Aryze's picture rules, and the drawings I made to them
In autumn 2025 I wrote the rules for how Aryze's pictures should look, and made the pictures to them in ChatGPT, among them the history of money in ten chalk drawings.
- 10chalk drawings of the history of money, made in one day
- My role
- Wrote the picture rules and made the pictures to them in ChatGPT
- When
- September to November 2025
- Made with
- Result
- Three of the drawings went into the November 2025 design of aryze.io's home page.
In September 2025 Aryze got a new look, and I wrote the rules for its pictures. My note from 21 September asked for charcoal on black, a globe, a longship and a single rune mark, and it banned coins, rockets, padlocks and fake matrix rain.
The rebrand's visual system: colour tokens, Fraunces, Inter and IBM Plex Mono type, illustration, icons, motion and ready-to-use CSS tokens.
On 17 October I wrote the full visual guide and let the coin back in, under strict rules: white chalk on near black, one subject per frame, and one test against clutter, "If it looks like a poster, you added too much."
In July I had written an essay called The Evolution of Money, with seven flat icons on its cover, from barter to digital money. On 24 October I told the same history again in ten chalk drawings, from wheat and an old coin to a card terminal, a bridge and the euro.
Ten drawings made in ChatGPT on 24 October 2025, white chalk on black, from wheat and an old coin to a card terminal, a bridge and the euro.
On 3 November I made eight more pictures for the website in one morning, and seven of them had people in them: hands over charts and a calculator, an engineer with a tablet, two people laughing over a screen. I used them as they came out, without editing.
Eight chalk pictures for Aryze's website, made in ChatGPT in one morning on 3 November 2025 and used without editing.