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Browse More Than 1,000 Original Sketches Of Mid-Century Fashion | Co.Design
Image Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections: Art and Picture Collection
In 1957, three New York designers Walter Teitelbaum, Leo Boren, and Howard Steel founded a company called Creators Studio that produced fashion design concepts. With the tagline “Not yesterday’s but tomorrow’s fashions today,” they’d draw up original garments based upon notable fashion trends, and design manufacturers would receive these sketches on a subscription basis.
Walter Teitelbaum gifted the New York Public Library with 1,067 of these drawings of women’s and children’s ready-to-wear fashions from 1957 to 1969, and the collection has been digitized for you to explore online.
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Instagram dives into curated content with a dedicated music account | Engadget
Instagram uses its official account to promote notable snapshots on the social network, and has been doing so for quite some time. But now, the filter-driven app will serve up a daily look at music “around the globe.” Through the @music stream, the folks behind the software will highlight music photographers, designers working on album art, instrument makers and fans in addition to current stars and emerging talent. It’ll even offer 15-second lessons from time to time. Musicians are a big part of Instagram’s user base, where artists can share updates and connect with fans, so it makes sense that the subject would get its own channel.
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World’s First Self-Powered Video Camera Unveiled| Discovery News #digitalimaging #solar #video
If you think cameras are ubiquitous now, wait until this catches on. Researchers at Columbia University announced today that they have build the world’s first self-powered video camera. By leveraging the technology that powers both digital imaging and solar panels, they’ve made a prototype model that draws energy from the ambient light in a well-lit room. READ MORE: World’s First Self-Powered Video Camera Unveiled | Discovery News.
Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 210,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included! | Open Culture #art #digital @rijksmuseum
We all found it impressive when Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum put up 125,000 Dutch works of art online. “Users can explore the entire collection, which is handily sorted by artist, subject, style and even by events in Dutch history,” explained Kate Rix in our first post announcing it.” “Not only can users create their own online galleries from selected works in the museum’s collection, they can download Rijksmuseum artwork for free to decorate new products.”
But we posted that almost two and a half years ago, and you can hardly call the Rijksmuseum an institution that sits idly by while time passes, or indeed does anything at all by half measures…And so they’ve kept hard at work adding to their digital archive, which, as of this writing, offers nearly 210,000 works of art.
44 Social Media Tools Recommended by the Pros | Social Media Examiner #socialmedia
Are you looking for ways to enhance your social media marketing? Do you want new tools to simplify your marketing tasks? We asked a group of social media pros for the hottest social media tools they use today. Check out these social media tools to see if they’re a good fit for you! READ MORE: 44 Social Media Tools Recommended by the Pros | Social Media Examiner
Google Puts Online 10,000 Works of Street Art from Across the Globe | Open Culture
Circling Birdies by Cheko, Granada Spain
Since last we wrote, Google Street Art has doubled its online archive by adding some 5,000 images, bringing the tally to 10,000, with coordinates pinpointing exact locations on all five continents (though as of this writing, things are a bit thin on the ground in Africa). Given the temporal realities of outdoor, guerrilla art, pilgrims may arrive to find a blank canvas where graffiti once flourished.
A major aim of the project is virtual preservation. As with performance art, documentation is key. Not all of the work can be attributed, but click on an image to see what is known. Guided tours to neighborhoods rich with street art allow armchair travelers to experience the work, and interviews with the artists dispel any number of stereotypes. READ MORE: Google Puts Online 10,000 Works of Street Art from Across the Globe | Open Culture.
JPEG, GIF, & PNG: Know Your File Types | Who Is Hosting This?
Trying to save space on image files? It can be tough to know exactly which filetype is the best to use. If you save your image as the wrong type, you could end up blurring a beautiful photo, losing all the detail of your logo, or turning a transparent background black.
If you’d like to know exactly which is the perfect image filetype to use for which images, and save a lot of space and bandwidth in the process while maintaining a quality image, check out the handy reference below for the facts.
via JPEG, GIF, & PNG: Know Your File Types | Who Is Hosting This?
A Creatives Quick Guide to Social Media Image Sizes | Design Instruct
This Design Instruct post lists optimum image sizing for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Google+, Behance and Dribble. The post will be updated as sizing for these platforms evolve…now I just wish this information was visualized in a infographic for us visual learners!
Social media is a way of life for a lot of people. For creatives, it’s a great way to get your work out there and potentially gain a following…Depending on what kind of work you do and how well people respond to it, social media can be a very effective self-marketing tool for many creatives. Therefore, it’s important that your work looks the best that it can look online. Since social media platforms over the last decade have been continually evolving and optimizing, it has not always been clear how best to display your work on these platforms. Luckily, we’ve managed to do a bit of research on how different social media platforms display images so that others can see your work in the best possible way.
READ MORE: A Creatives Quick Guide to Social Media Image Sizes | Design Instruct
Google Just Released Hundreds of Cool Icons That You Can Use For Free | Gizmodo
As part of its Material Design project, Google has published a set of lovely icons, designed for use in mobile apps or whatever else you fancy using them for. And theyre free!
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