Hand-Cut Linocut Travel Poster
Create a playful, imperfect travel poster for a customizable city, using bold cut-paper shapes, a hand-cut city title, and a locally iconic car.
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Create a bold tourist poster for ${city:ЛОНДОН} in a linocut or cut-paper style. Use a vertical 2:3 composition on warm ivory paper with visible handmade texture.
Choose five instantly recognizable landmarks of ${city}, prioritizing clear silhouettes. Simplify them into large, flat black cut-paper shapes with bold white negative-space details. Freely vary their scale for graphic impact. Arrange them in a loose, asymmetrical collage: three landmarks near the top, the city name in the center, and two landmarks near the bottom. Place one iconic local car in the lower foreground.
Render the city name as huge, uneven, hand-cut letters. Make the letters thick, irregular, slightly tilted, and tightly spaced so they interact with and overlap the landmarks rather than sitting apart as a conventional headline. Show the car in strict side profile, using one flat accent color that matches its real-world paint. Keep its windows black and depict structural details as simple white cutouts. Crop the car at the edge of the frame.
Style everything like a primitive linocut or screen print: rough edges, uneven ink coverage, dry-brush gaps, scattered dots, and imperfect registration. Use warm ivory paper, solid black, and one bright accent color, with small secondary warm details if desired. Keep the image flat, graphic, playful, and deliberately imperfect.
Avoid photorealism, perspective, hatching, gradients, fine architectural details, realistic proportions, dense backgrounds, people, sky, streets, shadows, legible text other than the city name, digital-looking typefaces, and decorative borders. Add a tiny black carved stamp in the lower-left corner.
Parameters
${city:ЛОНДОН}
city
Default: ЛОНДОН
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