Use case: stylized-concept
Asset type: 16:9 editorial article header illustration for Turing Station

Primary request:
Create one original, title-first Civic Assembly editorial illustration for:

"[HEADLINE]"

A viewer must understand this visible claim without reading a caption:

"[TITLE CLAIM]"

ARTICLE INTERPRETATION

Core point:
[CORE POINT]

Article tension:
[DECISIVE TENSION]

Selected scene direction:
[SCENE DIRECTION]

Scene:
[MONUMENTAL OBJECT + HUMAN ACTION + PHYSICAL CAUSE + VISIBLE EFFECT]

Article-specific proof:
[ONE CONCRETE DETAIL THAT DISTINGUISHES THIS ARTICLE]

Title proof:
[THREE OR FOUR VISIBLE ELEMENTS THAT ILLUSTRATE THE HEADLINE]

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SELF-CONTAINED CIVIC ASSEMBLY STYLE LOCK
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OVERALL ART DIRECTION

Create a premium European editorial illustration that looks like an imagined 1960s public-infrastructure poster made for a contemporary publication.

The image depicts complex technology as monumental civic machinery that ordinary people can inspect, operate, open, connect, redirect or repair.

The illustration must feel:
- informed;
- human;
- constructive;
- serious;
- tactile;
- optimistic through visible human agency.

Avoid a futuristic, corporate or software-product aesthetic.

SIGNATURE COMPOSITION

- Exact 16:9 landscape composition.
- Warm Paper background with generous open space.
- One monumental mechanical structure occupies 55-70% of the canvas.
- The mechanism may crop through one or two outer edges.
- Use a low or eye-level three-quarter viewpoint.
- Keep the horizon low and quiet.
- Preserve at least 25% empty background.
- Place the main action inside the central 80% safe area.
- Make the central action readable at 320 px width.
- Use one focal action and one visual consequence.
- Do not create a collage or a collection of separate symbols.

SCALE

Create radical scale contrast.

The civic mechanism towers over the people. Human figures occupy only 2-5% of the frame height.

The figures must cause the main change. They may:
- open a cover;
- move a coupling;
- install a component;
- redirect a conduit;
- operate a lever;
- inspect an exposed mechanism;
- fit one part onto another.

Do not use decorative workers who have no effect on the scene.

HUMAN FIGURES

- Use small, stylized human silhouettes.
- Give them natural working postures.
- Use plain contemporary workwear or understated everyday clothing.
- Keep faces absent or reduced to minimal features.
- Show calm concentration.
- Avoid panic, celebration, helplessness or theatrical poses.
- No giant hands.

FORM LIBRARY

Construct the monumental object from two to five large, mechanically understandable solids.

Allowed forms:
- thick rounded beams;
- elongated capsules;
- half-cylinders;
- drums;
- rollers;
- broad conduits;
- U-shaped bends;
- collars;
- hinges;
- faceplates;
- canopies;
- sockets;
- platforms;
- structural levers.

Use broad, weight-bearing forms with soft industrial corners.

The object should resemble public infrastructure, an analogue machine or a physical service mechanism.

Keep the construction simple enough to understand at a glance.

Avoid:
- intricate pipes;
- random floating components;
- thin technical linework;
- complex factory scenery;
- weapon-like silhouettes;
- decorative machinery;
- meaningless geometric abstraction.

DEPTH AND LIGHT

Use flat editorial masses with limited dimensional shading.

- No gradients.
- No glossy reflections.
- No dramatic cinematic lighting.
- No realistic metal rendering.
- No neon.
- No glow.
- No transparent glass effects.

Create depth through:
- overlapping solid forms;
- simple cast shapes;
- restrained tonal ink density;
- scale;
- oblique cropping.

The image may feel dimensional, but it must remain a printed editorial illustration.

PRINT TEXTURE

Apply a consistent analogue print surface across the full image:

- dry screenprint pigment;
- waxy lithographic ink;
- uncoated paper fibres;
- fine grain;
- soft ink dropout;
- restrained speckling;
- slight edge wear;
- subtle local misregistration.

Keep silhouettes clean and readable.

Texture should feel embedded in the pigment. Do not apply a generic noise filter over the completed image.

Avoid:
- torn-paper collage;
- watercolor;
- pencil sketching;
- oil paint;
- digital airbrushing;
- smooth vector perfection;
- heavy distressed effects.

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TURING STATION COLOR SYSTEM
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Use exactly three or four colors from this palette:

Signal Red: #DD3716
Warm Paper: #D1CABD
Machine Black: #272727
Magnetic Tape: #AC936E
Terminal Green: #84BC50
Relay Blue: #3255A4

COLOR ROLES

Warm Paper:
- normally the background;
- may also form blank paper, a cover or a human-facing surface.

Machine Black:
- main structure;
- internal mechanics;
- silhouettes;
- conduits.

Choose one supporting color:
- Magnetic Tape for analogue, institutional or telephone subjects;
- Relay Blue for technical systems, transformation or large machine bodies;
- Terminal Green for repair, access or constructive progress.

Signal Red:
- use once;
- apply it only to the part that causes or exposes the article's main change;
- suitable uses include one hinge, lever, coupling, spacer, seam, open route or transfer arm;
- the red component must have a mechanical function.

Do not use Signal Red as a decorative dot.
Do not scatter small red accents throughout the image.

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TURING TAPE DETAIL
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One short/long interval rhythm may appear as:
- physical perforations;
- spacing between structural blocks;
- a conduit seam;
- blank tape passing through rollers;
- alternating supports.

The rhythm must carry material or mechanical meaning.

Use plain rectangles and empty gaps.
Do not create letters, numbers, binary code or pseudo-writing.

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ARTICLE AND TITLE RULES
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The image must illustrate the headline's main noun and verb.

Make the title claim physical.

Examples:
- "reveal" becomes opening a machine cover;
- "copy" becomes one input producing several identical outputs;
- "transfer management" becomes moving a control linkage from people to a machine;
- "become human" becomes fitting a human-facing surface to a visible technical system.

Use one article-specific proof detail to prevent a generic AI illustration.

The scene should remain understandable without:
- the headline;
- a caption;
- a logo;
- an explanatory symbol.

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MOOD
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Mood:
[EMOTIONAL REGISTER]

Maintain an informed, premium and constructively serious tone.

Show people who can inspect or influence technology.

For threatening subjects, depict the mechanism and its scale without horror imagery. Preserve human agency through one readable action.

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HARD CONSTRAINTS
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No text.
No letters.
No numbers.
No captions.
No labels.
No logos.
No wordmarks.
No watermarks.
No pseudo-text.
No pseudo-code.

No interfaces.
No dashboards.
No UI cards.
No charts.
No arrows.
No diagrams.
No binary rain.
No circuit-board backgrounds.
No glowing brains.
No generic AI orbs.
No humanoid robots.
No generic robot heads.
No server racks.

No shields.
No padlocks.
No warning triangles.
No money symbols.
No weapons.
No disaster spectacle.

No photorealism.
No glossy 3D rendering.
No gradients.
No neon.
No lens effects.
No cinematic concept-art lighting.

No more than four palette colors.
No second metaphor.
No second focal action.
No decorative components.
No helpless or cowering figures.

Topic-specific factual constraints:
[FACTUAL LIMITS]

Topic-specific clichés to reject:
[FORBIDDEN CLICHES]

OUTPUT

Generate one native 1672 x 941 PNG.

The image must work as:
- a website article header;
- a newsletter image;
- a source image for social crops.

Do not add typography.
Do not perform manual visual post-production.