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 Italian Bel Design: Concentrate the mechanism at one point and free the remaining silhouette
- Type
- Set in Italian Bel Design's manner (One logo only, set small and following the curve of the body), and let Space Age Design's lettering (Choose a rounded geometric sans and match its curves to the shells.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Italian Bel Design's material (Mix molded plastic, aluminium and marble, adding one high chroma color); bring in exactly one thing from Space Age Design (Molded plastic, foam, glowing milky panels, saturated single color paint.).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #eee9df, #eb5b3e, #5179a5.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Postwar Industrial Design, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Italian Bel Design When odd shapes and primary colors come first, the object grows awkward to hold and easy to break, reading as a prank rather than wit.
- Space Age Design Curves and vivid color alone read as cheap plastic, so unless mold seams and paint gloss are controlled the result looks like a toy.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Italian Bel Design (Style, 1950s–1970s) and its accent from Space Age Design (Style, 1957–early 1970s). Structural cues: Sculptural products; Bold color and wit; Alliances of firms and designers; Material experiment. Accent cues, used sparingly: Capsule forms; Molded plastic; Spheres; Vivid synthetic color. Composition: Concentrate the mechanism at one point and free the remaining silhouette. Type and lettering: One logo only, set small and following the curve of the body. Let one material quality come from the second style: Molded plastic, foam, glowing milky panels, saturated single color paint.. Mood: Luxury, Play, Exhilaration, Futurism. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #eee9df, #eb5b3e, #5179a5. 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
- Italian Bel Design 1950s–1970s / Style / Postwar Industrial Design
The golden age of industrial products made by postwar Italian industry and its designers, who added feeling and sculptural presence to functionalism. Castiglioni's lamps and Olivetti's machines exported the product as culture.
- Space Age Design 1957–early 1970s / Style / Postwar Industrial Design
Translates the hopes of the space race into capsule forms, spheres, molded plastic, vivid color and lightweight furniture.
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