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 Generative Art: Seed and random range set, outputs laid side by side to inspect the spread
- Type
- Set in Generative Art's manner (Letters handled as coordinates and repetitions with the face itself fixed), and let Saul Bass Title Design's lettering (One face only, entrances and exits designed to the musical beat) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Generative Art's material (Lines assumed at a plotter's constant weight, tone made by overlap density); bring in exactly one thing from Saul Bass Title Design (Art built apart from the feature, few colors, one repeated motif).
- Colour
- Build on #fbfaea, #7a4ab8, #2c2e18 and admit one accent from #f3f3ee, #eca506, #1c1b16.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Generative Art A random range set too wide widens the gap between good and bad results and leaves a pile of output instead of a work.
- Saul Bass Title Design Decoration unrelated to the feature is not the form, since only the structure that summarizes the theme survives, and when moving the names becomes the point there is no time to read them.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Generative Art (technique, 1965-) and their accent from Saul Bass Title Design (style, 1955 to 1990s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Generative Art exists for: letting a machine make identifiers or one-off tickets that must all differ, or exhibitions or works where designing the rule is what is on show. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Generative Art - One simple element repeated to fill the field - Variants of a single rule shown side by side - Repetition drifting in angle and position - A density and precision no hand could reach Composition: Seed and random range set, outputs laid side by side to inspect the spread. Type and lettering: Letters handled as coordinates and repetitions with the face itself fixed. ## Accent comes from Saul Bass Title Design, used sparingly - Flat cut paper silhouettes - A palette held to a few colors - Uneven hand drawn capitals - Simple moves along straight lines Let one material quality come from it: Art built apart from the feature, few colors, one repeated motif. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #fbfaea, carry the structure in #7a4ab8 and #2c2e18, and let a single accent come from #eca506. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: technique, calm, play, exhilaration, luxury. ## What goes wrong - Generative Art: A random range set too wide widens the gap between good and bad results and leaves a pile of output instead of a work. - Saul Bass Title Design: Decoration unrelated to the feature is not the form, since only the structure that summarizes the theme survives, and when moving the names becomes the point there is no time to read them. ## 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
- Generative Art 1965- / Technique / Digital Art
A way of working in which the maker writes only the rule and the randomness, leaving the drawing to the machine. As in Nees's plotter work, the result is shown as several variants born of one rule.
- Saul Bass Title Design 1955 to 1990s / Style / Broadcast Design
Moves flat cut paper shapes and hand drawn capitals along simple straight paths in time with the music, stating the theme before the film begins.
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