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Over 300 years ago, craftsmen created masterpieces where every curve, material, and intricate detail reflected extraordinary artistry.
But imagine if those same craftsmen could see Nigeria in the year 2093. What would our everyday technology look like through their eyes?
While exploring The Metropolitan Museum of Art's public-domain collection, I discovered a beautifully crafted French commode from the early 1700s by André-Charles Boulle.
Using Recraft, I transformed its intricate gold engravings, dark ebony finishes, and luxurious craftsmanship into a futuristic Nigerian world, reimagining kekes, high-speed trains, delivery drones, and modern infrastructure as objects from another era.
Three centuries apart. One vision of the future.
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200 years ago, local artists painted the everyday people of the subcontinent: barbers, porters, chai wallas, knife sharpeners. Each one got a portrait, flat colours, a fancy border, total respect.
So I asked: what if those same painters time travelled to Lahore today?
I found their work in the Wellcome Collection’s public domain archive, trained a Recraft Style on it, and sent it to paint the new pesha of my city.
Same old painter, new Lahore. 😄
Love this. Giving chai wallas and porters that old portrait treatment again feels really respectful. The borders are beautiful.
What if the future had been imagined a century ago?
I’m exploring the fascinating intersection of vintage science-fiction art and futuristic technology for the Recraft × Contra Design Challenge.
Inspired by antique illustrations, forgotten inventions, and surreal planetary landscapes, I’m developing “THE UNDISCOVERED FUTURE” — a fictional archive where yesterday’s artistic imagination meets tomorrow’s possibilities.
The goal is to transform a historical visual language into something unexpected, cohesive, and entirely new.
Sometimes, the most interesting vision of the future comes from looking into the past.
#Contra #Recraft #DesignChallenge #VintageIllustration #AIArt
I found Eugène Grasset’s 1896 La plante et ses applications ornementales, a pattern book of Art Nouveau plant studies, on the Public Domain Image Archive, sourced from the Smithsonian Libraries via the Internet Archive. I used four of its plates as references to build a custom Recraft V4 Style called “Flora Urbana – Grasset Ornament”. The series, Flora Urbana: A Botanical Atlas of Modern Life, treats everyday technology as newly discovered species, each plate with a specimen above and abstracted ornament borders below. Earbuds become flower buds, a drone becomes a winged seed, a video call becomes a bed of blossoms, and an electric kettle becomes a snail. Grasset’s flat, lithographed look makes the modern objects feel like they belong in a Victorian herbarium.
