Mid-century Catalogue

Retro · Catalogue · Retail

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Mid-century Catalogue, Products in a strict grid, warm print colour and a lot of small captions — Homeware page, six product grid·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, 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.

Make it yours

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

Prompt

A page from a 1961 department store catalogue. Six homeware products photographed on plain backgrounds and arranged in a strict grid, each with a small caption, a price and a product code beneath. Warm faded four colour printing on absorbent uncoated paper with visible ink spread and dot screen, a slightly greenish shadow tone. A simple headline in a friendly serif at the top. The page fills the frame with no surrounding surface.

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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 1365
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Absorbent uncoated paper is what gives the warm spread. Say it rather than asking for faded.
2The grid should be strict and boring. That is the charm.
3Captions and codes under each product complete the effect even if unreadable.