*NEW* 49 & Market - August release

No, this is not another language or something. Telephone pole wires don’t grow out of the wood anywhere. That text is no known language. It’s an odd mishmash of all kinds of texts that AI image generators have been trained on. This is very obviously AI generated (to me). That doesn’t mean a designer didn’t put in the prompt or clean it up so the vehicles have two headlights or something, but this carries several hallmarks of AI generation.

AI generated stuff is the new thing and it makes sense that some designers are exploring its capabilities. But as for me, it creeps me out. Art is a very human thing to me, and I prefer to keep it that way, honestly.

Again, I love 49 and Market products, but this is unsettling to me. That’s all. I don’t understand why it doesn’t bother some people, much like you may not understand why it bothers me so much.

Oh, I just meant the actual link for the package front, where you just said "text".  Your post didn't specify anything more about that:


That comment was originally posted alone so I didn't realize you had the same issues with the cover as the ones mentioned in your later posts.  I was trying to figure out if the name of the line or the description or something were weird and I couldn't see anything, because that was the "text" I thought you meant.

Yes, sorry about all that. Here is (hopefully this links correctly) a picture with the details I noticed. The one with the telephone/lamp pole is in all the package branding.

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Oh my gosh, thank you!

I wasn't expecting you to make the pictures work for me, but these definitely do, and now I can totally see what you're talking about.  I wasn't seeing that lamp post/telephone pole at all, nor did I notice all of the fake words.

Yep. And some of those "tools" are just kind of floating on the pegboard. They look more like instruments of torture or something out of a fantasy novel.

I was weirded out by the signs not making sense on the paper and the AI gen explanation totally hits. So, I think this is an opportunity for customers to provide feedback. I DO like the B sides alot but I agree I do not like the fake look for most of the other sides. Even that denim one feels off to me. My gut feeling is to figure out a way to provide them with some constructive feedback on this. I think that they need to know we like the concept of the theme and colors, but not the AI. generative images. That is good and useful feedback. Listen, everyone is trying to figure out where AI fits in so I don't fault them for giving an AI designer a try, but giving specific feedback would help them.

I can totally see the 49 & Market aesthetic being something that someone attempts to recreate using gen AI. I think it's valuable for them to know that customers may have some big issues with both the use of AI and the actual look of the products. Just my 2 cents. I will still likely get some of the papers because there are some B sides that will work really well for a project for my college son, but agreeing with y'all I do not like the AI generated look.