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 New Wave: Shift the grid; hold several angles at once
- Type
- Set in New Wave's manner (Mix condensed, geometric and vertical setting), and let Scanimate's lettering (Heavy single letters lit from inside their own outline) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in New Wave's material (Yellow, red, blue, dots, thin rules); bring in exactly one thing from Scanimate (Scanlines and rainbow bleed, with color fringing left on the edges).
- Colour
- Build on #f1dfca, #f03d51, #3156af and admit one accent from #f5f0ff, #ff3ea5, #06060e.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- New Wave Don't multiply small decorations. Choose one starring deviation.
- Scanimate Layering glow and scanlines on top while the undulation itself still moves with the smooth interpolation of today's tools.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from New Wave (style, 1970s–1980s) and their accent from Scanimate (technique, 1969–1980s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing New Wave exists for: editorial heat for culture media, or adding surprise to serious content. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from New Wave - Irregular grid - Dots - High chroma - Rotated type Composition: Shift the grid; hold several angles at once. Type and lettering: Mix condensed, geometric and vertical setting. ## Accent comes from Scanimate, used sparingly - Glowing outlines - Electronic undulation - Rainbow glow - Scanline texture Let one material quality come from it: Scanlines and rainbow bleed, with color fringing left on the edges. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #f1dfca, carry the structure in #f03d51 and #3156af, and let a single accent come from #ff3ea5. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: play, rebellion, exhilaration, technique, nostalgia. ## What goes wrong - New Wave: Don't multiply small decorations. Choose one starring deviation. - Scanimate: Layering glow and scanlines on top while the undulation itself still moves with the smooth interpolation of today's tools. ## 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
- New Wave 1970s–1980s / Style / Counterculture
Keeps punk's freedom while re-editing color and grid with urban polish.
- Scanimate 1969–1980s / Technique / Broadcast Design
An analog video synthesizer that distorted images on a CRT electrically and in real time. It is the true source of the glowing, flying, undulating logos of 1970s and 80s television, and it carried the motion industry before digital.
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