Only the Shapes You Named
A studio poster built from flat geometric primitives with editorial type ranged around it — carrying exactly the elements you listed and inventing no extra ones, no handles and no numbers. Six fields.
Two runs of the same template. A desk built from four primitives beside a quayside built from four others — five services against four in one, four against four in the other, neither column rounded up to match its neighbour. Both footers carry a single date and nothing else.
Generated from this template with the fields shown above — a half-circle shade on a bar, a rounded rectangle, a cylinder with an arc handle and leaves in a trapezoid pot, assembled on one ground line. Five items in the left column and four in the right, exactly as given, and a footer holding one date. The reference's baseline was given four playground elements and printed five, inventing a category to square the column against its five-item neighbour, and filled its footer with three social handles and an issue number that nobody supplied. A handle invented to finish a layout can belong to a real account, which is what makes that particular slot worth guarding. It also cut the studio name in half against the top edge. This run needed a second attempt for two reasons of its own: the first came back on a black ground with every black label invisible against it, and the second run printed this template's own name as its tagline, because the fields gave no tagline and the nearest heading to hand is the one above the instructions.
Generated for this library
Input
Studio DESIGN MORO - what should we design?
Subject a playground: red tent as a triangle on a
rectangle, yellow slide as a curve, blue climbing
frame as a spoked circle, green seesaw as a bar on
a triangle
Left branding · poster editorial · package · character
· logo
Right tent · slide · climbing frame · seesaw
Footer since 2021 - no handles, no URLs, no issue number
Palette near-white, red, yellow, blue, green, black line
Returned 1 poster · 3:4 · near-white, four colours, black line
centre the four pieces of equipment assembled as one group,
each made of the primitive it was given
columns five on the left, four on the right - the counts
given, not rounded up to match each other
footer one date, a rule above it, and nothing else
margin the studio name fully inside the top edge, not
clipped by it
line one black weight on every shape, flat fills, no
gradients and no shadowYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The studio name and the question
- 2The subject, and the shapes it is built from
- 3The left column — exactly these and no more
- 4The right column — exactly these and no more
- 5The footer — only what you actually have
- 6The palette
Only the Shapes You Named
Produce ONE image, 3:4 portrait: a flat geometric studio poster. Follow every line. Replace only the FIELDS block; everything after it is fixed.
First — do you have the fields?
If any field below still has braces around it, stop and ask. Put all the questions in one short message, and show the example under each one so they can see the shape of a useful answer. Wait for the replies, then draw. Never fill a brace yourself: a value you invented is a value nobody asked for, and it will look exactly as considered as the ones they did give you.
Ask in whatever language they are writing to you in. Translate the questions and the examples; do not make someone read English to tell you what they want.
The examples are only examples. If someone answers a question, use their answer; never fall back to the example because you prefer it.
If the fields are already filled in, ignore this and carry on.
Fields — replace these six lines only
- The studio name and the question: {a name, and a line}
- The subject, and the shapes it is built from: {each element, and its primitive}
- The left column — exactly these and no more: {a list}
- The right column — exactly these and no more: {a list}
- The footer — only what you actually have: {real details, or none}
- The palette: {a ground, three or four colours, and the line}
The no-topping-up law
This layout has two side columns and a footer, and all three are shapes that want filling. That is what makes it dangerous.
Each column carries exactly the items the fields list. If one has five entries and the other four, they stay five and four. A reference run of this style was given four playground elements and printed five, inventing a category to square the column — a heading that looked entirely at home and that nobody had asked for.
The footer carries only details the fields supply. No invented handles, no URLs, no issue or edition numbers, no dates. The same run filled its footer with three social accounts and a number, all plausible, none given. A handle invented to finish a poster can belong to a real person, and the poster then points at them.
If the fields give a date and nothing else, the footer holds a date and nothing else.
The primitive law
Every element is built from the primitive the fields name it with. A tent is a triangle on a rectangle. A slide is one curve. A climbing frame is a circle with spokes. A seesaw is a bar across a triangle.
The drift is toward illustration: a scalloped awning appears, then an arched door, then a little round window, and the poster stops being made of shapes. Ask of each element whether you could describe it in two primitives. If not, simplify it until you can.
Elements are assembled into one group at the centre, overlapping and sitting on a shared ground line, not scattered.
The type
- The studio name small at the very top, and beneath it the question set very large in a geometric sans — the biggest thing on the page, two lines.
- The two columns down the left and right edges: a small heading, a rule, then each item with a simple line icon above its label.
- A tagline centred below the artwork — but only if the fields supply one. If they do not, leave the space empty. Never use the name of this template: an unsourced tagline slot gets filled with whatever heading is nearest to hand, and the one above these instructions is the nearest of all.
- The footer: a full-width rule, then whatever the fields give, spaced evenly.
Everything sits inside a clear margin. This layout puts the studio name hard against the top edge, and a reference run cut it in half. Hold a margin on all four sides and place every word inside it.
Colour and line
The ground is near-white — a pale warm off-white, never black, never dark, never a saturated colour. Every label on this poster is set in black, so a dark ground makes the whole thing unreadable while looking deliberate. Three or four saturated primaries — red, yellow, blue, green — as flat fills, with one black outline weight on everything. No gradients, no shadows, no texture, no 3D. A few tiny black marks — a star, a dot grid, a wave, an arrow — may sit in the empty areas.
Never
- ✕ an extra item added to a column to balance it
- ✕ an invented handle, URL, number or date in the footer
- ✕ an element that needs more than two primitives to describe
- ✕ elements scattered rather than assembled into one group
- ✕ any word clipped by the frame
- ✕ a dark or black ground
- ✕ the name of this template used as a tagline
- ✕ gradients, shadows, texture or 3D
- ✕ more than four colours besides the black line
The result
A poster that could hang in a studio window: a subject you can name the shapes of, two honest columns, and a footer that says only what somebody actually knew.
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. Name the primitive for each element in the second — triangle, arc, spoked circle — because that naming is what stops the shapes drifting back into illustration.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Count the columns against your own lists before shipping, and read the footer. An extra entry or a handle you did not write was invented to fill space.
What you swap
- The studio name and the question
- DESIGN MORO — what should we design?
- The subject, and the shapes it is built from
- a playground: a red tent as a triangle on a rectangle, a yellow slide as a curve, a blue climbing frame as a spoked circle, a green seesaw as a bar on a triangle
- The left column — exactly these and no more
- branding · poster editorial · package · character · logo
- The right column — exactly these and no more
- tent · slide · climbing frame · seesaw
- The footer — only what you actually have
- since 2021 — and no handles, no URLs, no issue number, because I have none to give
- The palette
- near-white ground, red, yellow, blue, green, black line
Before it runs
- A subject that survives being simplified. Anything whose charm is in its detail loses everything at this level of reduction.
- Column contents you actually have. The layout wants tidy lists, and a column with four things in it is fine — a fifth invented to fill the space is not.
- Restraint about the footer. It is designed to hold contact details, which is exactly why it must hold only real ones.
When to reach for it
When a subject can be reduced to shapes: a studio's own poster, a service list, a product range, a workshop. Templates in this style give you tidy side columns to fill and the run quietly tops them up — an extra category here, a plausible social handle there.
What changes
- One bright modernist poster: a subject assembled from circles, triangles, arcs and bars, on near-white, with black outlines throughout.
- Side columns carrying exactly the items you listed — no fifth entry invented to balance a column of four.
- No fabricated handles, URLs, issue numbers or dates, since a plausible handle on a poster can belong to a real account.
- Type ranged around the edges inside a stated margin, so nothing is clipped by the frame.
- A restricted primary palette with black line, which is what keeps the shapes reading as shapes.
Pairs with
- Bolted to the SkyA mascot built as real signage — a face on a plate, one wider name plate under it, and visible hardware holding both to the pole. Six fields.
- Cut, Not FilledA copperplate-engraved city poster in one ink — where every tone is line density, nothing on the page is a flat fill, and the bare paper is a shape rather than a margin. Six fields.
- Every Bar Is a MultipleA barcode poster in two colours — with the code built on a base module, guard bars and a numeral row, so it reads as a scanned object rather than a stripe field. Five fields.