{
"style_name": "Material Plinths",
"style_slug": "red-band-vertical-word-plinth-poster",
"canvas": "9:16 tall poster, bone paper #EDE5D2 with grain and ink speckle; one vertical red #C9271E band ~40% wide, flush left or right",
"color": {
"rule": "bone, red, black only; the photograph is monochrome cutout; desaturated olive plants allowed at the edges; ONE red fabric object in the pile is the only warm material",
"band_logic": "the red band holds the vertical word and sits behind the figure's upper body"
},
"typography": {
"vertical_word": "one verb, stacked ONE LETTER PER ROW down the red band, ultra-heavy squared caps, ink black with at most one cream knockout letter; letters may crop at top and bottom",
"kicker": "a two-line lockup on the paper side: location line in black + three-word instruction in red",
"microcopy": "monospaced columns — field log, coordinates, elevation, scale, date, sheet number; every value internally consistent",
"manifesto": "one micro-paragraph in the trade's voice, 6–9 clipped sentences max (MATERIAL IS INFORMATION. / A STAGE ISN'T FOUND. ITS BUILT.)",
"glyphs": "one dot-grid patch, one outlined circle, one plus mark — fixed kit, nothing else"
},
"figure_system": {
"figure": "one worker in black-and-white cutout, standing or kneeling ON a plinth built from their own working stock, mid-task or surveying the distance; tool in hand — ruler, set square, pen, tape measure",
"plinth_rule": "the pedestal must be the trade's real material: folded survey maps / cardboard models and stone / rock with specimen board / stage decks and cinder blocks",
"banner_rule": "behind the head, one black faceted shape folded from the trade's own material — map kite, paper starburst, shade sail, stage backdrop",
"red_object": "one red fabric element grounds the pile: printed tarp, crumpled paper mass, duffel bag"
},
"design_rules": [
"the figure never overlaps the vertical word by more than one letter",
"all data plausible and cross-consistent — the coordinates match the elevation, the scale matches the model",
"no gradients, no drop shadows; depth comes from cutout layering and paper grain",
"the word is a verb of making; the kicker is an instruction"
],
"swap_variables": {
"trade": "city surveyor / model-maker architect / field botanist / stage builder",
"vertical_word": "ALIGN / BUILD / ROOT / LEVEL",
"plinth_stock": "survey maps + tarp / cardboard models + stone / rock + specimen board / stage decks + blocks",
"banner": "map kite / paper star / shade sail / backdrop flag",
"kicker": "CITY FIELD · FIND THE PATH / MODEL NOTE · MAKE THE EDGE / SPECIMEN INDEX · HOLD THE GROUND / SET PLAN 12 · THAT'S THE LINE",
"manifesto": "traverse-observe-record-repeat / material is information / collect-preserve-observe-return / measured-adjusted-rechecked-held"
}
}
