Cloisonné Enamel Badge
A cloisonné souvenir badge — gold wire, glass enamel, and the manufacturing law that decides whether it reads as metal or as a picture with gold lines drawn on it. Six fields.
We made two examples: a lit workshop window on a hexagon and a lighthouse on a shield, indigo and amber against slate and rust. In both, the sky, the water and the glass are built from flat bands with gold wire between them, never from shading.
Every colour is closed on all sides by gold, with no shading inside a cell, no wire stopping in mid-field, and nothing too small to fill with enamel. Depth comes from stacking flat tones, so avoid asking for things like a tree with a thousand leaves. The border motif tends to sit along the lower rim only instead of going all the way round, and the thickness of the gold rim varies.
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Commemorates Vibary's first build week, as a collectable pin
Centre a broad arched workshop window of nine lit panes,
seen straight on
Ring a stack of pattern cards left, a coiled cable
right, a crescent moon above
Border a repeating row of small squares along the lower
edge
Shape a rounded hexagon
Palette indigo, sage, bone and one amber, gold wire
Returned 1 badge · 1:1 · white ground, faint contact shadow
wire raised champagne gold, rounded, every line running
wire-to-wire or to the rim, none dead-ending
cells every colour closed on all sides; the sky four flat
bands rather than one gradient
centre the window largest, its nine panes nine separate cells
in two ambers
ring cards, cable and moon each in their own outlined cells
border the square row repeating cleanly, unbroken by the rim
enamel glossy, flat within each cell, one faint highlight
sweeping the whole faceYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1What it commemorates
- 2The centre
- 3The ring around it
- 4The border band
- 5The shape
- 6The palette
Cloisonné Enamel Badge
What this makes
A cloisonné souvenir badge — gold wire, glass enamel, and the manufacturing law that decides whether it reads as metal or as a picture with gold lines drawn on it. Six fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the six FIELDS lines. Describe the centre as flat shapes — 'three ranges in three tones' rather than 'misty mountains'.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the badge.
- Check it by tracing. Pick any colour in the middle of the badge and follow its edge all the way round: if you reach another colour without crossing gold, that region was painted rather than filled, and the run needs doing again.
What you swap
- What it commemorates
- Vibary's first build week, as a collectable pin
- The centre
- a broad arched workshop window of nine lit panes, seen straight on
- The ring around it
- a stack of pattern cards to the left, a coiled cable to the right, a crescent moon above
- The border band
- a repeating row of small squares, like a line of pixels, along the lower edge
- The shape
- a rounded hexagon
- The palette
- indigo, sage, bone and one amber, in champagne gold wire
Before it runs
- A subject that survives being flattened. Enamel cannot shade, so anything whose appeal is texture — fur, foliage, weather — has to be redrawn as flat shapes first.
- Three tiers of content. One centre, two or three seconds, one repeating border: fewer looks empty at this size and more turns to mush.
- Acceptance that the picture will be stylised. A photographic landscape in enamel is not a stricter version of this style, it is a different object.
When to reach for it
When a place, a season or an occasion needs a collectable object: a city pin, an event badge, a fridge magnet, a members' token. Templates in this style describe the craft accurately and then let the middle of the badge become a painting, because they never say why the wires are there.
What changes
- One souvenir badge on white: raised champagne-gold wire, glass enamel, a slight contact shadow and nothing else in frame.
- Every colour is a closed cell, so the object obeys the process that makes it — which is the whole difference between an enamel badge and a printed sticker.
- Depth comes from stacked flat tones rather than shading, the way real enamel builds a landscape.
- A minimum cell size keeps the artwork stylised, because a thousand-leaf tree cannot be filled with molten glass.
- A three-tier composition — one centre, a ring of seconds, a repeating border — that reads instantly at badge size.
Pairs with
- Art Toy 3D PortraitA soft 3D character portrait in the art-toy idiom — built around choosing a pose that cannot go wrong, because the one thing these renders always break is named and never solved. Six fields.
- Blind-Embossed Shopping BagA blind-embossed shopping bag photographed in raking light — where the pattern has no colour at all and exists only as shadow, so it has to fade the way real relief fades. Six fields.
- Brand Name Typography BoardGive it a brand name, get one silent black-and-white board back — the same name set fifteen ways, in five families of typographic levers.