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 Belgian New Beat Graphics: Cross one large title over a processed figure or geometric form and pin numbers, times and coordinate-like details to the edge
- Type
- Set in Belgian New Beat Graphics's manner (Set the short name in narrow capitals or early-digital extended type, separating date and venue into small machine labels), and let New Rave Style's lettering (Offset a heavy geometric sans-serif in two fluorescents, returning body copy to black and white) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Belgian New Beat Graphics's material (Layer low-resolution scans, primitive vectors, airbrushed gradients and copier black, then print one acid signal color hard); bring in exactly one thing from New Rave Style (Layer fluorescent nylon, reflective tape, plastic beads, and cotton shirts over slim black clothing).
- Colour
- Build on #111116, #D9F22E, #3456A8 and admit one accent from #EE3FA1, #D9ED39, #32BFD1.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Belgian New Beat Graphics Do not call all Belgian club graphics New Beat. Record date, music, club or label provenance, and do not copy existing logos or flyers.
- New Rave Style Do not label all fluorescent rave dress New Rave. Name the mid-2000s indie-rock crossover and media coinage.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Belgian New Beat Graphics (style, 1987–1992) and their accent from New Rave Style (style, mid-2000s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Belgian New Beat Graphics exists for: reconstructing late-1980s Belgian club culture across print, moving image and dress rather than through sound alone, or giving slow heavy electronic events a hard nocturnal identity distinct from euphoric rave imagery. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Belgian New Beat Graphics - Processed figures, early CG and geometry layered in one image - One acid yellow, red, blue or metallic gradient driven against black - Condensed or extended sans-serif capitals used as a short large title - One club or label identity extended across flyer, record, bomber and T-shirt Composition: Cross one large title over a processed figure or geometric form and pin numbers, times and coordinate-like details to the edge. Type and lettering: Set the short name in narrow capitals or early-digital extended type, separating date and venue into small machine labels. ## Accent comes from New Rave Style, used sparingly - Fluorescent pink, yellow, green, and blue together - Slim pants with oversized shirt or windbreaker - Geometric print, glow sticks, and plastic beads - Sweaty direct-flash snapshots against a dark club Let one material quality come from it: Layer fluorescent nylon, reflective tape, plastic beads, and cotton shirts over slim black clothing. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #D9F22E, carry the structure in #3456A8 and #111116, and let a single accent come from #32BFD1. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: exhilaration, rebellion, futurity, play. ## What goes wrong - Belgian New Beat Graphics: Do not call all Belgian club graphics New Beat. Record date, music, club or label provenance, and do not copy existing logos or flyers. - New Rave Style: Do not label all fluorescent rave dress New Rave. Name the mid-2000s indie-rock crossover and media coinage. ## 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
- Belgian New Beat Graphics 1987–1992 / Style / Music Graphics
A late-1980s Belgian graphic lineage where New Beat's slow, heavy electronics met club print moving into early digital production, linking flyers, posters, records and label clothing through dark grounds, processed photography, primitive CG, short capitals and signal color.
- New Rave Style mid-2000s / Style / Subculture Style
A brief but recognizable mid-2000s meeting of indie rock and rave revival that joined fluorescent color, geometry, sportswear, DIY accessories, and direct-flash club photography around a slim rock silhouette.
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