This workshop will cover a range of techniques for integrating AI into your design workflows. AI tools can connect with and augment a variety of mediums—analog and digital. Their generative capacity makes them particularly adept at augmenting the early stages of the creative process. As there is no “one way” to use AI, we will cover various techniques that take advantage of the multi-modal aspects of large-language models that allow for varied inputs to generate multiple outcomes.

Part of the value of using a diffusion model like MidJourney is its multi-modal capabilities. You can feed it words, images, and photographs to generate novel outputs. The first session of this workshop will emphasize the interchange of words and images: text-to-image, image-to-text, and image-to-image techniques. The second session will address newer techniques, such as defining styles with a style tuner and new open-source experimental tools that generate 3D point clouds from images (image-to-3d).

Both sessions will use a combination of demonstrations followed by hands-on individual design challenges. Participants are encouraged to have examples of their own process sketches, models, and photos to use throughout the workshop.

By the end of this workshop, participants will have demonstrated and practiced several techniques in MidJourney for developing their design ideas and generating visually compelling design imagery. Along the way, we will learn about many of the settings in MidJourney that can help us iteratively work through an idea and integrate it into your creative processes. Ultimately, everyone will come up with many ways to weave AI into their design process to augment their creative endeavors.