Learn from West Ottawa Interact Club how it's done!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been prominent in the news lately, depicted often as a useful tool or a path to ending civilization. Employing the useful tool approach, one Interact Club in District 6290 used AI to help create a remarkable t-shirt design.
West Ottawa Interact Club
The West Ottawa High School Interact Club decided to design shirts for club members and to sell some shirts to raise money for three water safety projects:
- Local water safety in Holland, Michigan
- Support swim lessons in Pago Pago, American Samoa
- Support swim lessons in Hua Hin, Thailand
Note that West Ottawa is working on these water projects with Holland Noon Rotary Club (Elizabeth Giddings, President), Pago Pago Rotary Club (Katrina Mariner, President) and Hua Hin Rotary Club (Phil Lawrence, President).
Interact Social Media Director Joey Skerbeck came up with initial ideas for the shirt design. He suggested adding a turtle and palm trees. Rotary Club of Holland Noon member Chuck Warren mentioned this was symbolic; in American Samoan folklore, turtles save the lives of fishermen lost at sea.
Interact Board Chair Andrew Elwood (son of Rotaractor Charles Elwood) used Midjourney AI software to help create the logo for the back of the shirts.
Setting Up Midjourney
- Set up account and pay $10 a month. (Midjourney resides on a Discord server.)
- Log in to Discord.
- Chat with the Midjouney bot.
- Enter “/imagine” and then follow that with a description of the image that you want Midjourney AI to create
- Here is an example of the prompts used to generate the way-cool turtle.
“simple green turtle silhouette tshirt logo, white background, simplistic”
The Turtle
Palm trees and other design elements were added, and Ryan Parrish and his father quoted the project. Then Ryan’s team cleaned up the logo and added text. Here is the outstanding design:
Awesome project, West Ottawa High School Interact Club!
Design and production costs were paid via a Public Image grant from Rotary District 6290.