Cut & Paste Event Poster
A loud cut-and-paste event poster where the materials are stacked in a fixed order — ground, shapes, photograph, ornament, type — so the noise has a structure under it. Seven fields.
We made two examples: a live build session in fluorescent indigo and a New Year sea swim in fluorescent orange. One bright colour each, the same five levels, and the photo torn out at the same place in the stack.
The five layers read from back to front: black to every edge, colour blocks and halftone circles, the torn photo with a ragged white edge, ornaments like stars or a checkerboard strip, and all the type on top with nothing covering it. Each material appears at one level only, and the date is printed just once. The number of stars varies, and the torn edge is sometimes cleaner than a real tear.
Generated for this library
Input
Event Vibary's first live build session
Word SHIPPED
Line one prompt · one hour · one page, live
Band VIBE CODING NIGHT
Date 18.07 - Saturday, doors at seven
Photo a room watching a wall-sized screen mid-render
Bright fluorescent indigo · motif: the play wedge
Returned 1 poster · 2:3 · black border, five layers
L1 ground black to all four edges, holding the poster in
L2 shapes flat indigo and white blocks, plus two halftone
circles - halftone lives only here
L3 photo the room cut out with hard jagged edges, sitting on
the shapes and under everything above
L4 ornament black stars, a checkerboard strip, small wedges -
checkerboard lives only here
L5 type SHIPPED across the top in heavy white sans, the line
reversed out of a black block, the pixel band along
the base, and the date badge - ringed once, not twice
verdict six materials, five levels, nothing floatingYou fill in 7 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The event
- 2The big word
- 3The line under it
- 4The bottom band
- 5The date
- 6The photograph
- 7The one bright, and the motif
Cut & Paste Event Poster
What this makes
A loud cut-and-paste event poster where the materials are stacked in a fixed order — ground, shapes, photograph, ornament, type — so the noise has a structure under it. Seven 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 seven FIELDS lines. Choose the photograph first — everything else is arranged around where it sits in the stack.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Check it by layer, not by taste: is anything on top of the type, is any material appearing at two levels, does the date appear once. Those three are what go wrong.
What you swap
- The event
- Vibary's first live build session
- The big word
- SHIPPED
- The line under it
- one prompt · one hour · one page, live
- The bottom band
- VIBE CODING NIGHT
- The date
- 18.07 — Saturday, doors at seven
- The photograph
- a room of people watching a wall-sized screen mid-render, shot from the back, cut out with hard edges
- The one bright, and the motif
- fluorescent indigo #5B5BD6 as the only bright · the motif is the play wedge
Before it runs
- One photograph that survives being cut out badly on purpose. A soft-edged or busy image turns to soup at this size.
- One bright colour. Two is what makes these posters unreadable, and every template in the genre quietly allows two.
- A word short enough to run edge to edge. Eight letters is comfortable, twelve is a squeeze.
When to reach for it
For a gig, a market, a fair, a club night: anything that has to shout from a wall or a feed. The style is easy to make busy and hard to make legible, and the difference is entirely whether the layers were ordered before they were drawn.
What changes
- One poster with five named layers in a fixed stacking order, so every element knows what it sits on and what may sit on it.
- Each material appears at exactly one layer — halftone in the shapes, checkerboard in the ornament, pixels in the type — so six textures read as a system rather than a scramble.
- The photograph is cut with hard edges and lives in the middle of the stack, never on top of the type and never behind the ground.
- One fluorescent colour does the pointing; black and white do the structure. A second bright is the thing that turns this style into mush.
- A date badge that says the date once, which the genre's own templates routinely get wrong by ringing it twice.
Pairs with
- Black & Gold Countdown PosterA black-and-gold countdown poster where one huge numeral holds the middle in clear air, and every other fact is said exactly once, in one of three bands. Six fields.
- Halftone Travel CollageA travel-poster collage where a dotted field above and a real photograph below meet along one seam — and the dots cross into the picture rather than stopping at its edge. Six fields.
- Memphis Style PosterA loud Memphis-style event poster bordered by repeating type, where each geometric texture belongs to exactly one kind of element — dots to figures, stripes to props, grid to the floor. Seven fields.