Reimagine Prism Works

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The idea — refracted light. Build a language around light passing through glass: refraction, dispersion, the way a prism splits white light into a spectrum and casts caustic patterns. Surfaces behave like liquid glass — light bends, edges catch a spectral fringe, colour appears where light disperses rather than as flat fill. Clear, optical, precise.

The feeling. Light, clean, luminous — a bright optics lab, not a dark one. Colour arrives as dispersion: a spectral fringe at an edge, a caustic glint, a refracted bloom — never a loud flat wash. Glassy, precise, a little scientific; clarity is the point. Calm and high-key.

Yours to decide. Everything else is your own — what the language is for, the palette (the clear ground and how the spectrum disperses through it), the ONE signature mechanic for how light refracts (the fringe, the caustic, the lens — whatever you invent), the type, the layout, the imagery. Two designers given this brief should arrive at two genuinely different optics — make yours unmistakably your own. The one non-negotiable is the soul: refracted light through glass — clear and luminous, colour as dispersion not fill, the precise beauty of optics.

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