The Phaneronaut album “The Song of the Machine” is about a song that travels through time. This song appears in several decades of the 20th century in different incarnations.

So it made sense (to me…) that each of the songs should also have its own cover art. The gallery below displays some of the more succesfull results of using ideogram.ai to generate covers in different stylistics for the different versions of the song. Ideogram is a model based on DALL-E, but trained to be able to deal with typography better than most models to date. You can see that this works quite well below.

And yes, I know that this might not be a good thing. I know that using AI tools (or rather A-“I”) in/for art and other creative fields is problematic and controversal. For example, here’s what a professional graphic designer friend of mine said when he saw those covers:

These AI covers are all so typographically good that I couldn’t achieve that with conventional means. And nobody would pay me for it anyway.

I have complicated, mixed feelings about AI in art myself. But those will have to wait for a longer blog post at a later time.

Get “The Song of the Machine” here from August 6th 2024 on.