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The Future of Sport & AI
Selected work
G42 × The Future Laboratory

The Future of Sport & AI

An AI-native editorial where the prompt became the design system.

AI · EDITORIAL · CREATIVE DIRECTION
Client
G42 × The Future Laboratory
Year
2025
Role
Creative Direction · AI Image Direction · Editorial
Discipline
AI Editorial
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Overview

The prompt became the design system

A future-trends report on AI in sport that had to look the future, not just describe it. The editorial spreads, campaign stills and hero film all extended from a single prompt language tuned for cinematic consistency.

The approach

Architect the prompt as a system, a fixed grammar of subject, lighting, camera and finish, so thousands of generations read as one campaign, then cull to the few that carry the argument.

Discipline
AI Editorial · Creative Direction · AI Image Direction
Role
Creative Direction, client side
Client
G42 × The Future Laboratory
The published report, open to an interior spread
How the work lives in the published report.
The report in print
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Selected frames

The campaign, at a glance

A cut of the strongest frames up front. One prompt language, many subjects, one campaign.

Campaign still
Campaign still
Campaign still
Campaign still
Campaign still
Campaign still
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The spreads

One hand, every page

Editorial spreads and campaign stills, every frame generated from the same grammar. Drag through the set.

Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Editorial spread
Scroll sideways, it loops
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In motion

From stills to film, one grade

The same language set into motion, holding the grade from image to film.

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The system

Not one lucky image. A repeatable recipe.

The look pinned down as a grammar, then thousands of generations culled the way you would edit a photo shoot. The repeated frames here are deliberate: they show how the campaign images were actually made.

It starts with a moodboard, pinned down as a repeatable recipe.
A fixed grammar of subject, lighting, camera and finish. Only the subject changes.
The cull: thousands of generations narrowed to the handful that carry the argument.
Chosen frames composed and set into motion on a node-based canvas.
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Outcome

The talking-point asset

The films and stills outran the white-paper format and carried the report's argument further than the text alone.

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