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Motherboards Look Like Agricultural Fields In Brilliant Ads For Volkswagen’s Tech-Savvy Trucks

Posted By fershid 1954 days ago on Advertising

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Volkswagen Argentina wanted to promote its Amarok V6 4×4 pickup truck to young, tech-savvy agricultural workers who work in crop fields and rely on technology to get the job done. The Amarok has 4×4 capabilities but also comes loaded with technology that these “rural millennials” will appreciate.

Agency Geometry Argentina came up with a brilliant print and outdoor campaign that features, what looks like, aerial photographs of an agricultural field. When we look closer, we realize that the fields are actually motherboards. The tagline reads, “Amarok V6 4×4. In the technology field.” Check out the campaign here.

Legendary Painters ‘Deliver’ Their Paintings In Brilliant Ads For Fine Arts Transport Company

Posted By fershid 1952 days ago on Advertising

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Welti-Furrer is a leading Swiss company for fine art transports. Their experts transport valuable art with the utmost care. To communicate their services to museums, galleries, curators, and art collectors, agency Ruf Lanz (Zurich) came up with a brilliantly art-directed campaign featuring four legendary painters: Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, and Frida Kahlo.

The ads show the artists dressed as Welti-Furrer delivery personnel carrying/transporting their paintings themselves, in wooden freight boxes. The tagline reads, “We transport fine art as carefully as if we had created it ourselves.”

The campaign ran in art magazines, selected billboards, and at Art Basel – the world’s largest art fair. Check it out here.

This Brilliant Free Tool Can Remove The Background From Your Photo In Five Seconds

Posted By fershid 1947 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - AI photo filter maker Kaleido has come up with a powerful online tool called Remove.bg that erases the background from any image in five seconds or less, and gives you a transparent PNG of the person/people in the image. It works 100% automatically, you don’t have to mark the person or select the background and foreground layers manually. Just upload your image or enter its URL. Within five seconds you can download a transparent PNG cutout of the same.

The tool uses AI technology to detect foreground layers and separate them from the background. There are several additional algorithms to prevent color contamination and improve fine details.

This Is Why You Should Never Hire Cheap Designers To Edit Your Photos

Posted By fershid 1945 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Irene Rudnyk is a professional photographer from Calgary, Canada, who shares photography and Photoshop tutorials on her YouTube channel. Recently, she decided to conduct a little experiment using the popular online marketplace Fiverr that lets you buy and sell services for $5.

The objective was to check the value and credibility of cheap freelance retouchers, since most of them have 5-star ratings and hundreds of positive reviews on the site. Irene hired three retouchers at different price points – $0.25, $5, and $10 – and gave them an unedited photo to retouch. Here are the results.

The Top 50 Companies Creatives Would Love To Work For

Posted By fershid 1926 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Creative talent network Working Not Working has released its annual survey of the top 50 companies creatives want to work for. This is the fifth edition of the list, which started in 2014.

This year’s list has been compiled from the answers of 8934 creatives who are part of the Working Not Working community. 2832 companies were named, and the top 50 made it to the list.

Japanese Artist Turns Product Packaging Into Amazing Artworks

Posted By fershid 1924 days ago on Art

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Japanese artist Haruki transforms packaging of everyday items like Pringles chips, Oreo cookies, Nestle milk, etc. into amazing paper sculptures and artworks. He uses a technique known as kirigami, a variation of origami, which involves cutting and folding paper to create intricate designs. Kirigami is usually associated with traditional Japanese art, but Haruki applies the technique on product packaging and creates his own style of art.

Shit Clients Say – 13 Most Unforgettable Quotes

Posted By fershid 1912 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - How many times have you had a client send a list of “final” changes AFTER they’ve approved the design? What about when they ask you to find an image from Google, or copy someone else’s logo, or when they tell you to deliver designs by Monday after briefing on Friday?

We all come across unreasonable client demands on a daily basis, but the folks at BeeWits have a dedicated ‘Shit Clients Say’ board – a hall/wall of fame filled with the funniest client feedback they’ve received over the years (image shared at the bottom). They’ve created a series of posters out of the most hilarious ones, check them out below.

This Brilliant Free Tool Resizes Any Image To Over 50 Web And Social Media Sizes

Posted By fershid 1909 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - The team at video editing app Promo has come up with a useful online tool that resizes any image to over 50 web and social media sizes with the click of a button. Simply upload your image or enter its url, and the app gives you a preview of what your image will look like across different formats like profile photos, cover photos, stories, newsfeed images, ads, email headers, etc. You can adjust and reposition any of the resized images, and download them all.

The platforms currently supported are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Email, Blog, and Google Display Network.

Photoshop Project Imagines What Late Celebrities Might Have Looked Like In Old Age

Posted By fershid 1909 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Retirement welfare website Great Senior Living has come up with an intriguing Photoshop project titled “Gone But Not Forgotten” that imagines what late celebrities might have looked like in their golden years. The list includes Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, Malcolm X, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Selena.

GSL asked graphic designers to apply digital ageing effects and depict their interpretations of what these popular figures would have looked like, had they lived longer. The images were then combined into a GIF with morphing transitions. Check them out here.

What Logo Styles Do Consumers Trust Most?

Posted By fershid 1905 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - SurveyMonkey and infographic maker Venngage surveyed over 1000 adults living in the U.S. on what logo styles they trusted the most. The respondents were shown a series of logos for imaginary companies in six different industries: Jewellery retail, education, financial services, law firm, news/media, and technology.

Six variations of each logo were presented: Icon dominant, text dominant, filled, outline, horizontal, and icon only. Respondents were then asked to pick the logo style they trusted the most. Here are the results.

“Miss The Start, Miss The Story” – Clever Ads By Sky TV Promote Its Restart Movie Feature

Posted By fershid 1899 days ago on Advertising

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Most people in Germany watch linear TV instead of on-demand TV, because they don’t like to spend too much time choosing what movie to watch. They tend to just turn on the television and watch what’s running.

Sky offers movies on-demand, and also on linear channels. The restart function from Sky Q let’s you watch movies on linear TV from the start, by accessing the same movie in Sky’s on-demand library. This gives the viewer the benefits of linear TV and on-demand TV.

How To Turn White Into Any Color In Photoshop

Posted By fershid 1898 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - You can change the color of any object in Photoshop by creating a hue/saturation adjustment layer, and using the sliders and the eyedropper tool (here’s a one-minute tutorial on the same). However, when the object is white, a hue/saturation adjustment layer doesn’t convert it realistically no matter how high you turn up the saturation.

In this handy tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you how to use blend-if, adjustment layers, and blend modes to change white into any other color realistically, even black.

Unmesh uses solid color fill layers and multiply blend mode to project the desired color on the white object. He then uses curves and blend-if to add dimension and depth to make the object look natural and realistic. Watch here.

300 Beautiful Color Gradients For All Your Design Needs

Posted By fershid 1897 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Vibrant colors and gradients are one of the major trends in graphic, web, and UI design nowadays. To make life easier for designers everywhere, Paris-based graphic designer Leo Simon has compiled a set of 300 beautiful gradients into a Photoshop gradient file (GRD), available for free.

How Good Is Your Eye For UI Design Details? Take This Quiz And Find Out

Posted By fershid 1890 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Seattle-based UX designer Alex Kotliarskyi has come up with an interesting visual quiz that tests your UI knowledge and attention to details.

Titled Can’t Unsee, the web-based game presents two choices of iOS interface designs, and asks you to pick which one is correct. You earn coins for every correct answer.

The game is divided into three rounds (easy, medium, hard) of 18 questions each. The challenges get harder as you progress.

Beautiful Color Palettes Of Countries From Around The World

Posted By fershid 1870 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Luxury travel specialists Sovereign have come up with a series of color palettes of 18 popular destinations from across the globe. The objective was to highlight the range of unique colorscapes that can be seen around the world.

Each palette consists of 20 colors that were derived from iconic locations in that country. The palettes are a reflection of their culture, heritage, geography, and architecture. Some of these might also give you color ideas for your next design project. Check them out here.

Veteran Artist Brilliantly Explains The Use Of Color In Movie Poster Designs

Posted By fershid 1856 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - James Verdesoto is an artist and creative director who has designed iconic posters for movies such as Pulp Fiction, Ocean’s Eleven, Training Day, Girl, Interrupted, and more.

In this video for Vanity Fair, Verdesoto explains the role of color psychology and trends in movie poster design. He discusses the use of certain colors and palettes in specific genres, with relevant examples and references. Watch here.

41 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project

Posted By fershid 1856 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Colours.cafe is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. They also hold design challenges in which users have to use a specific palette to create illustrations and calligraphy. The best works are then featured on their page.

We’ve shortlisted some of the best color palettes on the Colours.cafe page in terms of aesthetic appeal, usability, and current design trends. Check them out here.

NVIDIA Develops Incredible AI That Can Turn Rough Sketches Into Landscape Images

Posted By fershid 1853 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - Researchers at NVIDIA have developed a deep learning model that can turn rough doodles into photorealistic landscapes using generative adversarial networks, or GANs. The interactive app has been named GauGAN, after the post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin.

The deep learning model has been trained on a million images. When you draw the shapes of the objects you want, the neural network is able to fill in the details, texture, color, reflections, and shadows, based on what it has learned from those real images.

GauGAN could be a powerful tool for architects, urban planners, landscape designers, game developers, and more. Using this ‘smart paintbrush’, professionals will be able to develop prototypes, and make rapid changes to a synthetic scene with ease. Check it out here.

9 Things You Should Never Say To A Designer

Posted By fershid 1847 days ago on Design

https://digitalsynopsis.com - If you’ve been in the creative business for a few years, you’ve definitely had your share of funny/dumb comments made by clients who don’t have a damn clue, or clients who wanted to freeload, or clients who wanted to micromanage the entire design process.

In the interest of designers everywhere, Weekly Design Grind has compiled a list of nine things clients (and everyone else) should never say to designers. Check them out here.

Elderly People Look At Their Younger Reflections In This Beautiful Photo Series By Tom Hussey

Posted By fershid 1843 days ago on Photography

https://digitalsynopsis.com - ‘Reflections of The Past’ is an award-winning photo series by commercial advertising photographer Tom Hussey. The photographs show an elderly person looking pensively at the reflection of his/her younger self in the mirror.

Hussey was inspired by a World War II veteran who said “I can’t believe I’m going to be 80. I feel like I just came back from the war. I look in the mirror and I see this old guy.”

It’s beautiful, touching and something everyone will go through at some point in their lives. Check out the series here.