A structured prompt template for generating vintage 1930s Art Deco travel posters with specific composition locks, color palettes, and landmark-focused designs.
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MAIN PROMPT
Create a dramatic vertical Art Deco travel poster featuring [CITY NAME] in the style of a 1930s luxury ocean-liner travel advertisement. Make the landmark immediately recognizable, monumental and collectible, with elegant geometric Deco styling.
FORMAT LOCK
Vertical 3:4 composition. Bold theatrical poster design. Strong diagonal movement from lower left to upper right. Upper third reserved for open sky, the pale cream disc and city name.
STYLE TRANSFER
Landmark-led composition: 70% recognizable architecture, 30% Art Deco stylization. Show the primary landmark from a dramatic low viewpoint, towering upward with converging perspective. Use streamlined monumental forms, geometric arcs, straight verticals, stepped details, speed lines and concentric rays.
DETAIL & COLOR
Primary landmarks: [ONE OR TWO LANDMARKS — describe their distinctive shape and appearance from below]. Secondary elements: [THREE TO FIVE SUPPORTING ELEMENTS, including a bridge, river, canal, road or shoreline creating diagonal movement]. Use six to eight cool desaturated colours tuned to the city, always with deep desaturated navy as the single shadow tone. Blues and teals dominate sky, water and shadows; warm colors only as restrained accents on illuminated planes. Flat printed color planes, museum-print desaturation, subtle even paper grain.
COMPOSITION LOCK
Place a pale cream disc behind the main landmark with clean radiating rays. Keep the disc cool and quiet, never sunset-like. At the upper centre, place only “[CITY NAME]” in uppercase geometric sans-serif with wide letter spacing and a single solid color. Preserve strong diagonal energy and monumental scale.
STYLE
1930s luxury-line Art Deco travel poster, sophisticated geometric design, theatrical hard-edged lighting, flat ink printing, collectible museum-poster aesthetic, clean contemporary finish.
NEGATIVE PROMPT
Yellow, mustard, ochre, gold, amber, orange sky, warm sunset, warm overall cast, soft gradients, photorealism, 3D rendering, neon, cartoon style, fake aging, distressed paper, sepia, brown filters, clutter, extra text, incorrect spelling, additional typography, logos, watermark.
TEXT LOCK
Exact spelling: “[CITY NAME]”. No text other than the city name.
ASPECT RATIO
3:4
