Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Googie: Sweep the roof up on one side and glaze the corner facing traffic.
- Type
- Set in Googie's manner (Build the leaning script in neon and push it above the roofline.), and let Tiki Style's lettering (Menu lettering carved-looking like wood, lines set close together) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Googie's material (Neon tubing, polished stone and tile, thin steel columns set at angles.); bring in exactly one thing from Tiki Style (Bamboo, rattan and charred wood, lit only by flame and colored glass).
- Colour
- Build on #f0dfb5, #de5d3c, #3d83a6 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Googie This is commercial architecture exaggerated for car culture and visibility, not a pile of space-age motifs, and copying the shapes while underlighting the night leaves it loud by day and dark after dark.
- Tiki Style This is an American fantasy and not the living Polynesian and Micronesian cultures it borrows from, so hiding where the motifs came from and treating them as decor puts the venue in question.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Googie (Style, late-1940s–1960s) and its accent from Tiki Style (Aesthetic, 1934–1960s / revival). Structural cues: Upswept roofs; Giant neon; Boomerang shapes; Full glazing. Accent cues, used sparingly: Tiki-carving motifs; Bamboo and rattan interiors; Torches and flame; Tropical drink vessels. Composition: Sweep the roof up on one side and glaze the corner facing traffic.. Type and lettering: Build the leaning script in neon and push it above the roofline.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Bamboo, rattan and charred wood, lit only by flame and colored glass. Mood: Exhilaration, Play, Futurism, Nostalgia. Color: build on #f0dfb5, #de5d3c, #3d83a6 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Googie late-1940s–1960s / Style / Modern Architecture
Theatricalizes roadside commerce with exaggerated roofs, neon, glass and space-age shapes readable in an instant from a car.
- Tiki Style 1934–1960s / revival / Aesthetic / Pop
The Polynesia dreamed up by American bars and restaurants. Carved figures, bamboo, torches and mai tai glasses gave style to a postwar wish to escape. It is an imaginary South Seas, and it should be read together with its history of borrowing from Pacific cultures.
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