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CommentaryMay 06, 2026

On Designing With AI, Not Around It

The most interesting question in studio practice right now is not whether to use AI, but where authorship sits when the tools accelerate everything except taste.

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Speed is not the point

The temptation with generative tools is to treat them as a speed dial: more variations, faster turnaround, cheaper drafts. That framing misses what actually moves work forward. Speed only matters if it buys more iterations on the decisions that count: composition, restraint, the moment a system clicks into coherence.

AI speed without human taste produces more of the wrong thing, faster. The discipline is knowing which decisions to keep for yourself.

Authorship stays human

Across our immersive and AI-driven work, the constant is that the studio still owns the judgement. The tools widen the field of possibility; the work of narrowing it back down to a single, confident answer remains a human act, and it is the part clients are actually paying for.