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What if the glass of 1900 became the material of everything we touch today?
I built a custom Recraft V4 Style from two pieces of glass at the MAK, Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna: an anonymous Bohemian vase in cobalt and gold iridescent glass, donated in 1902, and an English opal glass vase with fine spun threads from before 1900. From the first vase I took the deep blue and silver sheen that shifts at the edges; from the second, the milky translucency and the thin threads that flow inside the glass and glow warm amber at the centre. Both references were cropped to their surfaces so the style learns the material, not the shape of the vases.
Then I let that glass take over modern life: app icons, office and studio interiors, jewellery and clothing, a fashion lookbook, illustrated city scenes, logos, and a poster series built on internet slang, from Doomscrolling and Brain Rot to Soft Launch and Touch Grass. One material from 1900, applied across photo, illustration, icon, logo and graphic design, shows how Art Nouveau glass can still feel like the future.
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it definitely deserved a comeback, so i turned it into a Recraft Style, and use it to draw things Martin would never have imagined, like modern fashion wears, techs and appliances.
there's alot in my recraft project, check it out through the link.
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LUDUS MAGNUS — Modern Life, Unearthed
What would remain of our everyday lives if someone unearthed them centuries from now?
Inspired by the Getty Museum’s Statue of an Athlete, LUDUS MAGNUS imagines a museum of our present: ten classical marble sculptures preserving the ways we play, move, escape, connect and dream.
A basketball player hangs forever before the shot; a breakdancer balances upside down beside a stone boombox; a woman raises her phone to capture a moment that has already outlived her.
Built around a custom Recraft Style drawn from the archive sculpture’s pale marble, weathered surfaces, irregular fractures and quiet museum lighting, the collection carries these familiar gestures into an imagined archaeological future, where a surfboard, a vinyl record, a VR headset or a drone becomes a clue to the lives once lived around it.
Across all ten works, chipped stone and missing limbs leave the viewer to complete the movement—to recognise the ambition in a leap, the intimacy of listening, the desire to be remembered, and the enduring human impulse to reach beyond ourselves.
The objects tell us when. The gestures tell us who.
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Ten posters. Modern rituals, ancient marble.
Press-on nails are my modern take 😊
I made one Recraft Style that draws press-on nails as if a mineral painter from 1810 had drawn them.
Many people do their nails now: at home, in minutes, a new set whenever they feel like it. Small brands sell them all over TikTok and Pinterest, and they need designs nobody else has. This Style gives them 200-year-old ones.
I trained it on six of James Sowerby's hand-painted rock prints (1802 to 1817), plus a gold ring and a stone table from the Met.
Try it in 3 steps 👍
1. Open the Style and paste: "Five almond press-on nails on cream paper, red jasper with gold veins, one nail with a small gold cabochon." Change "red jasper with gold veins" to try another stone, like "pale pink stone with dark red speckles".
2. Remove the Style, add your drawing as a reference, and paste: "Make these real press-on nails, same colors, white background"
3. Add the set as a reference and paste: "Hands covering the face, wearing these exact nails, red jasper with gold veins, white background"