An Adobe MAX 2024 Sneak: generative AI in Illustrator that turns a rough sketch into an editable layout and remixes it to any size.
- Adobe MAX 2024 Sneaks, 15 Oct 2024
- Adobe Illustrator
- Technology preview (Sneak), not shipped
- Fast Company exclusive preview
Project Remix A Lot was shown as a Sneak at Adobe MAX 2024 on 15 October 2024. It is a generative-AI technology preview for Adobe Illustrator that turns a rough sketch into a fully editable layout. In the demo, a hand-drawn Halloween party poster became a polished design in one click, then was remixed into an Instagram post, a standing banner and wider custom sizes, and even onto an odd-shaped event ticket.
A separate draft took on the look of an old poster that survived only as a PNG, using it as a layout style reference. Text, colours and images stay editable throughout. The Sneak earned an exclusive Fast Company preview, and users publicly asked Adobe to ship it. It remains a technology preview.
What I did
- I'm one of the inventors behind Project Remix A Lot; a colleague presented it on stage at MAX.
- I helped shape the idea, built core technical pieces of the demo and made the assets for its demo video at MAX 2024.
- I'm a named inventor on Adobe patent applications for generating layered designs from sketches and re-laying out designs for new aspect ratios.
Patents
- Generating design layouts with different aspect ratios using a custom generative transformer model
- Generating layered digital designs from sketches using deep learning
- Automated inference and evaluation of design relations for elements of a design