Graphic designers are trying to fix people's terrible AI flyers
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Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter You might have noticed flyers for small businesses starting to look the same in recent months, not because everyone's jumping on one of the big graphic design trends of 2026, but because of a technology. AI-generated flyers are everywhere, and they're replacing the great tradition of folk design built in Photoshop or Microsoft Paint.Suddenly everything from your local church's car boot sale to the food truck on the pavement outside it is presenting itself with AI-generated visuals. And despite the theoretically infinite creative possibilities that AI image generators afford, most of them look mediocre, if not outright traumatic when it comes to AI menus and food imagery.On social media, graphic designers are trying to make the world see sense.Latest Videos FromCreative BloqWatch full video here: A post shared by Ello Design Studio (@ellostudio.co)A photo posted by on The vast array of AI flyers cropping up all over social media and even printed in physical form suggests that many small businesses see such assets in purely informational terms: an inconvenience needed to communicate a product or service rather than a vital piece of branding that can say a lot about a business and the people behind it.The fightback is in full swing on Instagram and YouTube, with a recent flurry of posts and videos that seek to highlight that ethical issues and simply the cheap generic look of AI-generated visuals could put customers off.Designers and illustrators are also taking AI-generated flyers from the internet and trying to show how they would have approached the brief, leading to much more unique, eye-catching and coherent results. I Redesigned the WORST AI Flyers I could find - YouTube Watch On A post shared by Ale | Diseñador Gráfico (@arvmstudio)A photo posted by on A post shared by isobelllSource: Creative Bloq AI Art — Published — Category: Image AI