A good, quick tour of some fundamentals—plus the often-forgotten (by me) On-Image Adjustment Tool:
[YouTube]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
High-res classic posters from the IBM design archive
Super cool. The Fox Is Black writes,
Sue Murphy, an art director at Ogilvy & Mather, started Good Design is Good Business, a single-serving site which offers high-res versions of new and classic IBM posters. You’ll find works of design by legends like Paul Rand as well as contemporary classics like HORT. Perfect for the starving student or the design lover who needs some new art for their cube.
I have a particular soft spot for this genre, especially Paul Rand’s work. After I proposed to my wife, I made her a little illustration combining Rand’s Westinghouse W logo plus two bees from his Eye-Bee-M logo, then emailed it with the heading of simply “You.” Didn’t take her long to parse the meaning: W2B, as in “Wife To Be.”
Demo: Transferring photographic style among faces
My old Adobe colleague Sylvain Paris & a team at MIT have long worked on enabling style transfer among images (see demos from 2010 & last year), and now they’re demonstrating new progress in a new SIGGRAPH paper:
Using off-the-shelf face recognition software, they first identify a portrait, in the desired style, that has characteristics similar to those of the photo to be modified. “We then find a dense correspondence — like eyes to eyes, beard to beard, skin to skin — and do this local transfer,” Shih explains.
Check out this quick demo, including the ability to apply style to video (provided it’s a headshot):
Neat stuff. [YouTube]