I really enjoyed this minimalist ode to UI history when it debuted at a recent iPhone event, and it’s fun to see it again:
Category Archives: Illustration
“Project Glowstick” brings light sources to Illustrator
Anything that finally lets regular people tap into the vast (and vastly untapped) power of Illustrator’s venerable gradient mesh is a win, and this tech promises to let vector shapes function as light emitters that help cast shadows:
Requisite (?) Old Man Nack moment: though I have no idea if/how the underlying tech relates, I’m reminded of the Realtime Gradient-Domain Painting work that onetime Adobe researcher Jim McCann published back in 2008.
Art history insanity o’ the day
Happy Sunday. 😌
Animation: “The Crazy Train In Impeachment Fantasyland”
“Here, we choo-choo-choose to believe in the Constitution. Isn’t that bananas?”
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Illustration: “The Finish Line Is Never The End”
Thrilling stuff for Honda’s celebration of the Japanese Grand Prix:
Campaign writes,
The ad covers Honda’s success on the racetrack through the years, from the RA272’s victory at 1965’s Mexican Grand Prix to Max Verstappen’s race-winning pass at this year’s Austrian Grand Prix. A giant animated bull also features as a nod to the brand’s partnership with Scuderia Toro Rosso and Aston Martin Red Bull Racing.
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Victorian “Inception” in 60 seconds
Eight or so years ago, my little son Finn was fascinated by this animation. (As we laid in the dark at bedtime, he noted out of the blue, “The dream is collapsing.”) Now that he’s 11, we can enjoy the original film together & revisit the steampunk version together.
A peek behind the scenes:
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Adobe & Apple partner for hands-on sneaks of Adobe Fresco
All through October. Looks like fun—and great to see how far the world has come from the “Thoughts On Flash”/“Sympathy for the Devil” days.
We've partnered up with @Apple for The Big Draw!
Join free art sessions October 1–31 at Apple Stores to get hands-on experience with #AdobeFresco on iPad and instruction from top talent: https://t.co/ArOZTwF6wD #TodayatApple #TheBigDraw pic.twitter.com/eXlyqX7ghB
— Adobe Drawing (@AdobeDrawing) September 17, 2019
Using AR to restore lost Latino artwork
Neat idea from El Pollo Loco + Snapchat:
El Pollo Loco… is looking to bring back lost Latino-themed murals in downtown Los Angeles, if only in virtual form. Beginning Sunday, open the Snapchat smartphone app, tap on the background to activate the World Lenses feature, and point the phone at the now blank wall. With that, the old murals come back to life on the screen.
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Charming little illustrated loops (“GIFs” not GIFs)
It’s sort of hilarious to me that a 30-year-old silent file format has given its contentiously pronounced name to a genre of little looping animations—which in this case aren’t even silent! But who cares, just enjoy these fun little sequences:
Preview: Adobe Fresco
My old pals Will & Bryan and their teams have been hard at work on the brushing-savvy iPad app Fresco (see previous thoughts). Gizmodo offers a quick look at its current state, and Bryan has shared some perspective on its development.
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