Cities Made by Hand — Travel Poster

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

location (text) · Required

Outputs

Travel_poster (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Create a premium vertical 4:5 handcrafted travel poster for ${location}.

Use the established “Cities Made by Hand” visual DNA. Automatically identify and visually interpret the most iconic and emotionally recognizable combination of architecture, streetscape, landscape, culture, mobility, and atmosphere associated with ${location}.

## Strict visual system

### 1. Typography
- Place the city name across the top in large, expressive black hand-painted brush lettering.
- Place the country name directly beneath it in small, widely tracked, elegant uppercase sans-serif lettering.
- Add a short poetic tagline at the bottom, written specifically for ${location}.
- Keep the typography placement and hierarchy consistent across the global series.

### 2. City world — papercraft
Construct the entire architectural and environmental world as sophisticated handcrafted mixed media, using:
- Layered paper architecture, visible paper grain and fibers, subtle torn and deckled edges, stacked depth, and delicate cut-paper layers.
- Restrained watercolor washes and fine, expressive black architectural ink lines.
- Physical micro-shadows between paper layers, handmade imperfections, and elegant editorial craftsmanship.

Make the result feel like a premium architectural miniature built from paper, not a children's craft project.

### 3. Signature vehicle — hand-sculpted clay
Automatically select the most culturally and visually iconic local mode of transport associated with ${location}. Render it as the poster's signature hero object and a recurring collectible design element across the global series. Give it:
- An intentionally handmade, sculpted-clay appearance with premium stop-motion miniature quality.
- Slightly exaggerated but recognizable proportions, soft hand-formed edges, subtle sculpting seams, restrained fingerprints, handmade surface variation, and slight asymmetry.
- Chunky, tactile wheels or moving components where appropriate, a strong physical contact shadow, and a highly recognizable local identity.

### 4. Human story
Include one or two naturally styled human characters walking, interacting, or experiencing the city. Keep them relatively realistic and expressive compared with the handcrafted environment; they must not look like clay. Use them to provide warmth, scale, emotional storytelling, and a sense of travel and discovery.

### 5. Composition
Maintain the same compositional DNA as the New York reference:
- **Top:** City name and country.
- **Midground:** A powerful local architectural or landscape landmark forming the visual anchor.
- **Left and right:** Layered local buildings, streetscape, or cultural architecture framing the scene.
- **Foreground:** A tactile street, path, square, waterfront, or local surface leading into the image.
- **One side:** The human story.
- **Opposite side:** The signature handmade-clay transport object.

Include one culturally specific foreground artifact, such as a street sign, flower stall, lantern, café object, hydrant, market element, local vegetation, or street furniture.

### 6. Local authenticity
Automatically infer and include authentic visual details from ${location}, including architecture, local color palette, climate, vegetation, transportation, street signs, urban textures, cultural objects, landscape, and atmosphere. Avoid generic tourist-poster clichés. Make the scene feel like a real moment inside the city, not a collage of landmarks.

### 7. Color system
Use a restrained, sophisticated palette based on the natural colors of ${location}. Keep the paper world relatively muted and harmonious. Where culturally appropriate, let the signature clay vehicle provide the strongest concentrated color accent.

### 8. Material hierarchy — never change
The image must clearly read as: **PAPER WORLD → HAND-SCULPTED CLAY ICON → HUMAN STORY**. This hierarchy is the permanent visual DNA of the series.

### 9. Series consistency
The poster must immediately feel like part of the same collection as New York, London, Mumbai, and Cape Town. Keep the vertical travel-poster format, typography hierarchy, handcrafted paper world, fine ink drawing, restrained watercolor, clay mobility icon, realistic human presence, tactile foreground, and poetic location-specific tagline consistent. Allow the architecture, climate, colors, landmark, transport, and local cultural details to change completely according to ${location}.

The final image should feel premium, collectible, cinematic, tactile, editorial, handcrafted, and globally recognizable as part of one unified travel-poster series.

Avoid generic AI gloss, a photorealistic CGI look, excessive visual clutter, plastic-looking papercraft, and uniform material treatment. Every layer must feel physically coherent and intentionally constructed.