Numbered Modernist Travel Poster
A modernist travel poster built to be the second of forty — a cut-out landmark, the city set enormous behind it, and a numbered index line that only makes sense as part of a run. Six fields.
We made two examples: number 02 and number 07, built to the same fixed list: one bone background, one grotesque typeface, the index at the upper right and the caption at a third of the width. Only the subject, photograph, caption and accent change, which is what turns two posters into a series rather than a resemblance.
You get a hard-cut photo window on flat bone, the name set enormous with the photograph passing between two letters so each one stays whole, one coloured arc, and the index at the upper right. The fixed and free lists are not printed on the poster. Check the spelling of the name: mistakes appear exactly where the window crosses a letter's stroke, which is why the overlap must fall between letters and never across one.
Generated for this library
Input
Subject VIBARY
Local the library district · built on the open web
Number 02 of 40
Photo a tall studio window at dusk, one lit desk behind it,
cut out along the frame's edges
Caption A place assembled out of descriptions, where the plans
stay visible after the thing is built.
Fixed bone ground · one grotesque · number upper right ·
caption at a third width
Returned 1 poster · 3:4 · warm bone, no texture, nothing aged
photo the window cut hard against the ground, its edges sharp
and its interior light intact, sitting slightly left of
centre and overlapping the type
type VIBARY set enormous in the grotesque, running behind the
photograph and reappearing to its right, the local line
small beneath the cut
number 02 / 40 at the upper right in the smallest size on the
page, aligned to the margin
caption three lines at a third of the width, low left, ragged
right, set at reading size
colour bone ground, one indigo block behind the photograph's
lower edge, and the picture's own colours - nothing elseYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The subject, set large
- 2The local name and the region
- 3The number in the run
- 4The photograph, hard-cut
- 5The caption
- 6What holds still, and what may change
Numbered Modernist Travel Poster
What this makes
A modernist travel poster built to be the second of forty — a cut-out landmark, the city set enormous behind it, and a numbered index line that only makes sense as part of a run. 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. Write the last one first — deciding what holds still is the design, and everything after it is decoration.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- For the next in the run, change only the subject, the photograph, the caption and the number, and leave the fixed list untouched. Two posters that share it will hang together; two that do not are a coincidence.
What you swap
- The subject, set large
- VIBARY
- The local name and the region
- the library district · built on the open web
- The number in the run
- 02 of 40
- The photograph, hard-cut
- a tall studio window at dusk with one lit desk behind it, cut out cleanly along the frame's edges, no background left attached
- The caption
- A place assembled out of descriptions, where the plans stay visible after the thing is built.
- What holds still, and what may change
- fixed: a warm bone ground, one grotesque family, the number at the upper right, the caption at a third of the width · free: the accent colour, the geometry, the crop
Before it runs
- A subject that photographs as a silhouette. A hard cut needs an edge; haze and sky do not survive it.
- A run in mind. The number is a promise, and '01 of 1' is a poster pretending to be a series.
- The discipline to leave the fixed parts alone on the second one. A series is defined by what does not change, and that is the rule everyone breaks by poster three.
When to reach for it
When one poster is really a series: cities, seasons, releases, chapters. The genre's templates describe a single beautiful sheet and leave out the thing that makes a set — which parts hold still while the subject changes.
What changes
- One clean modern poster: a hard-cut photograph of the subject, its name set enormous behind or through it, on a pale ground with no vintage texture anywhere.
- Four elements are declared fixed across the whole series — the ground, the type family, the number's corner, the caption's width — so a second poster sits beside the first without adjustment.
- The photograph is cut, never faded: a crisp silhouette against flat colour, which is what stops the style sliding into stock-photo softness.
- The number is set as an index, small and unmissable, because a series without visible counting is just a folder.
- Everything else — the accent colour, the geometry, the crop — is declared free to change, so twenty posters share a system without repeating a picture.
Pairs with
- 8-Bit Sticker Title CoverAn 8-bit title in white on a dark pixel-grid screen, with three neon sticker tags stuck crooked underneath and a hand-drawn face in the corner. Five fields.
- 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.
- Black Big-Word Quote PosterMatte black, white type, nothing else — a thin quote holding the top against one enormous rounded word below, with the three sizes fixed by ratio rather than by eye. Five fields.