3f. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: technique, trust, play, calm. ## What goes wrong - Flowchart: Mixing diamonds and rectangles without respecting their meanings erases the line between decision and process, and readers guess. - Schematic Transit Diagram: Trying to keep a little geographic accuracy breaks the angle rule, and the diagram ends up neither accurate nor easy to read. ## 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
- Flowchart 1921– / Layout / Diagrammatic Expression
The Gilbreths invented this process diagram for work analysis. Its grammar of shapes gives a diamond to every decision and a rectangle to every process, and by way of programming it became the common language for thinking in steps.
- Schematic Transit Diagram 1933– / Layout / Information Design
Discards geographic accuracy for horizontal, vertical and 45-degree lines with evenly spaced stations. Beck's 1933 London Underground diagram established it as the common language of transit maps worldwide.
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