01 / Overview
Feels scientific, sensory, trust, with a deliberate rather than generic personality.
Signature move
A plant specimen and its extraction or performance data share one calibrated plate.
- Intensity
- restrained
- Versatility
- 4 / 5
- ID
botanical-laboratory
02 / Example art
Akar Trace
Original artwork establishes the direction's visual language before it is translated into an interface.
03 / Website example
Try the page as a working experience
Explore this responsive page directly inside the catalog. Its primary navigation, controls, and interactions are live; open it full screen to experience the original composition.
Interactive page
What you can try
- Sample range: Sample library and ingredient decisions.
- Capabilities: Engagement types and boundaries.
- Applications: Beverage contexts for materials.
- Evidence: Sample structures and interpretation limits.
- Method: Path from discovery to handover.
- Project brief: Configure an engagement scope.
04 / Fit
Suitable for
Suitable for
beauty / food / wellness / agriculture / biotech / beverage
Business goals
prove / desire / learn / trace
A strong choice when
Strong when beauty, food, wellness, agriculture need to prove, desire, learn through a memorable but repeatable visual system.
Avoid when
Avoid when the brief needs complete visual neutrality or when this direction would compete with essential information and actions.
05 / Design system
Design system
Rules that should remain coherent as content, devices, and business needs change.
- 01Composition
- Specimen plates, ingredient relationships, formulation bands, and sensory close-ups share exact scales.
- 02Hierarchy
- Make the signature move the first organizing decision, then reveal supporting information through stable scale, alignment, and sequence.
- 03Typography
- Refined scientific sans or serif with excellent ingredient, unit, and source handling.
- 04Color
- Pigments derived from real ingredients plus clean lab neutrals and a non-green counterpoint.
- 05Imagery
- Specific species, farm, process, microscopic structure, and finished product shown truthfully.
- 06Material
- Pressed plant, glass vessel, label stock, powder, oil, fiber, and liquid behavior remain physically credible.
- 07Motion
- Extraction, growth, mixing, or provenance paths explain process rather than imply unsupported efficacy.
Adaptation
Keep the signature move invariant. Adapt imagery, material, language, and interaction to the actual beauty, food, wellness context rather than copying a finished reference.
Accessibility
Preserve a visible reading order and sufficient working space. Meet WCAG AA contrast, visible focus, 44px targets, and never encode meaning through color or style alone.
06 / Background
Background
These lineages are source-linked research doors, not permission to copy a particular work or brand.
- 01botanical illustration
- 02photomicrography
- 03natural history plate
- 04new objectivity photography
Guardrail
Name species, origin, growers, traditional knowledge, and evidence accurately; avoid extractive ingredient storytelling.
07 / Agent recipe
botanical-laboratory
Use the stable ID and recipe to give design agents the same context. Always adapt the output to the real business.
Prompt recipe
Use case: stylized-concept
Asset type: Aesthetic Directions Encyclopedia showcase, 3:2 landscape master
Primary request: Create one polished freeform showcase for Botanical Laboratory, applied to HERBARIUM X, a clearly fictional urban plant research institute.
Scene/backdrop: a contemporary herbarium bench with verified plant specimens, magnified structures, field labels, and a research publication.
Style/medium: A coherent contemporary design world, not a collage of references. Balance sensorial plant life with exact formulation, provenance, and evidence.
Composition/framing: Specimen plates, ingredient relationships, formulation bands, and sensory close-ups share exact scales. Keep all important content inside an 8 percent safe margin.
Typography: Refined scientific sans or serif with excellent ingredient, unit, and source handling.
Color palette: Pigments derived from real ingredients plus clean lab neutrals and a non-green counterpoint.
Imagery: Specific species, farm, process, microscopic structure, and finished product shown truthfully.
Materials/textures: Pressed plant, glass vessel, label stock, powder, oil, fiber, and liquid behavior remain physically credible.
Text (verbatim): "HERBARIUM X". No other readable words.
Constraints: Original fictional concept; visibly applied to editorial, website, packaging; realistic production detail; no real company, client, result, claim, signature, or watermark; no imitation of a living artist or proprietary campaign.
Avoid: generic leaf logo, greenwashing, pseudo-scientific diagrams, real logos, watermarks, artist imitation, generic mood board, illegible filler text.
Pilot refinement: Make one dominant integrated real-world application readable at thumbnail scale. Secondary views may support it but must remain subordinate. Do not create an equal-weight tiled mood board or generic presentation collage unless sequencing is essential to the direction. Render the exact requested text correctly and do not invent other readable copy.Working constraints
- Use one coherent direction grammar, not a collage of style references.
- Use only a fictional business and minimal exact text.
- Do not imitate a living artist, real brand, client project, or proprietary campaign.
- Preserve essential hierarchy, legibility, contrast, and reduced-motion equivalence.
- Avoid: generic leaf logo.
- Avoid: greenwashing.
- Avoid: pseudo-scientific diagrams.
08 / Sources & rights
Sources & rights
Work ownerSol
Example licenseAll rights reserved
- 01
Kew — Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art
Role: cultural context · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 02
Nikon Small World
Role: cultural context · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 03
Smithsonian Libraries — Kunstformen der Natur
Role: cultural context · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 04
MoMA — August Sander
Role: cultural context · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
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