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<\/p>\nSure, we could sit and fearmonger about how AI will one day replace designers, but here\u2019s an alternative reality \u2013 what if AI didn\u2019t replace us, it just created a parallel reality? Like you\u2019ve got Japanese ceramics, Italian ceramics, and Turkish ceramics, what if you could have AI ceramics? Not a replacement, not a substitute, just another channel. That\u2019s what BKID envisioned with \u2018Texture Ware\u2019, a series of cups designed entirely by AI and manufactured using 3D printing. Minimal human intervention, and minimal human cultural input.<\/p>\n
The AI feeds itself a vast repository of data and uses its own database to make textural products that humans then use. BKID\u2019s results look nothing like anything we\u2019ve seen before, each cup of the Texture Ware series looks almost alien, an exaggeration of textures found in nature taken to an extreme. You wouldn\u2019t find such cups in a handicrafts bazaar or your local IKEA. They\u2019re so different that they exist as a separate entity within the industry, not a replacement of the industry itself.<\/p>\n
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The workflow uses different AI services to go from prompt to cup. The only real input is a text prompt from a human specifying what sort of texture they want. The AI generates the texture image using ChatGPT\u2019s Dall-E, creates\u00a0 a cup out of it in Midjourney, and then translates the 2D image of a cup to 3D using Vizcom. The 3D file then gets 3D printed, eliminating pretty much any actual human intervention as the machine models and manufactures the design from start to end.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat would normally require a considerable amount of time if crafted entirely by hand was instead realized through two to three generative tools and a process of repeated trial and error,\u201d says BKID. \u201cThe exaggerated expressions and omitted forms that emerge in each stage invite the audience to experience the subtle differences in sensibility between traditional handcraft and craft shaped by generative software.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Users can make cups inspired by brutalist textures of concrete, fuzzy textures of moss, rustic textures of wood-bark, wrinkled textures of crumpled paper, raw textures of coal, columnar textures of basalt rock, porous-like textures of coral, or even alien-like textures of fungi. Each cup looks unique and the AI never repeats itself, which means even cups within the same texture category could be wildly different.<\/p>\n
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The result truly feels alien, because the AI approaches design using an entirely different set of parameters. Their imperfections become design details, their lack of ergonomics or awareness become a unique design DNA. The result isn\u2019t like any cup you\u2019ve ever seen before, and that\u2019s the point \u2013 it\u2019s created by an AI that hasn\u2019t \u2018seen\u2019 cups, hasn\u2019t used cups, and doesn\u2019t test its output.\u00a0That being said, the cups are still usable because of the parameters set by the human. The cups don\u2019t have holes, and contain enough volume to hold liquid efficiently. They\u2019re perfect for espresso, sak\u00e9, or green tea, something that\u2019s savored in tiny quantities in vessels that feel less utilitarian and more ritualistic.<\/p>\n
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What BKID\u2019s experiment proves is that AI (at least in this case) won\u2019t replace designers, it\u2019ll exist independent of them. Can an AI make a cup exactly like a regular designer would? Absolutely\u2026 but there\u2019s a better case to be made to have AI make things beyond human creativity and culture. These cups contort nature and textures into something that feel extremely new, in a way that allows AI-made cups and human-made cups to coexist peacefully.<\/p>\n
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