Prompts · Minimal
Ten Minutes, One Colour
A timer, one colour family and a rule against undoing anything. The point is not the page you make in ten minutes — it is finding out which decisions you make twice.
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Constraints
Every published spread, supply note and prompt filed under Constraints.
8 published, newest first.
Prompts · Minimal
Spreads · Minimal
Two-Colour Minimal Spread
One spread, two colours, five elements. The discipline is not in removing things but in refusing to add a third tone when the page feels empty.
Prompts · Ephemera-led
Use Only Found Paper
For one spread, nothing may come from a shop. Everything must be paper that would otherwise have been thrown away, and it must be recognisable as what it was.
Spreads · Layered
Masking Tape Grid Spread
A hand-laid grid of masking tape divides the page into nine unequal cells, each holding one scrap — and the tape stays visible as the structure instead of being hidden under the paper.
Prompts · Layered
Exactly Seven Layers
Count every layer, including the base. Seven total, no more and no fewer, and the seventh must be something you would normally throw away.
Spreads · Minimal
White Space: One Clipping, One Word
One magazine clipping at 38 mm, one cut-out word at 11 mm, and 89% of the page left empty. A five-minute spread that is far harder than it sounds.
Spreads · Ephemera-led
Travel Receipt Confetti Spread
Forty small receipts cut into confetti-sized pieces and scattered, then selectively glued — 14 fixed, 26 left loose under a stitched acetate window.
Prompts · Ephemera-led
Palette Prompt: Faded Rose
Build a spread from four fixed hex values — #D9A5A0, #D8B15B, #8FA3B0, #E8DCC8 — with no pure white and no pure black anywhere on the page.
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