Hello!

There is something I want to talk about which has been all over everyone’s screens lately, and this is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its involvement in art, particularly graphic design. AI is difficult to get away from nowadays and is taking over a lot of aspects of our visual world. Here is a brief explanation of my thoughts on AI and if it has any effect on my work. Just fyi, this is my own writing and not AI… you’ll just have to believe me on that one!

To put it plain and simple, I feel very strongly about art in its purest and rawest form. A human touch with any artwork I feel is very important, as it gives that artwork personality and connection with the artist. Putting my computer to one side and getting out raw materials such as pencils, paints and paper, is something I feel really passionate about. It’s a headspace that I love being in, and I can’t get it from anywhere else. My work has its own style and each design is unique because of this and I don’t want to lose that aspect to my work.

I am not going to say that my work is completely AI free, AI is now a massive part of graphic design, and it’s also largely integrated into the softwares I use to refine and develop my work. What I do want to make clear is that my designs are not going to be created purely from AI. In my opinion, new technology such as AI is a tool to help assist with certain aspects of the creative design process, I won’t be using it to replace my brain and its artistic abilities or halt my creative freedom.

I am quite shy behind the camera but I do often document my work and take photos of my design process. I’ve created a short documentation of my work in the images below for a project that I completed for Bleubird recently, an outdoor lifestyle brand based in Northern Ireland. This project was started from pencil to paper with my own initial research and brainstorming.

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