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 Future Funk: Layer figures, city and type rhythmically
- Type
- Set in Future Funk's manner (Bold Japanese gothic plus Latin script accents), and let 70’s Retro's lettering (Round, heavy display type) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Future Funk's material (Pink, blue, yellow, VHS grain); bring in exactly one thing from 70’s Retro (Orange, ochre, dark brown; a touch of print misregistration).
- Colour
- Build on #24388f, #f04c9c, #ffd33d and admit one accent from #e9c768, #dd6a2f, #5f3426.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Future Funk Avoid unlicensed anime frames and surface-level consumption of the culture; clear the rights.
- 70’s Retro Making everything retro becomes a costume. Keep body text and controls contemporary.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Future Funk (style, 2010s) and their accent from 70’s Retro (style, 1970s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Future Funk exists for: instant joy for music and events, or A pop rereading of the urban night. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Future Funk - 80s anime - City pop - Vivid night views - Rapid collage Composition: Layer figures, city and type rhythmically. Type and lettering: Bold Japanese gothic plus Latin script accents. ## Accent comes from 70’s Retro, used sparingly - Fat curves - Wave forms - Orange and brown - Repeating stripes Let one material quality come from it: Orange, ochre, dark brown; a touch of print misregistration. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ffd33d, carry the structure in #f04c9c and #24388f, and let a single accent come from #dd6a2f. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: exhilaration, play, nostalgia, intimacy. ## What goes wrong - Future Funk: Avoid unlicensed anime frames and surface-level consumption of the culture; clear the rights. - 70’s Retro: Making everything retro becomes a costume. Keep body text and controls contemporary. ## 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
- Future Funk 2010s / Style / Digital Retro
Re-edits 1980s Japanese pop at high speed into dazzling euphoria.
- 70’s Retro 1970s / Style / Retro
Builds cheerful nostalgia from thick round shapes and earthy warm color.
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