Memphis Style Poster
A 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.
We made two examples: a build market in indigo, ochre and coral and an allotment open day in forest green, tomato and butter. Different worlds with the same four textures, each doing one job, and in both the figures are handing something over rather than posing together.
Each texture belongs to one kind of element only: dots on the figures, diagonal stripes on the props, a diamond grid only on the floor, and triangles only in the corners. The frame is the repeated phrase itself with no drawn box, and the title is sliced and offset as one shape. The sticker's wording can change and the title's slices are redrawn each time, so check both.
Generated for this library
Input
Event Vibary's build market
Title SHIP IT DAY
Sub one Saturday · twenty benches · everything you make is
yours
Border MADE BY DESCRIBING
Figures two people at a bench, one passing a glowing panel to
the other, who reaches with both hands
Props a laptop, printed cards, a mug, a rolled poster
Palette indigo ground · ochre, coral, mint · big letter V
Returned 1 poster · 2:3 · flat vector, heavy black outline
border MADE BY DESCRIBING repeating down both edges in small
caps, with short diagonal rules at the corners
title SHIP IT DAY across the top, geometric caps cut and
offset as one shape, two small icons set into the gaps
figures the pair mid-hand-off in the middle sixty per cent,
bodies built from flat blocks, dots on both of them and
nowhere else
props laptop, cards, mug and poster flanking them, every one
filled with diagonal stripes and no other texture
floor a diamond grid across the base, the only grid on the
page, with the letter V in mint laid over it
sticker one grinning face in the lower right with a small line
of guidance beside itYou fill in 7 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The event
- 2The title
- 3The subtitle
- 4The border phrase
- 5The figures
- 6The props
- 7The ground, the brights, and the big letter
Memphis Style Poster
What this makes
A 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.
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. Write the figures as an interaction — a hand-off, a reach, a lean — rather than as two portraits.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Check by texture: find every dotted thing on the page and confirm they are all the same kind of element. If dots appear on a figure and on the floor, the assignment slipped.
What you swap
- The event
- Vibary's build market
- The title
- SHIP IT DAY
- The subtitle
- one Saturday · twenty benches · everything you make is yours
- The border phrase
- MADE BY DESCRIBING
- The figures
- two people at a shared bench, one passing a glowing panel across to the other who reaches out with both hands
- The props
- a laptop, a stack of printed cards, a mug, a rolled poster
- The ground, the brights, and the big letter
- deep indigo ground · ochre, coral and mint as the brights · the big letter is a V
Before it runs
- Figures doing something to each other. Two people standing side by side gives the poster no centre, and this style has nothing else to fall back on.
- A short border phrase. It repeats down both edges, so anything long becomes a wall of text.
- Four textures at most, and the willingness to keep them apart. Letting dots appear on both a figure and a prop is what turns this style to soup.
When to reach for it
For a market, a fair, a club night, a campus week: something cheerful that has to work on a phone. The style piles on dots, triangles and stripes until nothing is distinguishable, and the cure is deciding what each pattern is for.
What changes
- One poster inside a border of repeating type, so the frame is made of words rather than of rules.
- Four geometric textures, each assigned to one class of element — a texture never appears on two kinds of thing, which is what keeps the noise readable.
- Flat vector figures mid-interaction with a heavy black outline on everything, so the busyness has one consistent drawing weight.
- A saturated clash palette on a single deep ground, with the letters at the base doing the anchoring.
- The title is cut and offset as one shape rather than decorated letter by letter, so it survives the surrounding riot.
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.
- Cut & Paste Event PosterA 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.
- 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.