Human-First Creator

Joshua Vermillion

Joshua Vermillion is an award-winning designer, scholar and educator, a professor in the School of Architecture at UNLV, who since the arrival of latent diffusion models has experimented with AI to produce thousands of speculative spatial imaginaries and AI-scripted generative sketches and animations. His Instagram feed shows fictional machine-rendered architecture: monumental stick-bundle halls, rust-coloured canyon streets, cave-like rooms. His faculty bio credits him with the first AI/photography hybrid fashion magazine cover and editorial for Harper's BAZAAR, and says he has partnered with Samsung, Microsoft, Sony Music, Jaguar Land Rover, ELLE Decor and Architectural Digest. AD Middle East lists him among AI artists to follow.