01 / Brand visual
Find the expression.
Explore atmosphere, materials and daylight. Use the current image as a reference to make small, deliberate changes instead of starting over.
Google × VELUX / Generative AI workshop
From a creative brief
to a story in daylight.
I built Daylight Studio and helped facilitate a hands-on workshop, giving VELUX teams a way to turn ideas into images and short films.
- My role
- AI engineering & lab facilitation
- With
- Artefact, Google & VELUX
- Where
- Google’s Dublin office
- When
- September 2026
01 / The challenge
Make the idea
tangible.
A useful AI workshop needs more than a prompt box. People need a clear path from their intention to something they can discuss, change and share.
For the Google × VELUX GenAI Summit, the creative task centred on the possibilities of daylight in the home. Participants explored how a brief could become a visual direction, a concrete room transformation and a short film.
I built a bespoke web application for that flow and joined the Artefact team in facilitating the hands-on lab. The focus was on making creative iteration understandable and practical.
02 / The product
One intention.
Three ways to explore it.
Daylight Studio starts with a brief: who the work is for, what it should communicate and what the participant wants to make. That intention carries through each creative task.
02 / Product placement
Make it concrete.
Start with an existing room and show what a product change could look like. Keep the original alongside the result for a direct comparison.
03 / Film
Give the brief a story.
Plan shots, generate stills, animate the sequence and add a soundtrack. Review the result as one film, ready to download and share.
03 / A concrete example
Same room.
A different possibility.
This prepared example adds two roof windows to an unfinished loft while preserving the room, viewpoint and existing details. The change is easy to see and easy to talk about.
Move the slider to compare the original reference and generated concept.
Original roomGenerated concept04 / The prepared film
A room she loves.
Five six-second shots follow a fictional loft transformation, from an unused room to a place to sit and enjoy the daylight.
30 seconds · AI-generated imagery and instrumental music · No dialogueDownload film ↓
Read the visual description
An adult woman explores an unfinished attic. The story moves forward to roof-window installation, then to a furnished reading room. She settles into an armchair and enjoys the daylight. The closing frame carries VELUX branding. This is a prepared, fictional workshop example.
05 / Behind the experience
The details that
make it usable.
I treated continuity, persistence and sharing as part of the creative experience.
Connected shots
A continuing shot uses the previous clip’s actual final frame as its starting image. Deliberate cuts mark changes in time or setting, such as a jump from installation to the finished room.
Work that stays put
Browser storage keeps participants’ work between sessions. Sharing is an explicit action, so the gallery contains the outputs they choose to show.
Prepared for the room
Reusable examples make the flow easy to demonstrate. End-to-end browser checks and a staggered test with ten simulated groups helped check the workshop setup.
A finished output
Participants can review their shots together, select music and export a composed film. The example above is a saved output from that workflow.
06 / My contribution
Built it.
Helped people use it.
I designed and implemented the studio, integrated image, video and music generation, prepared examples, and tested the complete flow. During the workshop, I helped participants develop prompts and turn their briefs into creative outputs.
The work brought together the parts of AI engineering I enjoy most: building a system, paying attention to how people use it, and refining the details through real feedback.
Interested in the engineering, or have a project in mind? Let’s talk ↗