Photograph a bad flyer, redesign it properly
Your neighbourhood is full of design that fails — cluttered tuition flyers, unreadable notices. Photograph one in the wild, diagnose exactly why it fails, draft rescue layouts with AI, and rebuild the best one properly so the same information actually lands.
Posted by The AI Internships
The work brief
- 01Find and photograph a genuinely bad flyer/notice/poster around you (with nothing private on it).
- 02Diagnose it: hierarchy, font count, alignment, contrast, what a passer-by absorbs in 3 seconds.
- 03Describe the flyer’s content to an AI and ask for 3 hierarchy-first layout directions — pick the strongest, then rebuild it properly in Canva, keeping ALL the original information.
- 04Explain each fix in terms of a design principle — hierarchy, alignment, proximity, contrast.
What you’ll produce
Submission standard
Submit your photo of the original, the diagnosis, your redesign, and the principle-by-principle explanation, plus your AI workflow. Also submit the public Canva view-link to your redesign and a screenshot of your own editor showing your account name and today's date.
Your photo of the real flyer/notice in the wild
Image uploadRequiredWhy it fails: specific problems, in design terms
Written responseRequiredYour redesigned version (same information, better design)
This must be the exported view of the Canva file at your share-link, and must carry ALL the text visible in your before-photo — missing information or a design that does not match the linked file fails.
Image uploadRequiredFix-by-fix explanation naming the principle behind each change
Written responseRequired
You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.
What you must submit as proof
This brief requires evidence an AI can’t fabricate.
Public Canva view-link to your redesign file
Canva 'Share > Anyone with the link can view'. Must open to YOUR editable redesign — a dead or private link fails.
Public linkRequiredScreenshot of your OWN Canva editor mid-redesign — account name and today's date visible
Show the live editing canvas with your username and system date, not just the exported artwork.
Image uploadRequired
Submissions without this evidence cannot be submitted.
Protect other people in your proof. Blur faces, names, phone numbers and email addresses before you upload, and refer to anyone you worked with by role or number ("Listener 1", "the stall owner"). Your proof is only ever used to check your work — it is never published, never appears on your certificate, and is never shown in your public portfolio.
How your work is evaluated
The passing benchmark is 70/100.
Real find
14%The original is a real, photographed local artifact with real problems.
Redesign quality
29%The redesign is clearly better and keeps all the information.
Principle fluency
29%Fixes are correctly tied to named design principles.
First-party provenance
29%Auto-fail if the redesign is an AI export with no live editable file, if the editor screenshot lacks account/date, or if the redesign's text does not reconcile with the photographed original.
How we grade your AI usage
Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.