Canvas Design

When someone asks you to make a poster or visual piece, this generates actual design artifacts instead of giving you layout suggestions. It works in two phases: first Claude writes a design philosophy document (think "Brutalist Joy" or "Chromatic Silence") as a creative movement with specific visual principles, then uses that philosophy to create a PNG or PDF that's 90% visual, 10% text. The philosophy emphasizes things like color theory, spatial relationships, and composition while stressing that the output should look meticulously crafted, not thrown together. It's built for making art objects and posters, not decorated documents with paragraphs of text.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill canvas-design --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

These are instructions for creating design philosophies - aesthetic movements that are then EXPRESSED VISUALLY. Output only .md files, .pdf files, and .png files.

Complete this in two steps:

Design Philosophy Creation (.md file)
Express by creating it on a canvas (.pdf file or .png file)

First, undertake this task:

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY CREATION

To begin, create a VISUAL PHILOSOPHY (not layouts or templates) that will be interpreted through:

Form, space, color, composition
Images, graphics, shapes, patterns
Minimal text as visual accent

THE CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING

What is received: Some subtle input or instructions by the user that should be taken into account, but used as a foundation; it should not constrain creative freedom.
What is created: A design philosophy/aesthetic movement.
What happens next: Then, the same version receives the philosophy and EXPRESSES IT VISUALLY - creating artifacts that are 90% visual design, 10% essential text.

Consider this approach: