canvas-design

name	canvas-design
description	Create beautiful static visual art — posters, design pieces, cover art — as .png or .pdf, driven by a design philosophy. Use when the user asks for a poster, a piece of art, a design, or any static, design-forward visual. Create original work, never copying existing artists.

Canvas Design

Make an art object, not a decorated document. Establish a concise design philosophy internally, then express it as one highly visual .png or .pdf. Output is 90% visual, 10% essential text; do not create a separate manifesto unless the user asks for process documentation.

This is art-led — aesthetics lead. For a data/fact one-pager driven by numbers, use infographic.

Art direction

Invent an aesthetic movement, not a layout. Name it (1–2 words: "Brutalist Joy", "Chromatic Silence"). Write 4–6 concise paragraphs on how it manifests through space & form, color & material, scale & rhythm, composition & balance, visual hierarchy. Keep it generic enough to leave the expression room. Translate it into a palette, material/texture, compositional tension, scale contrast, and one recurring form before generating.

Examples of the register:

• "Concrete Poetry" — communication through monumental form: massive color blocks, sculptural typography (huge single words, tiny labels), Brutalist spatial tension. Text as rare gesture.
• "Analog Meditation" — quiet contemplation: paper grain, ink bleeds, vast negative space, whispered typography, Japanese photobook calm.
• "Geometric Silence" — pure order: grid precision, stark graphics, dramatic negative space, Swiss formalism. Structure communicates, not words.

The subtle reference

Identify the conceptual thread from the request and weave it invisibly into form/color/ composition — like a jazz musician quoting a song. Those who know feel it; everyone else sees a masterful abstract composition. Never announce it.

Step 2 — Express it (.png / .pdf)

Build with the interpreter. The image generator makes far richer art than hand-drawn code, so reach for it first:

• Rich / painterly / illustrative (default) → write a detailed art-direction prompt and await render(prompt, "art.png", quality="medium"). For a named look, read_skill image-styles and fold the matching fragment in. This register is mostly visual, so keep words minimal anyway; modern renderers spell short titles fine, but if a specific title or label must be exact you can composite it over the result with Pillow.
• Geometric / typographic / precise → when the piece is built on exact shapes, a strict grid, or type itself (Swiss / Brutalist / concrete-poetry registers), draw it with reportlab (PDF: precise placement) or Pillow / matplotlib (PNG: generative patterns, color fields, repeated marks) — code gives the precision diffusion can't.

Direction: museum/magazine quality, single page, design-forward. Favor repeating patterns, perfect shapes, dense accumulation of marks, a limited cohesive palette, sparse clinical typography as visual accent. Treat the abstract subject with the reverence of a scientific diagram. Typography is part of the art (mostly thin, design-forward). Nothing falls off the page; nothing overlaps; everything has breathing room — non-negotiable.

Finish

Check the result once for obvious cropping, overlap, or broken required text. Regenerate only when the artifact visibly misses the brief; deeper critique is an optional polish request. Multi-page work is a sequence only when the user asks for it.