MEC Artworks AI

AI-powered mosaic design generation platform that allows designers and clients to create, visualise, and explore custom tile artwork concepts in real time. Replaces manual iteration cycles with an intelligent generation engine and interactive canvas — making the full creative workflow faster from first concept to client approval.

Mosaic and tile design traditionally required extensive manual iteration — sketching, sampling, and physically arranging materials before a concept could be properly evaluated or presented to a client. Designers needed a tool that could collapse this cycle, enabling concepts to be generated, visualised, and assessed in seconds rather than days.

Developed an AI generation engine that takes user-defined parameters — palette, pattern style, tile density — and produces rendered mosaic visualisations instantly using canvas-based rendering. Designed a dual-audience interface accessible to design professionals who need speed and control, and to clients who need to understand and approve concepts without design literacy.

MEC Artworks AI was built to close a specific gap in the mosaic design process: the distance between a concept and its first visual representation. In traditional practice, that gap is filled with hours of manual work — sketching, sampling, arranging physical tiles. The platform closes it to seconds.

We developed an AI generation engine that accepts user inputs — colour palette preferences, pattern style, tile density and scale — and renders mosaic visualisations in real time using a canvas-based output system. The results are immediately usable as client-facing concepts, not rough approximations requiring further manual refinement.

The interface was designed for two distinct users simultaneously. Design professionals needed speed, control, and the ability to iterate rapidly across variations. Clients needed to understand, react to, and approve concepts without requiring design literacy or technical explanation. Simplicity was the design brief — the tool had to accelerate creativity without introducing a new learning curve.

The result transforms the front end of the mosaic design process. Concepts that previously required a full day to produce and present can now be generated, iterated, and taken to client approval within a single working session. The platform is live and in active use by the MEC Artworks team.

• AI design generation engine
• Real-time canvas visualisation
• UI/UX design (dual audience)
• Full-stack frontend engineering