Humans Designed This

Artist Interest Form

The Project

Humans Designed This is a referral network for paid, human-made graphic design. The goal is to make it easier for organizations and small businesses to work with real artists instead of relying on generic, low-quality AI-generated visuals. Right now, the project is focused on building an early local group of artists.

The Humans

We are currently looking for adult artists and designers who create: flyers, posters, social media graphics, event graphics, and other visual promotion materials. Artists should be comfortable discussing project scope, rates, and timelines directly with clients.

The Process

Artists join an early network by sharing basic information. As project requests come in, referrals will be made based on fit, style, and availability. Artists and clients will discuss project details directly. Humans Designed This builds and maintains the referral network.

The Why

Humans Designed This exists to support paid, human-made design work. Artists bring judgment, intention, and visual decision-making that generic created graphics cannot replace. Good design is not only about producing an image, but about how people read, trust, and respond to what they see.

The Data

People make visual judgments fast. Research cited by Nielsen Norman Group found aesthetic judgments can happen in as little as 50 milliseconds. At the same time, 77% of business leaders say visual communication increases business performance, and 56% of creative professionals say generative AI can harm creators when their work is used without consent.

The Cost

AI-generated design may seem convenient and cheap at the point of use, but it is not cost-free. The cost can show up in the use of artists’ work without consent, in generic or less effective visual communication, and in the loss of paid opportunities for human designers. What looks free on the surface often shifts the cost somewhere else.

The Response

Humans Designed This is pro-responsibility. Responsible use means being honest about how work is made, respecting artists’ labor and rights, and recognizing that convenience is not the same as care. It also means remembering that digital systems have environmental costs, including rising energy demand from data centers that drain water resources and pollute our air. 

Humans Designed This is being developed by Geneva Sambor as an early-stage project focused on building a more respectful path for human-made design.