You might have noticed flyers for small businesses starting to look the same in recent months, not because everyone's jumping on one of the big graphic design trends of 2026, but because of a technology. AI-generated flyers are everywhere, and they're replacing the great tradition of folk design built in Photoshop or Microsoft Paint.
Suddenly everything from your local church's car boot sale to the food truck on the pavement outside it is presenting itself with AI-generated visuals. And despite the theoretically infinite creative possibilities that AI image generators afford, most of them look mediocre, if not outright traumatic when it comes to AI menus and food imagery.
