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by ereiamjh 5d ago
I think a thought pattern that happens here is "Would you prefer a chair mass produced in a factory, or would you prefer a hand-crafted chair?" Where by analogy, AI is the factory chair, human-designed is the hand-crafted chair. A
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
I think Canva Pro might do this - I dunno, I'm not paying for it. You can certainly ask ChatGPT for a poster, then ask it for a collection of assets with transparency, so you can composite them as you wish. It does take away from the &
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
I'm fascinating by how image models draw text. I've a designer friend who's very distracted by the text on even a text-only gpt-image generated poster, because it looks like a font he knows, but differs in subtle ways. I&#x27
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
I'm from Britain, where in the 50s you might well have had an outdoor toilet, and still had food rationing.
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
BTW one of my fondest memories of poster-making in my 90s student days, was when we recreated the packaging design of Asda tortilla chips, for a Mexican night at the student bar. Tequila slammers £1 :)
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
From the site: "I recognise that almost all of the styles are entirely inappropriate for a village fête. The point is to demonstrate what you can do for any event, and to show that you can ask for whatever style you want." Village
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
Yeah, and I have opinions about [3]. I think pretending you didn't use AI, when you did, is unworthy. So I'm not trying to make posters that fool you into thinking it's handmade. I'm trying to make AI posters that aren&#
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
It's not that CRTs were "forgiving", it's that designers leaned into what they'd do to pixels. A classic example is the tanks in Atari 2600 Combat - they look ridiculous on a hi-res screen. On a CRT they sort of loo
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AI Poster Prompts Improved(john.hartnup.uk)
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764791#49767382 had a lot of healthy discussion, and many people pointed out what I already knew, the posters were too cluttered. Claude steered me into improving the prompts with actu
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by ereiamjh 5d ago
Well, all the HN chat put me in the mood, so I did V2. There is a lot more empty space, and lot less clutter, and a lot less over-literal interpretation of event details (just because a gig is at a venue called The Anchor, doesn't mean
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by ereiamjh 6d ago
That's a more interesting question than you might have intended it to be. A designer's job has two contradictory aspects. One is knowing the rules and following the rules. The other is having novel ideas, and breaking the rules wh
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by ereiamjh 6d ago
Tombola: ahead of the event you ask for donations of prizes. We do it for a PTA, so it's a "no school uniform if you bring a Tombola prize" thing. Sweets, booze, trinkets, etc. Then you get two matching sets of raffle tickets
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by ereiamjh 6d ago
You're going back one generation, and I'm thinking further back. Like, if we all settled for a 1950s British living standard, using current manufacturing technology, we could achieve that while everyone works a little bit less. Bu
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by ereiamjh 6d ago
I can't remember where, but there was an article about the luxury homes billionaires are building themselves. They tent to have he design aesthetic of a bland, but expensive, corporate hotel.
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
It should be clear in the text, disguising as non-AI is not a goal. It's allowed to look like AI. It's just trying not to look shit. And that default look - that might not be shit either. Except we've now seen it repeated so
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
A lot of things are like that though. There's a cartoon - I thought XKCD but I can't find it - about how a beginner might identify an oak leaf by a set of descriptions - but an experienced arboriculturist would just say "well
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
Thanks for sharing this @Bluestein - this is my site. I'm aware of many of the flaws in these examples, but they're one shots and a serious user should refine and iterate. The main common flaw is that almost all the posters are to
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
AI will leave blank space if its prompt gives it permission: https://john.hartnup.uk/poster-prompts/minimalism-art/ And similarly, all your other points. But of course, the more I say "you've got to prom
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
This is something I actually cover in the follow-up project's how-to. Ask the AI to sense check the info you've supplied. It can tell you "hey, maybe you should mention venue address". https://john.hartnup.uk&
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
(I'm the author of the post) Just as with "you're absolutely right" and the em-dash thing, the image models have a load of habits they fall back on. Some of them are easy to spot - the yellow filter, making grids of icon
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
Love this. This is exactly the dilemma I had with fiction I had created with AI. Am my I the author? Did I just commission it? Something in between? So now I don't say. I show my workings and the reader can decide. And to be poncey, I
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
When there really aren't any jobs for the former window repair man to do, we are in a "post scarcity economy", which could be a utopia where everyone lives in comfort and has more leisure time. Or of course, a few billionaire
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
You could, of course, prompt the AI to produce a poster in the style of the "worse" human poster, and see where that gets you. I suspect it would do quite a convincing job. Though it's fairly unconvincing at handwriting.
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
If you break out more sophisticated tools - give Claude Code some skills, let it work in SVG or PDF, create bitmap assets and composite them with real fonts and vector assets, I'm sure you can achieve a lot. But the point of this blog
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
The sort of use cases I was think of (village fête etc.) would never have paid for a professional designer. We're talking about an event that's delighted to raise £500 for the church roof repair fund. Even £50 for a poster is 10%
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
I think you need to remember that most people have no eye for design, and that includes even just presenting the essentials of an event in text. And AI can actually do it much better than the average idiot. Of they ask. Like, if you ask - &
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
This is very true and after rendering 100 prompts twice for https://john.hartnup.uk/poster-prompts/ I realised that the prompts could be improved by asking for much less clutter. The best examples on there pick out one
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
Author here. Well of course Spring + Japan = Sakura. In a way the model would be faulty if it didn't reach for that cliché. That's what it's meant to do. If you want originality, you need to supply it. AI fills the vacuum w
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by ereiamjh 7d ago
I've done a lot of experimenting, and with the GPT image AI, it's quite hard to prevent the piss filter, though you can reduce it. It's easy to colour balance it in post though - if you have the aesthetics and the knowledge t

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