Brazilian Coffee Campaign Uses AI in Audubon-Inspired Bird ArtBrazilian Coffee Campaign Uses AI in Audubon-Inspired Bird Art
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CANTIN | You know our coffee. Meet the neighbors.
I found John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838) on Wikimedia Commons and in the National Gallery of Art's open collection, hand-coloured engravings where every bird is drawn life-size on the plant it lives on. I cropped seven public-domain plates, without captions or plate numbers, and trained a Recraft V4 Style on them that I called Audubon Aves do Brasil. Audubon never painted Brazil, so I used his way of drawing on Brazilian birds that live around our coffee farms. To tie it together I created CANTIN, an invented Brazilian coffee brand with the campaign line "You know our coffee. Now meet the neighbors." That brand is the twist, since his plates now sell a 2026 coffee on the poster, the campaign seal, the labels, the tins and the kraft bags.
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Links for the judges and for anyone who wants to try the style. Style (free to use): https://www.recraft.ai/styles/e2ba9fd8-01f4-4c2c-9a9b-c2c1d3a776ef Recraft project: https://www.recraft.ai/project/1ca0d8be-a020-4c7a-8ea7-fdaf6eb323de Archive references, John James Audubon,...
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The neighbors also show up for today's coffee.
Same Audubon Aves do Brasil style, three more plates Audubon could never have drawn. A bem-te-vi on an espresso machine, a beija-flor-tesoura drinking from a takeaway cup and a sabiá-laranjeira nesting on a pile of coffee capsules.
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How the neighbors were made, in 30 seconds.
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Love the 30-second breakdown of how the CANTIN neighbors came together, process reels like this are so satisfying to watch 🎨
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Thanks, Aly! Each tin in the video starts as one of the labels, so it was fun to build it piece by piece.
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Amazing!
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Thanks, Lauro!
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Excelente!
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Valeu, Gabriel! Obrigado por passar aqui.
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