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Statement of Artistic Integrity

AI Usage Policy

AI use has become a hot topic in creative industries and I’m finding it more and more important to be transparent and open about the creative elements of my business.

 

Here’s the most important part:

All my creative work is done by me, my hands and my brain.

That includes design ideas, product design, artwork used for products, product descriptions, branding, icons and packaging design and communications to customers.

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I take great pride and immense pleasure in developing all my designs myself. I love coming up with cool ideas, doodling artworks and engineering schematics in my sketch books (of which there are MANY), and then turning those designs into the fabulous goodies for all of you. There are so many elements and considerations to my designs that AI could never come up with… it’s all just a part of how my weird brain works, I guess!

 

I know that many of you are attracted to my personal style of art, my design aesthetic, and my integrity as an artist in our community. This trust is so important to me, so you can be sure that going forward I will continue to use my brain and my hands to develop all my ideas and designs, as I have always done.

 

This means that I:

  • Design all my own artworks

  • Develop my own creative ideas

  • Refine my designs by hand, or with non-AI digital tools

  • Write my own product descriptions

  • Develop my own branding

  • Design my own logos and graphics

  • Take my own photographs and edit using non-AI digital tools

  • Develop my own packaging elements

  • Write all my own emails

  • Write my own social media posts

 

In the interest of transparency, I feel that it’s important to own how I have used AI tools in the past. When generative AI tools first became accessible a few years ago, I experimented with some of the tools. Specifically, I experimented with how to create graphics for concept visualisation. As a technology enthusiast, I get excited when new technologies become available. It’s the same for me with my workshop tools and machinery; when I realised I could have my own laser cutter, I was like a kid in a candy shop!

 

At that time, AI was still so new and there was a lack of education about the issues surrounding its use. I spent some time learning how to use Midjourney, and I created some graphics which I used to advertise the concept of my fantasy-themed 2023 advent. Those graphics were a combination of AI generated elements, and photoshop artwork that I did myself, and were only used on social media to communicate the overall concept of the theme. To be clear, I never used any AI tools for any of my designs, and never will. Since 2023, I have only used artworks that I have produced myself, my own photographs or appropriately licenced photographs for this purpose.

 

Also, I wrote this whole thing myself, without the use of AI tools. 👍🏼

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As always, if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email!

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xox Lisa

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