AI on local shopfronts?
There’s a new business seemingly about to open in the centre of Kilkenny. They’ve obviously gone to a lot of effort to renovate the existing shopfront and have installed relatively attractive raised signage with their business name on it, but unfortunately seem to have cheapened it all by sticking a big, AI-looking logo over the main window and on a storefront sign.
Some of the newest shopfronts in the city didn’t even try to look presentable or keep in character with the city, but this one obviously tried and then (presumably unknowingly) shat the bed. And that’s bothersome.
Where’s the consultation? Can the council advise business owners on best practice? And where’s the enforcement when it comes to the blatant flouters?
It’s getting to the stage where you can’t even advise businesses to keep their shopfronts in character with the city, because the character of the city has been slowly eroded over recent years through a lack of enforcement, and crap is becoming the norm.
I can understand how difficult it must be to open and run a business, but I don’t think making a slightly better aesthetic choice with signage is going to put any business under. I really don’t want to start seeing business owners who mean well cheapen their brand either because they don’t know how tacky their AI designs look. And I really want to seeing action from the local authority. How far are we going to let it go?