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The Human Input
Creative technology, directed by people.
Grace Wales Bonner treats the archive as a design method
Her work across clothing, exhibitions, publishing, and research shows an archive acting less like storage and more like a system for making cultural relationships visible.
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Luma Dream Machine
Luma's Dream Machine documentation covers image and video creation. Its Ray3 Modify guide describes changing an input shot with character references and keyframes, with a strength control for the degree of transformation. That workflow gives a director specific choices to review across the shot. Luma also publishes a newer Luma Agents app guide and separate Ray3.2 API documentation; their controls and account terms need their own scope checks.
CLO
Designers use CLO to edit 2D garment patterns and simulate their drape on a 3D avatar. Print Layout supports print placement and fabric-consumption calculations. In AI Studio, designers can develop textures or generate fashion images, including try-on and flat-lay views. Those image workflows serve a different production decision from checking a pattern: a convincing generated garment image does not establish the fit or construction of a physical sample.
Google develops Search, Gemini and creative tools including Flow. Its services touch both video production and the ways publishers reach readers. For creative businesses, those roles create separate decisions about making work and allowing Google to use published material. Publishers can use the Google-Extended robots.txt token to control specified future Gemini training and grounding uses. Google says this choice does not affect inclusion or ranking in ordinary Search. A separate Search Console setting governs appearance and grounding in generative Search features. Google reports worldwide rollout by August 31, 2026, and says sites that opt out lose traffic and impressions from those features. A publisher should assess those choices against the uses it wants to permit and the audience it expects to reach. A company-wide label such as “AI opt-out” obscures the differences between products; each setting needs its own scope check.
Runway Gen-4 Image References
Runway's Gen-4 Image References lets a creator guide a new still image with up to three reference images. Creators can save named references, share them with a workspace, or draw over an image to indicate composition and object placement. Runway recommends iteration for complex changes. A creative team can use the workflow to explore treatment frames, then inspect whether the selected result preserves the product details and likenesses the brief requires.
Google Flow
Google Flow is Google's video-generation and editing tool. You can generate clips from prompts or supplied images and use a supported model to edit uploaded or generated video. With Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, you can set opening and closing frames on the web, choose clips of four, six, eight or ten seconds, and edit videos up to ten seconds. Google lists extension for that model as forthcoming. Google's August 27 update announced 1080p and 4K export alongside 360p drafting. Its help documentation specifies that Omni 360p generation costs half the credits of 720p; Pro and Ultra subscribers can upscale those drafts to 720p for zero credits. Some features depend on region. For a creative team, these controls separate shot planning from final delivery. Opening and closing images establish endpoints; the team still needs to review movement and product detail between them. An export resolution alone establishes no level of visual fidelity.
People & Studios
Julia Koerner
Designer / JK Design founder
A designer and founder of JK Design GmbH working across architecture, fashion and 3D fabrication. Her published projects document computational garment design, printed textiles and costume collaborations.
Selected opportunities
Creative Technologist (contract)
Instrument. United States. Remote eligible
Creative Technologist
Superside. Global. Remote eligible
Academic Lead (3D Design & Implementation), CLO - Munich
CLO Virtual Fashion. Munich