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🏛️ The Museum of the Rejected
A fictional museum where every artwork was generated by AI—but every decision was made by a human.
My submission for the @envato Human by Design Challenge, exploring the invisible layer of creativity: taste, judgment, and storytelling.
You can check it out here and let me know which exhibit stayed with you the longest.
Instagram Link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da-kF2MtaHS/
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What if the most beautiful creations were never chosen?
For this challenge, I wanted to explore the part of...
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This is my submission, EditorialGen. I created
a fictive Envato AI tool that focuses on the concept of Human by Design to turn
your plain photos into editorial-worth artwork. EditorialGen was born through the
fusion of ImageGen and VideoGen, two tools that I use daily on all sorts of
projects, both for the projects of my clients and my own. This tool allows you
to implement your human judgment at each step of the process in order to
achieve art that is truly HUMAN and shares your identity and talent. Made with
the assistance of the most specific features for your editorial photography.
Please watch till the end. And also watch the video of my creative process. You
will LAUGH and maybe learn something.
Don’t forget to hit that upgoat button! 🐐
I want to thank Contra and Envato, and everybody who participates in this
challenge. And I am grateful for extending the duration of the challenge. I
needed all the extra time, as you can tell by my late submission.
Enjoy and good luck to all participants!
Best,
Dan
Ngl the staging and editing on this is genuinely so well done, you can tell every shot was actually thought through and not just thrown together. The performance and characterization are on point too — exaggerated in all the right places but still feels grounded in what you're...
Human by Design
This project explores the relationship between human creativity and AI—not as competitors, but as collaborators.
Rather than creating a fully AI-generated film, I focused on documenting a real creative workflow.
The screen recordings of ChatGPT and Envato are real, and most of the visuals were created using Envato Elements assets. AI was intentionally used for only a small number of cinematic shots to support the narrative, while the creative direction, research, prompt development, editing, and storytelling remained human-led.
ChatGPT served as a creative collaborator throughout the project, helping me refine the concept, structure the narrative, improve prompts, and strengthen the overall story.
The goal wasn't to show what AI can create alone—but what humans can create when they know how to direct it.
Proud to submit this project for the Envato × Contra AI Creative Challenge.
#HumanByDesign #Contra #Envato #AI #CreativeDirection #PromptEngineering #DesignProcess #GenerativeAI
This caught my attention immediately. The transitions are really well executed. I'm curious—what part of the creative process took the longest for you?
Human By Design
Every masterpiece begins with a single idea.
From the first architectural sketches of ancient civilizations to the iconic structures of the modern world, humanity has always transformed imagination into reality.
Human By Design explores this journey through the evolution of a simple pencil stroke.
A single line becomes a geometric idea.
The idea becomes a blueprint.
The blueprint becomes architecture.
And architecture becomes the future.
Using AI as a creative tool, I explored how human vision and technology can work together to transform concepts into cinematic experiences. Each chapter represents a different expression of human creativity — knowledge, harmony, beauty, ambition, innovation, and the possibilities of tomorrow.
The final future city represents the next chapter of design: a world where creativity, technology, and humanity continue to evolve together.
Human By Design is a tribute to the imagination that turns simple ideas into extraordinary realities.
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Guoshuai Zhang
This is absolutely stunning. I really love how you turned a single pencil stroke into the evolution of human civilization. The storytelling, pacing, and visual transitions all feel incredibly cinematic. Beautiful work!