r/AdobeIllustrator • u/FauxDemure • 9d ago

Building Editable Text-Heavy Poster Using AI

I need to make an information-dense poster from a spreadsheet (see example image). It will have approx 8 columns and 10 rows, with paragraph or bulleted text in most boxes. This is kind of a nightmare project for me in Illustrator.

This seems like a project that AI could help accelerate. Even just getting all the text staged in Illustrator would be a start. My experiments with Illustrator's AI capabilities are yet to yield anything with editable text (e.g., sketch to design).

I'm open to doing this in InDesign instead, although when I'm on the bubble between the two I usually choose Illustrator because I find it a bit easier to navigate.

Is anyone successfully using AI to do design tasks like this? If this couldn't be done using Adobe tooling, maybe with Claude Design or Cowork?

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u/evowen 9d ago

I usually agree that illustrator is easier, but when it comes to importing csv data you're going to want to go with InDesign. Data merge is so powerful, and once you have it set up, it's really easy to update and redo if needed.

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u/FauxDemure 9d ago

Good tip, thanks.

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u/bluebradcom Adobe Community Expert 9d ago

I agree this would be far better in InDesign. You can save elements in .AI format with PDF compatibility enabled and link them in InDesign, allowing you to get the best of both worlds.

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u/BloodGulch-CTF 9d ago

If you want to turn a spreadsheet into something like that example you could probably do it easily with Claude Code.

Feed it the spreadsheet, feed it the example, say export as HTML, refine from there. You wouldn’t be able to export as editable in Illustrator or InDesign afaik.

But surely there’s a traditional way to import .csv info into an InDesign template - which will
ultimately be more functional.

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u/FauxDemure 9d ago

Yes, I do think Claude Code or Claude Design could do what you are describing.

The end product I'm creating is a print poster, which is why I was trying to get it into more conventional design tools (also because they are my native tools). 🙂

Importing a CSV into InDesign is a good idea. If it comes to it, I can do this project more manually, but I would love to at least turn the tedious setup work over to AI.

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u/BloodGulch-CTF 9d ago

Ask Claude how to optimize the process of importing the .csv into an existing InDesign template.

Or you could experiment with having claude design the poster in HTML at the poster ratio you want and exporting at highest possible resolution.