A threshold is crossed. For the first time
on the cover of Alaska Business, the design incorporates material procedurally generated by computer, colloquially known as AI. Art director Monica Sterchi-Lowman used Photoshop AI to combine a plain blue Top 49ers logotype with a reference image: a profile of a human face. Not a single eye or nose remains, but the portrait contributed the colored stripes resembling circuitry. Ironically, the human’s intent was to emulate “organic art” inspired by magazine covers of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
The cover strives to elevate this magazine’s usual design by using the latest tools. Processed by a machine, the graphic was refined by a human. But don’t get used to it; Sterchi-Lowman only considered the approach because of this month’s theme of “elevation.” Additional typography refinements can be found throughout this month’s special section.
