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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is a design aesthetic defined by the New Year's Eve dinner, firecrackers, lanterns, worked in a palette of red and gold. Associated with the 1000s, Chinese New Year leans toward family, bringing fortune, celebration. Related looks include Guochao.

Chinese New Year aesthetic — visual example
Ancient times (at least 1000 BC)ChineseFood and DrinkGoldRedSeasonal

AI image prompt

Chinese New Year aesthetic — The New Year's Eve dinner, firecrackers, lanterns, the '福' character. Colour palette: Red and gold. Mood: Family, bringing fortune, celebration. Highly detailed, rich colour and texture, evocative mood, high quality.

What it is

Chinese New Year is a design aesthetic built around the New Year's Eve dinner, firecrackers, lanterns, the '福' character. The Chinese New Year palette works in red and gold. As a named look, Chinese New Year is most associated with the 1000s. Beyond the essentials, the Chinese New Year look leans on the winter and related details — 5 recurring motifs in all. In feeling, Chinese New Year reads as family, bringing fortune, celebration, abundance. Chinese New Year sits within a family of related looks such as Guochao. Additionally, to recreate Chinese New Year in an AI image tool using GPT Image or Midjourney, pair red and gold and red and gold tones with the New Year's Eve dinner and firecrackers, and keep a family mood.

Palette

Red and gold

Motifs

The New Year's Eve dinner, firecrackers, lanterns, the '福' character, the winter

Mood & values

Family, bringing fortune, celebration, abundance, rituals, identity

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