Designing a Band Logo with ChatGPT

We are living in the future. Srsly. In past bands, I’ve always worked with humans to design assets for my music projects. But ChatGPT’s DALL-E image generator has been quite the fad recently, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about.

If this were a tech blog, I’d write all about crafting the perfect prompt and limitations in the AI model’s ability to make small adjustments to an existing generated image. But this isn’t a tech blog. Instead I’ll say that nothing ChatGPT was able to spit out was perfect. Most of the images were cluttered with numerous idiosyncratic details and psychedelic “artifacts”. (Tbh, not the worst problem for a band like ours, but still.)

But in the words of Ursula, the Sea Witch, “I fortunately know a little PhotoShop.” (I think that’s what she said.) So psychedelic artifacts are no match for me. In the end, after 21 draft images, I was able to salvage two and print them as stickers. I’m curious to hear from you:

  • Which image do you like the best?
  • Would you wear a t-shirt with either of these designs on it?
  • Would you want to hire a band with this logo for your wedding or corporate event?

Let us know in the comments! ♥

The Yacht Dogs Logo featuring dog people from space performing on a stage with a sailboat spaceship hovering in the background
The Yacht Dogs Sirius Fun logo featuring musical instruments set up on a stage floating in the water, with a fancy sailboat in the background and a psychedelic sunset. In the sky we see the constellations Orion and Canis Major. Sirius, aka The Dog Star is the brightest star in the sky