09.06.24 Newsletter

Our weekly dispatch from the Experience Design Studio cooking up creative mischief at the crossroads of tech and imagination.

Anna Williams

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Sheridan Low

Sep 07, 2024

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⚡️Embrace the Singularity⚡️

Tech news, AI tools, and radical stuff worth your time!

📟 This Is Colossal 📟
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has launched its AI training cluster named "Grok" in collaboration with Grok's Colossus Supercomputer to accelerate AI model training.
Grok-ing It

📰 It’s About Time 📰
The TIME100 AI 2024 list highlights 100 influential individuals shaping the future of artificial intelligence, featuring innovators, leaders, and visionaries driving advancements in AI.
AI-Listers

🪅 So Good, You’ll Kling to It 🪅
Kling AI is a platform that provides tools for creating images and videos using generative AI while retaining an impressive amount of detail and anatomic accuracy.
Try It Now

🍄 Rise of the Mushroom Bots 🍄
Engineers have created a robot controlled by a living mushroom, blending biology and robotics to explore how fungi can interface with machines and influence movement.
The Fungi-nator

🍝 Lights, Camera, AI-ction! 🍝
Hailuo AI provides advanced tools for generating AI-powered video content, enabling users to create, customize, and enhance videos. And it apparently passes the famous AI “spaghetti test.”
We’ve Scene It All

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🌟 Style Spotlight 🌟

Maximalism design is a bold, expressive style that embraces complexity and vibrant aesthetics, standing in direct contrast to minimalist approaches. Originating in the late 19th century as a reaction to the restrained simplicity of movements like Modernism, Maximalism adopted the motto "more is more," celebrating excess, rich textures, intricate patterns, and an abundance of colors and decor. The style gained popularity in the 1980s with designers like Alessandro Mendini and the Memphis Group, who used eccentric shapes and bold color palettes to challenge traditional design norms. Famous artists in this style include Damien Hirst, known for his elaborate and opulent installations, and Yayoi Kusama, whose immersive, pattern-heavy works embody the principles of Maximalism. Today, Maximalism is seeing a resurgence in interior design, fashion, and digital art, celebrated for its ability to evoke emotion, personality, and artistic freedom.

Prompt Specifics

When writing text prompts for any kind of AI generative art, there are keywords that can help you closer achieve the desired style or overall outcome. For creating, Maximalism style images, here are some great keywords and seeds to try:

/imagine: maximalist, maximalism, bold colors, intricate patterns, 80s maximalism, 90s maximalism, collage, nostalgia, retro, textures, vibrant hues, busy composition, dramatic lighting, luxurious, over-the-top, rich contrast, vivid, rich, over-saturation

style references: 2917381023, 680572301, 3322162017

seeds: 998926458, 1928730766, 2697338957, 3292916157