The article <a href="https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html" author="John Hartnup" source="'ERE I AM - JH!" date="June 7, 2026">AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible</a> is quite refreshingly helpful. <bq>The sharp-eyed are still going to recognise these as AI-generated, but they’re distinctive, and I think they’re not ugly. So that’s the moral - <b>you don’t have to make posters that look like everyone else’s.</b> There’s a further step - you don’t have to ask AI for posters as images that can’t be edited. <b>Claude and Gemini can generate HTML, PNG, PDF, where the text is real text, layers are real layers, you can change fonts, move things around, edit the text</b> [...]</bq> This is great news, of course! And the follow-up archive of 100 <a href="https://john.hartnup.uk/poster-prompts/">Poster Prompts</a> that is truly a treasure trove. It includes samples as well as the prompts that he used! This hero put together <bq><b>One hundred design styles as copy-paste prompts for ChatGPT image generation.</b> Each page shows the prompt alongside an example of what it produces — for two events: a village fête and a music gig. Some look great in my opinion. Some still look like slop, but with some tweaking they could be fixed for a specific event. In aggregate, they demonstrate the breadth of style available.</bq> What a treasure trove! What a hero! <img attachment="poster-bauhaus-attempt.webp" align="left" caption="Bauhaus poster for a Spring Fayre"><img attachment="poster-japanese-minimal.webp" align="left" caption="Japanese Minimal poster for a Spring Fayre"><img attachment="poster-cubist-exhibition.webp" align="left" caption="Cubist Exhibition poster for a Spring Fayre">