# Machine Art (マシン・アート) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.531 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/machine-art
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Machine Art, a style from Modern Design Movements, 1934.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: shooting a set of parts or tools by stripping every pattern out of the background and the fixtures and giving each object its own plinth, or selling an undecorated product on a page that leads with the form alone and holds the feature copy back. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Utilitarian factory parts set out one to a pedestal, spaced apart
- Mouldings on walls and ceilings screened over, leaving a background with no pattern in it
- The objects are springs, pans and instruments, things never made to be looked at
- Manufacturers' names standing where an artist's name would normally go

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: One plinth per object, evenly spaced, with nothing added to the background plane. Cover over any trim or moulding rather than working around it
- Type and lettering: Only the object's name and its maker, small, in one undecorated face. No adjectives
- Material and surface: Metal, glass and porcelain as they come from the factory. No paint and no pattern, so that tooling marks and sheen are all there is to see
- Colour: #F2F1ED carries the ground, #B9BEC2 is the colour the style is remembered by, #1E1F21 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: technique, calm, futurity

## What goes wrong

Assuming the work is done once the objects are undecorated leaves the room and the fixtures decorated, and the forms lose to the pattern around them.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/machine-art/design.md