# IMD swarm — round 3, step d

Five original art lines, ten unique products. All artwork is flat, straight-on art without product photography, mockups, people, other brands, prices or politics. Every worker has a square outline body and a smaller central diamond. There are no words, letters or numbers in any artwork; line names below are documentation only.

All SVGs are original native vector paths, rectangles, circles and ellipses, not PNG traces. They contain no embedded raster images, external assets, fonts or dependencies. PNGs are RGBA, tagged at 300 dpi; pixel dimensions below govern production size. Colours are sRGB hex values. Printed colour will depend on the chosen substrate and print process. The media descriptions indicate vector interpretations of the named print techniques.

## 1 — Tide Carvers

**Question:** If the swarm had a surf shop, what would its boards look like?

**Answer:** The swarm carves longboards with flowing coral pinstripes and a square-bodied worker as the shaper's emblem. Broad curling wave bands make the board feel pulled from a sun-warmed woodcut.

**Style:** Reduction woodcut interpretation, uneven flowing bands, carved flecks and longboard striping; warm and playful.

**Palette:** deep sea #075B59, coral #EF6947, sun cream #F8E8BD.

| Files | Product / placement | Blank colour | Print method | PNG pixels | SVG native canvas | Words in art |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.png + 11.svg | Tee / centre front, portrait | Natural | DTG, transparent ground | 1800 × 2400 | 1800 × 2400, native shapes | None |
| 12.png + 12.svg | Beach towel / entire face, portrait | Not applicable, full bleed | Sublimation | 2280 × 4440 | 5700 × 11100, native shapes | None |

Both files use exactly the three palette colours, plus PNG edge antialiasing. The towel PNG is the permitted large-format reduction at exactly 40% of target dimensions; the SVG supplies the full target canvas.

## 2 — Parcel Choir

**Question:** If the swarm ran a post office, what would its stamps look like?

**Answer:** Each scalloped stamp honours a worker with an engraved hatch field and a folded-envelope motif. The mug sends a pair of these little couriers around the wrap, joined by cancellation waves.

**Style:** Intaglio-inspired postage engravings, scalloped silhouettes and close parallel hatching; nostalgic and orderly.

**Palette:** mulberry #6A1936, peach paper #F1C8A0, aubergine ink #291B2C.

| Files | Product / placement | Blank colour | Print method | PNG pixels | SVG native canvas | Words in art |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.png + 21.svg | Sticker sheet / five separate scalloped stamps with open cutting gaps | Not applicable, transparent ground | Digital sticker printing | 1750 × 2482 | 1750 × 2482, native shapes | None |
| 22.png + 22.svg | Mug 11oz wrap / paired art centred at 24% and 76% of wrap width, one on each side of handle | White ceramic | Sublimation, full bleed | 2700 × 1050 | 2700 × 1050, native shapes | None |

21 uses mulberry and peach only. 22 uses all three colours; the dark ground reaches every edge. The sheet has five independent motifs with no separate decorative marks in its cutting gaps. These are decorative stamps with no denomination or postal claims.

## 3 — Voltage Pilgrims

**Question:** What does the swarm look like in a thunderstorm?

**Answer:** A luminous worker strides through diagonal rain beneath stacked midnight clouds. A hot pink lightning slash and rippling electric water turn the storm into a bold nocturnal travel scene.

**Style:** Luminous digital airbrush interpretation with a continuous blue gradient, silhouette clouds, neon outline and fine rain; dramatic and defiant.

**Palette:** midnight #08122E, cobalt #3479FF, intermediate blue #243D9B, electric pink #FD63D6, ice #B6FFFA. The background gradient generates intermediate blue values.

| Files | Product / placement | Blank colour | Print method | PNG pixels | SVG native canvas | Words in art |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.png + 31.svg | Poster / full portrait face | Not applicable, full bleed | Fine-art digital print | 2250 × 3000 | 9000 × 12000, native shapes | None |
| 32.png + 32.svg | Phone case / full exterior artwork | Not applicable, full bleed | Sublimation | 1328 × 2197 | 1328 × 2197, native shapes | None |

Both files use the full palette and gradient. The poster PNG is the permitted large-format reduction at exactly 25% of target dimensions; render its SVG at 9000 × 12000 for the full specified raster size. The phone worker sits below the upper cloud zone so its main emblem avoids the usual upper camera area; no device-specific camera cutout is baked into the art.

## 4 — Kickflip Static

**Question:** If the swarm had a skate crew, what would be on the deck?

**Answer:** The crew paints its square worker in acid lime on a dark deck, surrounded by oversized screen dots. Torn zigzag shards and four-point sparks make the graphic feel fast, loud and homemade.

**Style:** Punk screenprint interpretation, chunky halftone dots, ripped-paper geometry and a tilted deck silhouette; abrasive and energetic.

**Palette:** violet #5125A3, acid lime #DAFF38, black plum #20152D, warm white #FFF9EB.

| Files | Product / placement | Blank colour | Print method | PNG pixels | SVG native canvas | Words in art |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41.png + 41.svg | Heavyweight tee / centre front, portrait | Black | DTG, transparent ground | 1800 × 2400 | 1800 × 2400, native shapes | None |
| 42.png + 42.svg | Desk mat / entire top surface, landscape | Not applicable, full bleed | Sublimation | 5610 × 3839 | 5610 × 3839, native shapes | None |

Both files use all four palette colours. The deck is a drawn graphic element, not a photographed or rendered product mockup. The desk mat has a continuous violet ground through all four edges.

## 5 — Diamond Transit

**Question:** What would a worker's passport and visa stamps look like?

**Answer:** A worker's passport carries a diamond-centred seal surrounded by interlaced security curves. Two tilted visa impressions repeat its square body, while abstract chevrons suggest a travel document without inventing countries or personal details.

**Style:** Cyanotype-inspired security engraving with guilloche curves and ochre seal work; precise, quiet and ceremonial.

**Palette:** blueprint #114E69, pale mint paper #D6ECE8, ochre gold #C99037.

| Files | Product / placement | Blank colour | Print method | PNG pixels | SVG native canvas | Words in art |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51.png + 51.svg | Tote / centre face, square | Oyster | DTG, transparent ground | 1500 × 1500 | 1500 × 1500, native shapes | None |
| 52.png + 52.svg | Pillow / full front face | Not applicable, full bleed | Sublimation | 3450 × 3450 | 3450 × 3450, native shapes | None |

Both files use all three palette colours. The pale seal interior in 51 is intentional opaque artwork; the surrounding negative space is transparent. The chevrons are shapes, not text, and the visa motifs contain no readable credentials.

## Production and review record

- Ten different products; no product repeated. No embroidery or seamless-tile product is selected.
- Transparent PNG backgrounds: 11, 21, 41, 51. Fully opaque edge-to-edge backgrounds: 12, 22, 31, 32, 42, 52.
- Each pair comprises an image/png file and an image/svg+xml source. SVG dimensions match the requested target dimensions exactly, with proportional viewBoxes.
- All ten PNGs were decoded and checked for dimensions, alpha coverage and nonempty artwork; all ten SVGs were XML-parsed and checked for external references and raster embeddings. Artwork was visually reviewed in a contact sheet. The storm body was repaired to separate its centre diamond from the lightning behind it.
- No unmet artwork requirements identified. The two reduced large-format PNGs use the brief's explicit allowance; use their full-size SVGs for maximum-resolution output. These are artwork canvases at the supplied sizes, not vendor-specific cutting templates; no additional seam allowances, cut contours, camera holes or printer-specific colour profiles are supplied.
- The artwork is self-contained. Rendering libraries were used only as temporary local tools, and no installed package is required to open, print or scale the delivered files.