As I Remember Them Lehen Funtzioa: Arte Sortzailea by Bowen Shen

As I Remember Them Lehen Funtzioa: Arte Sortzailea by Bowen Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award in Diseinu Sortzaile, Algoritmiko, Parametriko eta AA Lagundua Competition Category.

BrontzeDiseinu Sortzailea· 2026

As I Remember Them Lehen Funtzioa: Arte Sortzailea

by Bowen Shen

Client: Bowen Shen

Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Diseinu Sortzailea Category

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The Design

About As I Remember Them Lehen Funtzioa: Arte Sortzailea

Liburuaren Testua: Arte sortzailearen serie honek haurtzaroko eguneroko uneak irudikatzen ditu IAren laguntzaz egindako irudigintzaren bidez. Lanak eskolako jolasaldia, etxeko uda arratsalde lasaiak eta Urteberri ospakizunak bezalako eszenetan jartzen du arreta, Txina iparraldeko bizipenetatik abiatuta. Gidatutako proposamenen eta eskuzko edizio bisualaren bidez sortua, serieak errealismoa lehenesten du, oroimenak xehetasun zehatza baino sentimendua nola gordetzen duen islatzen duten irregulartasun bisual sotilak onartzen dituen bitartean.

The Recognition

About the Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award

As I Remember Them Lehen Funtzioa: Arte Sortzailea Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, sormenak, asmamenak eta zorroztasunak bereizten dituzten diseinu bikainei ematen zaien aitorpen oso prestijiotsua. Brontze-mailako irabazleak trebetasunez beteriko eta nabarmenki sortzaileak diren artefaktuak dira, beren diseinatzaileen esperientzia zabala, irudimena eta ekimena egiaztatzen dutenak. As I Remember Them Lehen Funtzioa: Arte Sortzailea oso estimatua, miretsia eta maitea den objektua izatea espero da, nabarmenki profesionala eta berritzailea dena. Brontzezko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu honek artearen, zientziaren, diseinuaren eta teknologiaren praktika onenak biltzen ditu eta xehetasunei ematen dien arretagatik bikaina da. As I Remember Them Lehen Funtzioa: Arte Sortzailea beharrak bikain asetzen dituen, desirak ukitzen dituen, sentimenduak xarmatzen dituen eta jakin-mina erakartzen duen lana da.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: As I Remember Them is a generative art series that visualizes fragments of memory, emotion, and longing. It is an attempt to reconstruct the past through the lens of imagination.
Dimensions & Packaging: 1856 x 2464px image series
Tags: Generative AI art, Nostalgia, Childhood memories, Northern China, Visual storytelling, MidJourney, Photoshop, Digital art
Production Technology: This series was created with MidJourney, using iterative prompting and reference-based descriptions to shape culturally specific scenes. Outputs were then refined in Photoshop through compositing, retouching, and color adjustments, ensuring the final work aligned with my artistic vision and emotional intent.
Design Challenge: The greatest challenge was translating personal, culturally specific memories into AI-generated images. MidJourney lacked context for the textures of Northern Chinese life, requiring me to break scenes into elements, source references, and iteratively refine prompts. Balancing realism with the quirks of AI output, and deciding when to embrace its distortions, was both the obstacle and the creative breakthrough.
Research: Process documentation: https://bit.ly/49OvkvG

Type of Research: Practice-based creative research.
Research Objectives: To explore how AI can represent personal and culturally specific memories.
Methodology: Iterative visual experimentation and technical study.
Data Collection and Tools: Memory recall, curated reference images, MidJourney style parameters, prompting techniques, Photoshop.
Participants or Experiments: Repeated prompt and image generation cycles.
Results: Increased control over style, detail, and emotional accuracy.
Insights and Impacts: Structured prompting reduces emotional flatness in AI art.
Real Life Effects: Encourages more human-centered AI use in design and visual storytelling.
Inspiration: Bothered by how often GenAI outputs felt soulless, the project set out to render a deeply soulful subject, the emotional landscape of childhood.

I grew up in Northern China, in a hometown changed by time and distance. Through prompting, storytelling, and hands-on editing, I recreated scenes that linger in me: recess, summer solitude, New Year warmth, while embracing GenAI quirks that reflect how memory distorts and softens.
Project Duration: The project was created virtually over the span of one month in January 2025.
Operation Flow: The generative art is experienced through sequential viewing. Each image presents a self-contained moment, allowing viewers to pause, observe, and form personal associations. The series encourages slow viewing rather than interaction through controls, inviting audiences to connect individual scenes to their own memories and emotional experiences.