# CREATED BY THE SWARM — step c

Five original IMD swarm art lines, four product groups per line, twenty distinct products. Images contain no intentional lettering. Workers use the IMD square outline and smaller central diamond, with small limbs. All mockups use flat lays or staged product views without human models. Some museum illustrations include tiny anonymous visitor silhouettes as part of the printed scene; no identifiable real person is depicted.

## 1 — Moonshift

**Question:** What does the swarm dream about between jobs?

**Answer:** Between jobs, the workers dream of cloud quilts and staircases that lead from one moon to another. Their square bodies soften into sleep while the diamond at each centre stays quietly awake.

**Style:** Pastel airbrush surrealism with soft grain and spacious dream architecture.

**Palette:** Lilac #B6A1D8, midnight #25365E, butter #F6DEA0, blush #E7B9C5, ivory #F5F0E5.

| File | Product / catalog ID | Group | Placement | Print method |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [11.png](11.png) | Heavyweight garment-dyed tee / 586 | Wear | Bounded front chest dreamscape, unprinted margins | DTG |
| [12.png](12.png) | White glossy mug / 19 | Drinkware | Exterior wrap, clear rim and base | SUB |
| [13.png](13.png) | All-over print basic pillow / 83 | Home | Full front fabric panel | AOP / sublimated cut-and-sew |
| [14.png](14.png) | Enhanced matte paper poster / 1 | Wall | Paper face with ivory border | PAPER / digital |

## 2 — Isobar Parade

**Question:** If the swarm were weather, what would tomorrow's forecast map show?

**Answer:** Tomorrow's map shows a cobalt front of workers sweeping into a bright lime clearing. Their shared movement becomes wind paths and contour bands across an imaginary geography.

**Style:** Crisp graphic weather atlas, flat contour ribbons and dotted directional streams.

**Palette:** Cobalt #1746D1, acid lime #D7F348, white #FFFFFF, charcoal #252A30.

| File | Product / catalog ID | Group | Placement | Print method |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [21.png](21.png) | Pullover hoodie / 294 | Wear | Bounded front chest map, unprinted sleeves | DTF |
| [22.png](22.png) | Reversible bucket hat / 654 | Headwear | Crown, panels and brim | AOP / cut-and-sew |
| [23.png](23.png) | Backpack / 279 | Bags | Full fabric body, pocket and panels | AOP / cut-and-sew |
| [24.png](24.png) | Spiral notebook / 474 | Desk + tech | Full front cover, clear binding | PAPER / digital |

## 3 — Amber Archive

**Question:** What would a museum in the year 3000 keep of the swarm behind glass?

**Answer:** A future museum preserves the first shared tool alongside tiny workers suspended in luminous amber. The display honours ordinary collective labour as a precious archaeological find.

**Style:** Archaeological still life, translucent amber inclusions, stone strata, engraved stippling and dramatic light.

**Palette:** Honey #D69A36, tobacco #70451F, bone #E9DDC5, obsidian #191713.

| File | Product / catalog ID | Group | Placement | Print method |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [31.png](31.png) | Cotton tote bag / 641 | Bags | Bounded centre-front illustration | DTG |
| [32.png](32.png) | Enamel mug / 407 | Drinkware | Exterior wrap below metal rim | SUB |
| [33.png](33.png) | Glossy metal print / 588 | Wall | Full front face | SUB |
| [34.png](34.png) | Snap phone case / 683 | Desk + tech | Back face around camera opening | SUB |

## 4 — Quorum Quilt

**Question:** What does a thousand workers agreeing look like?

**Answer:** A thousand workers link hands until their separate squares become one interlocking quilt. Agreement appears as a larger diamond emerging from the repeated marks, with each worker still visible inside it.

**Style:** Modular folk geometry and coarse pixel jacquard; three flat colours, bold strokes, no gradients.

**Palette:** Vermilion #D6402B, warm ivory #F0E6D2, near-black #24201C.

| File | Product / catalog ID | Group | Placement | Print method |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [41.png](41.png) | Classic fit knitted crewneck sweater / 769 | Knit | Body and sleeves in coarse repeating jacquard | KNIT |
| [42.png](42.png) | Classic dad hat / 206 | Headwear | Small front-centre emblem, simplified linked workers | EMB, three thread colours, broad satin stitches |
| [43.png](43.png) | Stainless steel water bottle / 382 | Drinkware | Cylindrical exterior body | UV |
| [44.png](44.png) | Desk mat / 853 | Desk + tech | Full face to stitched perimeter | SUB |

## 5 — Rattle Bloom

**Question:** What sound does the swarm make, drawn as a picture?

**Answer:** The swarm sounds like many tiny taps gathering into a single rolling rattle. Drawn in ink, those taps bloom into jagged rings, vibrating arcs and rough bursts around the workers.

**Style:** Raw linocut and brush-ink percussion, asymmetrical radial energy and imperfect carved texture.

**Palette:** Ink #171714, saffron #DEA32B, natural off-white #EEE6D5.

| File | Product / catalog ID | Group | Placement | Print method |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [51.png](51.png) | All-over print bomber jacket / 390 | Wear | Full front, sleeves and fabric panels | AOP / cut-and-sew |
| [52.png](52.png) | Fanny pack / 350 | Bags | Full fabric body and side panels | AOP / cut-and-sew |
| [53.png](53.png) | Beach towel / 259 | Home | Full printed face | SUB |
| [54.png](54.png) | Stretched canvas / 3 | Wall | Front face and visible wrapped edges | PAPER / digital canvas |

## Production and review notes

Generated with the installed built-in image tool, one distinct prompt per output. These are merch concept mockups, rather than manufacturing print files or exact photographs of supplied Printful blanks. Product types and methods were checked against the public [Printful catalog](https://api.printful.com/products), retrieved 2026-10-15. The live catalog identifies metal prints and snap cases as SUB and the steel bottle as UV; those catalog methods govern the listings above.

Prompt set: each generation requested one square image of at least 1024 pixels, a single complete photoreal product with material and seam detail, no collage, no lettering, no people and none of the prohibited subjects. Each used its line's style, palette and visual answer above, the square-outline/central-diamond worker anatomy, and its table's product and placement. Moonshift requested floating quilt-clouds, moons and impossible stairs; Isobar Parade requested imaginary map contours and worker wind streams; Amber Archive requested amber worker inclusions and a shared-tool relic; Quorum Quilt requested interlocking workers and an emerging collective diamond with a simplified embroidery adaptation; Rattle Bloom requested drumming workers, carved ink bursts and vibrating radial arcs.

Visual review: all twenty images were opened and inspected. The five sets have distinct styles and palettes, four catalog groups per set, twenty distinct catalog products, one tee and one hoodie in total. No prohibited words, identifiable real people, frogs, other visible brands, political or price content were observed.

Known unmet visual details: the worker anatomy is not perfectly invariant. In 12–14, some bodies are solid or slightly rectangular and some diamonds sit below centre; 21–24 simplify workers to square/diamond map glyphs with limbs not clearly visible; 41 rounds the central diamond through coarse knit stitches; 42 rotates the outer square motifs. The knit shows a symbolic crowd rather than literally 1,000 individually countable workers. Museum scene 32 includes tiny fictional visitor silhouettes within the printed illustration. Exact colour values, print dimensions and hidden/reverse-panel coverage cannot be certified from these concept views.

Several generated canvases were rectangular despite the prompt; neutral gallery margins were added without cropping, stretching or changing original artwork pixels. All delivered canvases are square, at least 1024 pixels per side.

File validation: checked all 20 required paths, PNG signatures, every chunk CRC, complete compressed pixel streams, square dimensions and minimum size. No rendering dependencies are required to view these PNGs. Named deliverables remain unstaged for the uploader.

| File | Delivered dimensions (pixels) | Format | Bytes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |

| 11.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 2,066,127 |
| 12.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 1,890,915 |
| 13.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 2,768,160 |
| 14.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 2,304,025 |
| 21.png | 1286 × 1286 | PNG / image/png | 3,160,637 |
| 22.png | 1374 × 1374 | PNG / image/png | 2,670,359 |
| 23.png | 1374 × 1374 | PNG / image/png | 3,300,300 |
| 24.png | 1374 × 1374 | PNG / image/png | 3,303,007 |
| 31.png | 1374 × 1374 | PNG / image/png | 3,850,679 |
| 32.png | 1370 × 1370 | PNG / image/png | 3,399,573 |
| 33.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 2,738,130 |
| 34.png | 1536 × 1536 | PNG / image/png | 4,254,333 |
| 41.png | 1312 × 1312 | PNG / image/png | 3,544,627 |
| 42.png | 1312 × 1312 | PNG / image/png | 2,439,018 |
| 43.png | 1536 × 1536 | PNG / image/png | 2,195,860 |
| 44.png | 1536 × 1536 | PNG / image/png | 2,937,191 |
| 51.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 2,962,112 |
| 52.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 3,388,923 |
| 53.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 3,742,794 |
| 54.png | 1254 × 1254 | PNG / image/png | 3,336,223 |