Cover: The Atlas Table
Cover4:5Research Object
Large-format museum artbook cover, overhead view of a working atlas table covered with illustrated plates of imagined utopias, crop marks, color swatches, a brass compass, seed packet, small pressure gauge, folded civic form, old key, tram ticket, bowl of water, pencil notes, linen book cloth texture, restrained editorial composition, premium cultural history publishing, warm daylight from upper left, deep focus, tactile paper grain, no logos, no real national flags, no human faces, leave clean title area in upper third, aspect ratio 4:5, artifact-grade, highly detailed.
Primary cover testWarm daylight / table surface
Mars: Public Garden Under Pressure Glass
Opening Plate3:2Technocapital
Interior of an early Mars settlement public garden inside a transparent pressure dome, dwarf citrus trees and bean vines under ultraviolet grow lights, condensation on glass ribs, red Martian dust storm visible outside, small maintenance workers in practical soft utility clothing, irrigation valves and resource labels integrated into the architecture, emotional tone of fragile abundance, rust red exterior contrasted with precious chlorophyll green, mixed-media architectural illustration with painterly light and annotated atlas-plate details, no logos, no real spacecraft branding, aspect ratio 3:2, high detail, book illustration.
Hero plate candidateFragile abundance / visible systems
AI Utopia: Managed River-City Sunset
Interior Plate3:2Humane unease
Humane AI-designed city at sunset along a river walk, warm civic terraces, libraries and clinics glowing softly behind trees, light rain held at the horizon, subtle environmental sensors integrated into stone and wood, people walking calmly without crowding, atmosphere of care and gentle unease, palette of rain blue, warm silver, cedar, and calibrated amber, editorial mixed-media illustration with faint diagrammatic overlays and caption space, not cyberpunk, not utopian gloss, aspect ratio 3:2, high resolution, artbook plate.
Ad-test plateCare first, computation second
Queer Anarchist: Night Kitchen
Interior Plate3:2Free Zone
Night kitchen in a reclaimed queer anarchist free zone, mismatched tables, salvaged chandelier, clinic curtains made from theater velvet, bail-fund cash tin, soup pots, repaired wheelchair, people cooking, arguing gently, dyeing hair in a sink, garden tools and protest banners at the edges, warm tungsten light, dense lived-in tenderness, brick, mural pigment, photocopy black, and clinic blue, documentary-meets-illustrated artbook style, no caricature, no visible brand logos, aspect ratio 3:2, highly detailed, tactile paper texture.
Density and tendernessSensitivity: no caricature