Brutalist Editorial Poster

Poster · Brutalism · Swiss

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A1 poster, headline running off the edge·Nano Banana Pro
Two colour variant·Nano Banana Pro
Poster series laid out flat·Nano Banana Pro
Exhibition poster with date block·Seedream 4.5
Poster pasted on a concrete wall·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Ideogram, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A contemporary brutalist exhibition poster. Off white paper, a single oversized black grotesque headline set tight and running past the right margin, an exposed twelve column grid shown as thin rules, one hard cropped duotone photograph in the lower left, a dense block of small caption type, one vermilion accent rectangle. Flat offset print, no gradients, no shadows, generous negative space.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size
1024 x 1536
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Describe the grid as a visible element and the layout tightens immediately.
  • 2One accent colour. Two is a different style.
  • 3Say no gradients and no shadows explicitly. Models add both by default.

Things to try

Two colour risograph

fluorescent pink and blue inks with visible misregistration

All type

no image at all, the headline broken across four lines

Photocopied

high contrast, blown out blacks, a scanned photocopy texture

Pasted in the street

the poster wheat pasted onto concrete with torn edges

Music festival lineup

a dense name list in decreasing type sizes

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