A combination of digital art and graphic design, they have managed to create innovative appliances designed in the Gaudi style.
Antoni Gaudí is one of the greatest masters who has inspired the most iconic buildings and monuments of Barcelona, for which it is widely recognized in the world.
Now, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, several images of the Spanish architect were taken to inspire the design of accessories and appliances.
The initiative to apply the Gaudí style, the aesthetics and form of the artist’s works to everyday elements was the idea of graphic designer Marcus Byrne. Byrne is an Australian-born digital artist and visual storyteller.
What would appliances designed in the Gaudi style look like?
In order to get the answer, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generator software was used.
In this way, he was able to reconstruct household appliances in the image of Antoni Gaudí’s architectural aesthetics. He managed to capture the intricate and ostentatious forms that were highly acclaimed during the 20th century and that synthesized different styles such as neo-Gothic, Catalan modernism and art nouveau.
Thanks to AI, the images created in the experimental and digital art project were able to capture the curvilinear, organic shapes and intense colors characteristic of the master’s works.
It is very curious and impressive to see a hair dryer with the aesthetics of Gaudi, a coffee maker or a toaster, an iron, vacuum cleaner, among other objects.
The technique used by Marcus Byrne managed to combine text and image software (Midjourney and Photoshop).
With this, he managed to bring to life the project that includes the most extravagant versions of everyday appliances, but in the Gaudí style.
It should be clarified that these are not real designs translated into physical objects, but visual versions that make the imagination fly to think about how these accessories would look like with the Gaudí style.
And Byrne thought of this project to go against the grain of Apple and Tesla whose products emphasize minimalist design.
With Gaudí everything is different. The designer was inspired by the architectural style of the Spanish master and succeeded in capturing in images appliances with fluid shapes and textured surfaces.
Antoni Gaudí was the inspiration for Marcus Byrne’s project.
Antoni Gaudí (Reus, Spain, 1852/1926) is the architect and artist considered the symbol of the Catalan modernist movement.
But his work is more than this title, because his legacy, appreciated in the monuments and other constructions, is of another level. All thanks to the originality of its conceptions and the ability to break schemes and molds to create new solutions.
Gaudí obtained the title of architect in 1878 and years later he was appointed architect of the expiatory temple of the Sagrada Familia.
