AiD
Artificial Industrial Design
AI Gallery and Workshop
Generative artificial intelligence has captured the world as many race to experiment and integrate this new tool into their work. As a class, we explored the possibilities of generative AI and what it means to designers.
Graduate Studio
Class Project
Prof Roger Ball
Georgia Institute of Technology
Generated images were developed and refined across a graduate and undergraduate industrial design classes. With branding, information cards, and graphics I crafted, the gallery was displayed in two public galleries in Atlanta.
Class Workshop
Workshop planning and execution was handled in a volunteer team consisting of Professor Roger Ball, Avery Welkley, Palak Gupta, Xavier Simonelli, and myself.
We where inspired by Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and found relevancy in the impact Ai was having on conversations within design. Although there was fear in what is to come, most thought of this new technology as yet another tool.
The same team coordinating the workshop recorded quotes and collated the generated images into an online press kit. An article describing the actions and thoughts that occurred during this workshop was featured in the Industrial Designers Society of America spring 2023 issue of the Innovation Magazine.
Impact
Artificial intelligence tools, stable diffusion image generation and large language models, still continue to evolve in their ability and ways of incorporating into our workflows.
As the question of authorship and legality of training data continue to be investigated, the ethics of good practice using Ai is still uncertain.
