A paste-up wall for interfaces
Decoupage builds screens like a zine wall — torn ink cutouts pinned and overlapping on a dark wall, bright where they cross.
The contact sheet
Every surface is a piece of paper that was torn out and pasted down: a deckle edge, an offset ink halo, and an overlap that multiplies to violet. Depth comes from pasting one scrap over the next.
Torn silhouettes, never a perfect rounded box. The ragged cut is the chrome.
The shadow is a second spot plate shifted a few pixels — a coloured misprint, never grey.
Where two scraps cross, the seam multiplies to violet. Overlap is how hierarchy reads.
Misprint, on purpose
Magenta, cyan, yellow — flat highlighter spot inks on a near-black wall. They only ever make a fourth colour by overlapping: violet, where two layers multiply. That seam carries every link, every depth cue, every "this sits on top of that."
Paste-up
Pin the scraps, let them overlap, leave dark wall between clusters so the ink always lands against open ground.
Cut the hero out of paper — a torn ink headline, one word highlighted on a magenta scrap.
Lay the support scraps across the wall at varied sizes, overlapping at the corners.
Where scraps cross, the violet seam appears — that is the depth, no drop shadow needed.
Loud, legible, and clearly torn by hand. Start your wall.