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creative-direction
Walk the user through four directional axes (tone register, aesthetic philosophy, audience relationship, sensory ambition) and produce a structured aesthetic brief that downstream content, copy, design, and art-direction skills consume as required input. The aesthetic depth layer, distinct from `creative-brief` (operational kickoff: scope, audience, deliverables, constraints). Use when a project needs aesthetic coherence across many small decisions and the user has only a vague feeling, or when multiple downstream aesthetic-producing skills need a shared brief. Triggers on creative direction, aesthetic direction, set the aesthetic, define the visual direction, what's the vibe, what's the tone, the four axes. Does NOT fire for a general kickoff brief (use `creative-brief`), tactical single-piece work, already-documented direction, purely functional output, or locked production-stage work.
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# Creative Direction
Frameworks produce competent output. Coherent output requires a brief.
This skill turns vague creative intent into a structured brief that downstream skills can reference. It does not generate taste. It captures direction, so the dozens of small decisions a project requires (word choice, image selection, white space, sequencing, what to leave out) all answer to the same question.
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> Worked examples for each axis position can be assembled from any reference brand library that documents tone, aesthetic, audience relationship, and sensory ambition consistently. The framework below describes the four axes; the user's own reference set positions each example along the axes during the brief workflow.
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