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Machine Age Design AI image prompts

Interwar objects that celebrated the machine itself — chromed metal, bakelite, and geometric 'skyscraper' forms, as the new profession of industrial design gave appliances and tableware a polished modern face. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Machine Age Design vocabulary.

Kem Weber 'Zephyr' electric digital clock for Lawson Time, 1934

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a product design in the Machine Age Design style, Machine Age design, chrome and bakelite, skyscraper style, Kem Weber Zephyr, speed lines, industrial design 1930s, polished aluminium, stepped ziggurat, chromed-metal, geometric, skyscraper-stepped, machine-finished, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A product design in the Machine Age Design style. Emphasize Machine Age design, chrome and bakelite, skyscraper style, Kem Weber Zephyr, speed lines, industrial design 1930s, polished aluminium, stepped ziggurat. The mood is chromed-metal, geometric, skyscraper-stepped, machine-finished. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a product design in the Machine Age Design style, Machine Age design, chrome and bakelite, skyscraper style, Kem Weber Zephyr, speed lines, industrial design 1930s, polished aluminium, stepped ziggurat, chromed-metal, geometric, skyscraper-stepped, machine-finished, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Machine Age Design keyword vocabulary

Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.

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