AI fails

[AndyRM]

You'd be surprised. At some point there was a very popular burger restaurant in Tehran called Big Boi.

Gotta be an Oukast fan who started that.

 

[C R]

Gotta be an Oukast fan who started that.

Could be.

 

[briantrumpet]

That is 100% AI.

But who the hell calls a Lebanese restaurant "Chez Jolene"?!

Yeah, I know the poster is, but the "£10 POUNDS" might be the input text.

 

[AndyRM]

Yeah, I know the poster is, but the "£10 POUNDS" might be the input text.

Aye. Which any designer worth anything would be able to see.

AI can get in the bin.

 

[briantrumpet]

Aye. Which any designer worth anything would be able to see.

AI can get in the bin.

Quite so. I help with a professional PR person on posters for the orchestra I play in: we commissioned a firm to come up with a properly designed format with ident & fonts, for which she then chooses real photos to drop in and overlay text. And we ping it to and fro for proofing.

 

[AndyRM]

Quite so. I help with a professional PR person on posters for the orchestra I play in: we commissioned a firm to come up with a properly designed format with ident & fonts, for which she then chooses real photos to drop in and overlay text. And we ping it to and fro for proofing.

Absolutely how it should be.

AI just makes everything look weirdly identical.

 

[briantrumpet]

Absolutely how it should be.

AI just makes everything look weirdly identical.

The bit I didn't add was that it doesn't go back through the committee, as everyone on it suddenly turns into an expert with opinions.

 

[PurplePenguin]

That is 100% AI.

But who the hell calls a Lebanese restaurant "Chez Jolene"?!

A Lebanese Jolene? There's one in London. There's lots of French stuff in Lebanon.

 

[AndyRM]

The bit I didn't add was that it doesn't go back through the committee, as everyone on it suddenly turns into an expert with opinions.

Again, as it should be. I learned pretty early doors that design by committee doesn't work.

 

[AndyRM]

Absolutely how it should be.

AI just makes everything look weirdly identical.

Speaking of which, this is the local printer/designer about 50 yards from where I live...

He's still going so fair play, but what he displays in his window has gradually changed from properly made things to this nonsense.

 

[AndyRM]

A Lebanese Jolene? There's one in London. There's lots of French stuff in Lebanon.

I know. It just seems a weird name to me as the Lebanese places round me all have more "traditional" names.

 

[Ian H]

Speaking of which, this is the local printer/designer about 50 yards from where I live...

He's still going so fair play, but what he displays in his window has gradually changed from properly made things to this nonsense.

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Blimey! That's a survival. I imagine an old litho press held together with string, and perhaps a Heidelberg platen for cutting and creasing.

 

[AndyRM]

Blimey! That's a survival. I imagine an old litho press held together with string, and perhaps a Heidelberg platen for cutting and creasing.

Half right. He doesn't have a Heidelberg.

 

[PurplePenguin]

I know. It just seems a weird name to me as the Lebanese places round me all have more "traditional" names.

What are the traditional Christian Lebanese names? I have no idea.

 

[Pross]

Blimey! That's a survival. I imagine an old litho press held together with string, and perhaps a Heidelberg platen for cutting and creasing.

My dad worked on Heidelberg 4 colour litho presses most of his life. We used to go in to his factory every Friday after school for pay day. I was never short of pads of paper to draw on as a kid and always had pots of coloured dots of card around that came from the hole punches. I doubt the factory would pass H&S inspections these days, even in the late 70s / early 80s it was a bit dodgy (he moved to a company in a modern factory by the mid 80s).