Constructivist Paper CAI

Create raster visuals in one coherent direction: handmade angular paper collage, restrained Constructivist composition, dark scientific atmosphere, and systems-based storytelling.

Workflow

1. Identify the deliverable type, purpose, audience, aspect ratio, and exact size.
2. Read references/style-guide.md before making visual decisions.
3. For icons, compact interface marks, badges, or tactile object symbols, read references/visual-examples.md and inspect the images in examples/.
4. Read the matching section of references/prompt-patterns.md.
5. Preserve supplied titles, equations, labels, logos, and interface copy verbatim. Repeat exact text in the generation prompt and prohibit extra text.
6. Use image generation for raster art. Inspect existing images before using them as references or edit targets.
7. Generate for the requested aspect ratio, then export and verify the exact pixel dimensions locally.
8. Inspect at full size and intended viewing size. Check text, hierarchy, paper material, palette, accessibility, and series consistency.
9. Iterate with one targeted correction at a time.

Non-negotiable visual DNA

• Use deep navy-black paper as the primary field.
• Construct people, objects, and environments from fibrous angular paper planes.
• Render faces as absent or highly reduced; preserve identity through silhouette, hair, clothing, posture, and props.
• Use warm bone-white for paper figures and lettering.
• Reserve rusty vermilion for the central event, danger, impact, or one dominant symbol.
• Use desaturated teal, slate blue, dusty purple, and tiny warning-orange accents.
• Organize compositions with diagonals, wedges, circles, orbital rules, windows, and purposeful negative space.
• Keep screen-print misregistration, photocopy grain, torn edges, folds, and subtle lift shadows visible.
• Express ideas through connected visual systems rather than scattered decorative icons.

Deliverable rules

Posters and campaign visuals

Build an original composition with a strong diagonal path, dramatic scale contrast, integrated typography, and clear distance hierarchy. Do not imitate a specific historical poster.

Covers, thumbnails, and icons

Use one dominant subject, one action or idea, and at most one short text element. Favor bold silhouettes and remove narrative clutter. Compose for the target shape instead of cropping a poster.

Editorial and narrative illustrations

Use cinematic framing, faceless figures, cropped viewpoints, layered paper planes, and purposeful negative space. Make the visual argument or story legible without relying on decorative text.

Interfaces and information graphics

Use dark instrument panels, cold-white rules, broken circular scans, grids, nodes, and restrained state colors. Prioritize comprehension, accessibility, and real information hierarchy over decorative pseudo-code.

Typography

Use readable Constructivist/Cubist Chinese display lettering for titles: interlocking rectangles, trapezoids, wedges, and circular cuts with limited offset layers. Preserve correct character structure and reading order. Use narrow sans-serif or monospaced technical typography for body copy, captions, and interfaces.

Avoid

• Bright Pop Art and Ben-Day comic treatment
• Generic neon cyberpunk
• Glossy 3D or plastic materials
• Photorealistic portraiture
• Cute cartoon or chibi proportions
• Corporate flat illustration
• Static bilateral symmetry
• Decorative pseudo-code or unnecessary English
• Experimental Chinese lettering that becomes unreadable
• Copying a specific historical poster or living artist

Delivery

Save final artifacts in the requested location. Do not overwrite approved assets unless explicitly asked. Report the final path, dimensions, and prompt approach.