Also, one of the prompt examples:

peach slice, realistic advertising photo, perfect white background, floating in the air, highly detailed, full body, high quality, studio lighting, 3d rendering style, no shadows, movie style texture, minimalistic, professionally color graded

And here is some wonky generative stuff which makes you feel like gen-AI is a vile genie granting you a wish, but always with ‘a little twist’.

Unless you specify every minor detail.

9/9

Why is cumin an ‘Italian spice’?

Glad you asked. Or you didn't.

Anyway, fun fact: currently, cumin isn’t as common in Italian cuisine, but it has been in the Roman Empire. Sounds as weird as the fact that they adopted tomatoes only 200 years ago.

8/9

Here are more things you don’t expect to find in a cup of tea. That’s where the search for visual metaphors got hard:

What do umami and fermentation look like?

Not sure. But I tried to visually balance abstraction and realism and align them with others.

7/9

These are my favourites.

For the notes like sugar, salt or powder, I went full macro and tried to find a perspective we rarely see otherwise.

I researched the macro shots and prompted most of these things without their original names since it completely skewed the results.

6/9

Tutti frutti!

I tried to keep consistent angles, light, and details on all icons to make them work in different layouts and scales, from marketing closeups to zoom-outs in tea descriptions.

5/9

Flowers, fruits, and nuts were easy, but I found some details so impressive, especially with proper prompts.

Meanwhile, some things I imagined to be easy peasy turned out to be challenging—for example, a ‘SINGLE pumpkin seed’.

4/9

We didn’t need all the notes, but only the ones found in Japanese green teas: matcha, sencha, hojicha, etc.

And we definitely didn't want to go with the usual stock image circles. So, I proposed to prompt our way through.

3/9

A bit of a context:

The first official tasting notes originated in the wine industry and then transitioned to the coffee and tea ones. So, they are classified in a similar way.

Here is a visualisation wheel from ITMA with all the tea notes.

2/9

this is even funnier when you realise that it’s exactly how phones quick-charge… they literally have 2 smaller batteries charging together.

so, not even a new patent, isn’t it?