Evolving Visually-Diverse Graphic Design Posters

Finding unconventional visual solutions that stand out and draw attention is frequently one of the goals of Graphic Design (gd). However, to save time, graphic designers often adhere to design trends and templates, resulting in creations that frequently lack distinctive qualities. To speed up the creative process, among other techniques, researchers have been using evolutionary algorithms to generate and present novel gd solutions to end-users, so they can save time by working over the generated ideas. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art approaches often converge to a final group of results that look too similar to each other. In this paper, we test the application of niching techniques to generate a set of visually varied gd solutions and present it to end-users. gd posters were evolved as a proof of concept. The results suggest that implementing the tested niching technique in evolutionary systems can be a viable approach to present users with a wider range of ideas, at least for poster design.