A customer sent art. Three trucks, a company logo, a CAT mascot, a tree line. 1618 by 1872 pixels. The truck numbers don’t match from bumper to door. The badge on the grille is a smear. The headline logo doesn’t say “Trucking.” It’s AI-generated, and it’s customer-supplied, so you fix it. I recorded the whole…
The Shirt Board has argued about AI art since October 2022. I went back through every thread on it, including two new ones from October 2026. Here’s the rundown. Read in order, they tell a clearer story than any single post does. TBT Four Years of AI Art Talk on The Shirt Board 2022: Can…
Every shop has a place where problems land. Art came in low-res. The PMS doesn’t match. The proof went out with the wrong ink color. Maybe someone posts it. Someone fixes it. The message scrolls up and nobody counts. But the history is still there. °FAI: Your Art Channel Already Knows What’s Broken. Here’s how…
Once you deploy a decision tree, you can do more than run it. You can ask it why. SMEme answers from logic, not a guess, so it can tell you which facts decided a job and what would change the outcome. °FAI: Ask the Tree, Own the Tree. Part 1 covered why rules don’t belong…
In March 2015, at the end of trade show season, Rick Roth posted Reflections at the End of the Trade Show Season. Most of it is booth photos. The first paragraph is a prediction. Rick named the two big trends of the previous ten years: digital printing and environmental concerns. Then he called the next…
You don’t write code to build a decision tree with AI in SMEme. You build it in the chatbot you already use, with prompts SMEme gives you on its quick start page. °FAI: How to Build a Decision Tree. Part 1 covered why tribal knowledge doesn’t stick in a prompt. Here, I’ll show how SMEme…
SMEme adds a reasoning layer to the AI chatbot you already use. A human expert builds a decision tree and writes the questions, branches, and outcomes in plain language. SMEme compiles that tree into logic and hands it to a constraint solver. When a case comes in, the chatbot finds the facts in your files…
I went to Printing United in September to find out where AI actually is in the workflow tools, so far its Software that doesn’t remember. I stopped at a booth selling print workflow software to the paper printing industry. The rep walked me through it. What it does The software sits between the customer’s file…
This is a Throwback Thursday and a little bit of Fahrenheit AI AI generative art. In April 2025, Apparelist published my article, AI Generative Art in 2025: Integration, Ethics, and Originality. This year, The Academy membership selected it as the overall 2026 Dave Swormstedt Sr. Memorial Award winner. It also won Best-in-Class for Apparel Textile…
Karen Hao asked John Borthwick at CUNY whether we are in an AI bubble, and he said “absolutely.” Borthwick runs Betaworks and has lived through two of these cycles already. He calls this a productive bubble, like the railroads or the fiber buildout: too much money goes in, things break, and the survivors inherit the…
