Chen Haohao
01

WORKING MATERIAL

A vocabulary
for images.

艺术插画模型标签库

ART & ILLUSTRATION
LABEL LIBRARY
样本

Style is a language.
A label is a decision.

No.STYLE / 风格LABEL / 标签
01flat扁平
02pop illustration波普插画
03vaporwave蒸汽波
04citypop城市流行
05cyberpunk赛博朋克
06Patchwork Collage布艺拼贴画
07Op Art视错觉艺术
088-bit pixel art8比特像素插画
STYLE / CONTEXT / REFERENCEEXCERPT 01
Selected entries from my working library, re-set for reading. The source sheet also organizes use contexts and artist references.

AESTHETIC KNOWLEDGE AS MATERIAL

From looking
to structuring.

My work with generative image systems includes organizing visual references, preparing training data, and developing aesthetic vocabularies and prompts.

The label library brings styles, visual contexts and references into a shared working structure. Here, art-historical knowledge becomes part of the material used to shape an image system.

READ ALONGSIDE / THEORYArt as an information system ↗

The ontology research follows the shift from objects to concepts, processes and information.

More from the working sheet

USE CONTEXTS / 使用场景

  • vector illustration / 矢量插画
  • fashion illustration / 时尚插画
  • poster / 海报
  • travel map / 旅行地图
  • book illustration / 书籍插图
  • postcard / 明信片
02

APPLIED PRACTICE

Inside the
image-making system.

Research.
Translate.
Make.

Art-historical research informs aesthetic choices; those choices enter the system through references, training data and prompts.

The other side: writing on AI & artistic labour ↗

MEITU · MT LAB OVERSEAS / 2025—PRESENT

Aesthetics in generative products

Dataset preparation and training-data design for AirBrush and BeautyPlus; aesthetic design and prompts for AI filters, portraits and fashion, with collaboration on AI agents for creative expression.

XIAOHONGSHU / 2023—2025

Art history as a design resource

Art-historical research informing the aesthetic design of generative AI products, with contributions to prompt-engineering guidelines.

8BIT / 2022—2023

Building the conditions for an image

AI training plans shaped by product and algorithm requirements, and leadership of a data team preparing datasets for aesthetic design.

03

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Images, texts
& circulation.

DIGITAL & TEXT SERIES / 2023 AUCTION

VaporWave
& Art History
of Future

Works from my digital series VaporWave and text series Art History of Future were auctioned at the TangDAO charity auctions.

Related writing: Art History of Future: Writing for Future People, ZiWU Journal, vol. 33, March 2022.

DIGITAL ART / 2022

Weibo Digital
Art Museum

Artist participation in the museum’s opening on Voxels, including exhibition planning and a charity auction.

DIGITAL ART / 2021

TopBanner

Collaboration with Alibaba Ant Blockchain Digital Art to auction earlier works.