# say milady design process

## notes on design process

Notes on the design process.

In April we began with the idea of a typographical project for banners. We thought, what could we add to that to make it more interesting and unsurprisingly, came up with, Milady. In the sense of a greeting. The initial thought had been gm because one of us had the domain rare gm – but we wanted something a little less generic. The idea of milady being a greeting, a response was becoming more apparent. Yoo to miladyresponder for going hard with ‘milady’ all over the tl. Love miladyresponder.

i’d started collecting Remilios and zoomed in and marvelled at the fine pixel bitmap detailing. As well as pixeladies – both a reminder of the pace and fractal beauty of pixels. Initially we’d been playing with backgrounds similar to Milady and with a drive full of our own photos we tried those out – one morning chonking out a hundred original background images. We’ve saved these for later although a couple have snuck in to this first release.

However, within hours the link to milady sonora’s are.na appeared and we got distracted falling down the mj rabbithole.

We tried mixing their images with prompts including japanese doll, magical, sherbert, alice in wonderland and cinderella. There was no obvious rhyme or reason to the prompts apart from going with the first thing that came to mind and letting it happen. This was a fun, quick side-project after all (right).

The next set we asked mj for vintage walkmen crossed with this source image:

We have a sherbert theme going on. Pink and green what’s not to like.

After the walkman effort we set our sights on Soviet era control rooms and supercomputers.

Sherbert stayed in the prompt and sweet shop supercomputers were born.

and secret pachinko parlours on the ginza. again this was a name that decided upon itself. along with the rest of the channelled naming system. it was fun to later discover a milady artist with pachinko in her name :)

With a consuming interest in Pixelady Maker accessories they became the say milady daemons – just a few of our faves. Especially the pink ones.

onwards through the art direction from the are.na – japanese magazine covers

one morning we had a splendid burst of super good images from the ai including giant pink hello kitty supercomputer from a russian control room

With the ai having a good run as so often happens first thing of the day this doll produced a banger –

This doll produced some really cute pieces with her knitted jumper – love the knitted jumper – together with matching starry skies.

This is my fave doll made during the entire process and signalled we were ready to shippe our first fun experiment – and onwards to the next stage of building the minting site and figure out how the smart contract stuff all worked, soon to be covered in our next post…