Lucy Johnson is a graphic designer in Create, having worked at Linney for more than six years.

Now a member of the McDonald’s team, her role is designing for below-the-line visual communications and she regularly runs ‘Top Draw’, a still-life drawing club on site. In her spare time Lucy loves drawing on location and developing her sketching and illustration skills, and cannot sit for five minutes without making something.

Control. Create. Repeat.

Control. Create. Repeat. ▶︎

AI promises to protect us from the ‘indignity’ of labour and busywork. But when creative professionals work with generative AI, are they writing their creative epitaph or drawing on new tools? Illustrator Lucy Johnson and writer Sophie Baker explore how it feels when the robots are after your pay cheque.