#Art & Design APIs

[mothloid]

Moments before disaster.

The brothers, Osiris and Seth! They had a very competitive childhood but a tightknit friendship.

Once Osiris took over as pharoh, the relationship grew bitter as Seth caused problems for the kingdom in retaliation.

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Figured I'd give some design facts about why Osiris is a bull! I was given information by @/milky-rozen about an aspect of Osiris being a bull and i found out about Apis, a bull diety god who is associated with osiris and bam! Also this is pre-dead Osiris lol

[newsdataapi]

If you're looking for an alternative to Google News API, the NewsData.io API is the way to go. It's got a ton of news source coverage, cool features, and a super easy-to-use interface. Plus, it's got flexible pricing plans, so you can get the most out of it. Whether you're building a news aggregation tool, a financial platform, or a social media monitoring tool - NewsData.io has got you covered.

[empty-movement]

Welcome to Something Eternal: A Website Forum in 2023 wtf lmao

It's 2023, and a single belligerent rich guy destroyed one of the primary focal points of uh...global communication. Tumblr is, shockingly, kinda thriving despite the abuse it gets from its owners, but that I will call the iconic refusal of Tumblr users to let Tumblr get in the way of their using Tumblr. Reddit killed its API, removing the functionality of mobile apps that made it remotely readable (rip rif.) Discord, our current primary hangout, has made countless strange choices lately that indicate it has reached the summit of its usability and functionality, and can only decline from here as changes get made to prepare for shareholders. (NOTE: WROTE THIS POST BEFORE THEIR MOBILE "REDESIGN" LMAO)

The enshittification is intense, and it's coming from every direction. Social media platforms that felt like permanent institutions are instead slowly going to let fall fallow incredible amounts of history, works of art, thought, and fandoms. It kinda sucks!

A couple years ago, I posted about a new plan with a new domain, to focus on the archiving of media content, as I saw that to be the fatal weakness of the current ways the internet and fandoms work. Much has happened since to convince me to alter the direction of those efforts, though not abandon them entirely.

Long story short? We are launching a fucking website forum. In 2023.

If you remember In the Rose Garden, much about Something Eternal will be familiar. But this has been a year in the making, and in many ways it's far more ambitious than IRG was. We have put money on this. The forum is running on the same software major IT and technology businesses use, because I don't want the software to age out of usability within five years. It has an attached gallery system for me to post content to, including the Chiho Saito art collection. It has a profile post system that everyone already on the forum has decided is kinda like mini Twitter? But it is, fundamentally, a website forum, owned and run and moderated by us. We are not web devs. But we have run a website on pure spite and headbutting code for over twenty years, and we have over a decade of experience maintaining social spaces online, both on the OG forum, and on our Discord. Better skilled people with far more time than we have can and will build incredible alternatives to what is collapsing around us. But they're not in the room right now. We are. And you know what? Maybe it's time to return to a clunkier, slower moving, more conversation focused platform.

You're not joining a social media platform with the full polish of dozens of devs and automated moderation. Things might break, and I might need time to fix them. The emojis and such are still a work in progress. Because e-mails no longer route in reasonable normal ways, the sign-up process instead happens within the software, and has to be approved by mods. Design and structure elements may change. Etc. The point being, that the forum isn't finished, but it is at a place where I feel like I can present it to people, and it's people I need to help direct what functions and things will be in this space. You all will shape its norms, its traditions, its options...choices I could try to make now, but really...they're for us to create as a group! But the important stuff? That's there. Now let's drive this baby off the damn lot already!

Come! Join us!!

PS. As always, TERFs and Nazis need not apply.

[whencyclopedia]

A Brief History of Egyptian Art

Art is an essential aspect of any civilization. Once the basic human needs have been taken care of such as food, shelter, some form of community law, and a religious belief, cultures begin producing artwork, and often all of these developments occur more or less simultaneously. This process began in the Predynastic Period in Egypt (c. 6000 - c. 3150 BCE) through images of animals, human beings, and supernatural figures inscribed on rock walls. These early images were crude in comparison to later developments but still express an important value of Egyptian cultural consciousness: balance.

Egyptian society was based on the concept of harmony known as ma'at which had come into being at the dawn of creation and sustained the universe. All Egyptian art is based on perfect balance because it reflects the ideal world of the gods. The same way these gods provided all good gifts for humanity, so the artwork was imagined and created to provide a use. Egyptian art was always first and foremost functional. No matter how beautifully a statue may have been crafted, its purpose was to serve as a home for a spirit or a god. An amulet would have been designed to be attractive but aesthetic beauty was not the driving force in its creation, protection was. Tomb paintings, temple tableaus, home and palace gardens all were created so that their form suited an important function and, in many cases, this function was a reminder of the eternal nature of life and the value of personal and communal stability.

Early Dynastic Period Art

The value of balance, expressed as symmetry, infused Egyptian art from the earliest times. The rock art from the Predynastic Period establishes this value which is fully developed and realized in the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (c. 3150 - c. 2613 BCE). Art from this period reaches its height in the work known as The Narmer Palette (c. 3200-3000 BCE) which was created to celebrate the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt under King Narmer (c. 3150 BCE). Through a series of engravings on a siltstone slab, shaped as a chevron shield, the story is told of the great king's victory over his enemies and how the gods encouraged and approved his actions. Although some of the images of the palette are difficult to interpret, the story of unification and the celebration of the king is quite clear.

On the front, Narmer is associated with the divine strength of the bull (possibly the Apis Bull) and is seen wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt in a triumphal procession. Below him, two men wrestle with entwined beasts which are often interpreted as representing Upper and Lower Egypt (though this view is contested and there seems no justification for it). The reverse side shows the king's victory over his enemies while the gods look on approvingly. All these scenes are carved in low-raised relief with incredible skill.

This technique would be used quite effectively toward the end of the Early Dynastic Period by the architect Imhotep (c. 2667-2600 BCE) in designing the pyramid complex of King Djoser (c. 2670 BCE). Images of lotus flowers, papyrus plants, and the djed symbol are intricately worked into the architecture of the buildings in both high and low relief. By this time the sculptors had also mastered the art of working in stone to created three-dimensional life-sized statues. The statue of Djoser is among the greatest works of art from this period.

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[characterdesignreferences]

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[l-1-z-a]

This is really cool! I'm curious to know if there are any in-game features (in any iterations, but esp Sims 3) that you feel like not many people know about? Or any features that didn't get the traction you expected?

Also, are there any interesting in-game features that didn't make it into the final version(s) that people may not know about? If so, why didn't they make it in?

Super appreciate this AMA! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us here! - Matt Brown’s Answer from the r/Sims3 AMA (May 11, 2025)

Absolutely! I love talking about The Sims and gaming history and development in general.

And that's a really good question. I'm sure I'm missing something (I'll post back here after I poll some of the other designers). I think at this point, the game has been around long enough, and the community is so passionate about digging in and finding everything that I really don't think there's anything super secret hiding in there.

At this point, I can say that the best chance of there being something that no one's ever seen is probably in The Sims 3, just because we made it so easy to add random little features or little one-offs, Non-art content (e.g. books) were so incredibly cheap to make that it didn't really matter if no one ever saw it. You could still justify slipping it in. But looking through the wikis, I can't think of anything that people haven't found.

The meaning behind some of the random text and objects might not be known, or the origins of common terms like "rabbit holes", "moodlets", etc. But those aren't really easter eggs per se.

One huge planned Sim 3 "feature" that many of us felt very passionately about was full player scripting of new content in C# (a well-known flexible programming language). I was and still am a C# fanboy, and I felt that moving away from the rickety visual scripting language in Sims 1 and 2 (called Edith) to a "real programming language" that was still accessible to hobbyists would significantly open up what we could do with the game as well as allow us to give players the same capabilities and just generally unleash the crazy :).

The goal was to basically provide a "Sims SDK" with a robust and documented API that anyone could use to create pretty much every type of content in the game. Objects, interactions, careers, rabbit holes, new motives... anything.

In the end though, The Sims really was the first game/entertainment oriented product to actually try to use C# in that way (Unity, which uses C# extensively, didn't even exist yet). And while we managed to build the game on that foundation, and the flexibility of it definitely enabled the crazy breadth and depth of The Sims 3, enabling it for players ran into too many additional hurdles (legal, security and safety, performance, etc.) and had to be cut. Bruce Wilkie (also the guy that did genetics in Sims 2 amongst many other things) was driving everything C# related and made amazing progress, but we just couldn't address all of the complications.

Source: Matt Brown’s reply on the r/Sims3 AMA (May 11, 2025)

[maypop-the-dragon]

PSA: Free Software

Reading this may really save your time, privacy, and money! Reblog or share to spread awareness!

Folks often use software that’s expensive and sometimes even inferior because they don’t know there are alternatives. So to those unfamiliar: basically, free and open-source (FOSS) or "libre" software is free to use and anyone can access the original code to make their own version or work on fixing problems.

That does not mean anyone can randomly add a virus and give it to everyone—any respectable libre project has checks in place to make sure changes to the official version are good! Libre software is typically developed by communities who really care about the quality of the software as a goal in itself.

There are libre alternatives to many well-known programs that do everything an average user needs (find out more under the cut!) for free with no DRM, license keys, or subscriptions.

Using libre software when possible is an easy way to fight against and free yourself from corporate greed while actually being more convenient in many cases! If you need an app to do something, perhaps try searching online for things like:

foss [whatever it is]

libre [whatever it is]

open source [whatever it is]

Feel free to recommend more libre software in the tags, replies, comments, or whatever you freaks like to do!

Some Libre Software I Personally Enjoy…

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is an office suite, much like Microsoft Office. It includes equivalents for apps like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, which can view and edit files created for those apps.

I can't say I've used it much myself yet. I do not personally like using office software except when I have to for school.

OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is, as the name suggests, a video editing program. It has industry-standard features like splicing, layering, transitions, and greenscreen.

I've only made one video with it so far, but I'm already very happy with it. I had already paid for a video editor (Cyberlink PowerDirector Pro), but I needed to reinstall it and I didn't remember how. Out of desperation, I searched up "FOSS video editor" and I'm so glad I did. There's no launcher, there's no promotion of other apps and asset packs—it's just a video editor with a normal installer.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image editor, much like Photoshop. Originally created for Linux but also available for Windows and MacOS, it provides plenty of functionality for editing images. It is a bit unintuitive to learn at first, though.

I've used it to create and modify images for years, including logos, really bad traceover art, and Minecraft textures. It doesn't have certain advanced tech like AI paint-in, but it has served my purposes well and it might just work for yours!

(Be sure to go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Colors. I have no idea why that's not enabled by default.)

Audacity

Audacity is an audio editing program. It can record, load, splice, and layer audio files and apply effects to them.

Audacity is another program I've used for a long time. It is not designed to compose music, but it is great for podcasts, simple edits, and loading legacy MS Paint to hear cool noises.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file manager and archive tool. It supports many archive types including ZIP, RAR, TAR, and its own format, 7Z. It can view and modify the contents of archives, encrypt and decrypt archives, and all that good stuff.

Personally, I use 7-Zip to look inside JAR files for Minecraft reasons. I must admit that its UI is ugly.

Firefox

Firefox is an internet browser, much like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Safari. While browsers are free, many of them include tracking or other anti-consumer practices. For example, Google plans to release an update to Chromium (the base that most browsers are built from these days) that makes ad blockers less effective by removing the APIs they currently rely on.

Aside from fighting monopolies, benefits include: support for animated themes (the one in the picture is Purple Night Theme), good ad blockers forever, an (albeit hidden) compact UI option (available on about:config), and a cute fox icon.

uBlock Origin

As far as I know, uBlock Origin is one of the best ad blockers there is.

I was on a sketchy website with my brother, and he was using Opera GX's ad blocker. Much of the time when he clicked on anything, it would take us to a random sponsored page. I suggested that he try uBlock Origin, and with uBlock Origin, that didn't happen anymore.

Linux

Linux is a kernel, but the term is often used to refer to operating systems (much like Windows or MacOS) built on it. There are many different Linux-based operating systems (or "distros") to choose from, but apps made for Linux usually work on most popular distros. You can also use many normally Windows-only apps on Linux through compatibility layers like WINE.

I don't have all four of these, so the images are from Wikipedia. I tried to show a variety of Linux distros made for different kinds of users.

If you want to replace your operating system, I recommend being very careful because you can end up breaking things. Many computer manufacturers don't care about supporting Linux, meaning that things may not work (Nvidia graphic cards notoriously have issues on Linux, for example).

Personally, I tried installing Pop!_OS on a laptop, and the sound output mysteriously doesn't work. I may try switching to Arch Linux, since it is extremely customizable and I might be able to experiment until I find a configuration where the audio works.

Many Linux distros offer "Live USB" functionality, which works as both a demo and an installer. You should thoroughly test your distro on a Live USB session before you actually install it to be absolutely sure that everything works. Even if it seems fine, you should probably look into dual-booting with your existing operating system, just in case you need it for some reason.

Happy computering!

[exnori]

About Exnori

Hello, I am Exnori.com, a premier cryptocurrency exchange dedicated to revolutionizing the way you trade digital assets. I am here to offer a secure, efficient, and user-friendly platform that caters to both beginners and seasoned traders alike. Let me take you through the various aspects of my services and why I am the go-to choice for cryptocurrency trading.

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Robust Security Protocols

Security is my utmost priority. I employ state-of-the-art encryption techniques, robust multi-factor authentication, and continuous monitoring to protect your assets and personal information. My security infrastructure is designed to be resilient against cyber threats, ensuring that your investments are safe with me.

User-Centric Design

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Extensive Cryptocurrency Selection

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Conclusion

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By joining Exnori.com, you are becoming part of a dynamic and forward-thinking community. Let's trade smarter, safer, and more effectively together. Welcome to Exnori.com, where your trading journey begins!

[vanillaxoshi]

POTATOES WELCOME!!!

Welcome to xoshi's potato farm :D

What you'd currently find in this blog is:

Boboiboy #boboiboy

EMBRACE #embrace manga

One piece #one piece

#fem luffy (basically an au)

Some fandoms

COMMISSIONS OPEN!!!!!

BBB elements separated au

First information of the au (read reblogs)

The idea and explanation 1

The idea and explanation 2

The idea and explanation 3

Info summary+designs

BBBes Comics

Eyes (Gamma)

Crash landing (Nova/Blaze)

Shapeshifting

Designs and art

Elements design

Beliung(Kuputeri ver)

Broken past, fixed future(Gamma)

Wallace! (Gov agent OC)

Additional 3rd tier designs

Take a look at the future hero!!

Just world ideas/concepts

Windara ideas

#bbb elements separated au

By @nerizys

First meeting treat

The Feeling in your hand

Father's day

Forte and Neira

Yaya's cookies and how it affects spirits

BBB septuplet au

(Its a suggested name, and also to differ itself from other septuplet aus)

#bbb injuries matter au

#bbb septuplet au

A start (Cahaya and Fang)

Emoti bot episode sketch

Angst fest ideas of the brothers

Movie ||

TTM characterizations

Cahaya characterization

Petir and Tanah characterizations + Angin

Birthday 1

Birthday 2

You called for help....

Mini comics

Please wake up....

Interruptions mini comic

Shocked

Left-hand learning

Dare

Cookie Incident

Hypocrites

Movie 2 idea

The dark

Wattpad fanfic

BBB age bracket au

#bbb age bracket au

The siblings

Api and sai

Some sktches

Sibs colored version with heights

BBB brother ordeal au

#bbb brother ordeal au

First making

Daun and cahaya

Experiment profiles

Experiment 1403

Experiment 1407

Experiment 1410

Experiment 1414

Experiment 1417

Experiment 1421

Experiment 1425

Comic and art

Escape

Judge of death

BBB royalty au

#bbb royalty au

The idea

Catalyst boboiboy

Kokotiam and how they met boi

BBB Gravity falls au

#bbb gravity falls au

Designs

Others

#bbb body swap

#bbb genderbend

#bbb element swap

EMBRACE

Art

#embrace

Best friend activities (Sam and jake)

Bees (Child tina)

Lets say i made this for organization or fun

[dominaexmachina]

You’re cheering a win — while gangrene spreads

Some of you are celebrating lawsuits against Midjourney, thinking they’ll restore the good old days of commissions and human-made fanart.

But let’s walk through how this really unfolds — for you.

🔍 1. Character Recognition Models Are Coming

Big IP holders already have extensive visual and text datasets of their characters.

It’s only a matter of time before they deploy detection models trained specifically to recognize deviations and unauthorized reinterpretations — from sexualization to gender-swaps.

📡 2. Platforms Will Be Forced to Integrate IP-Scanning APIs

No need to chase individual fanartists. Platforms will be required to connect to centralized scanning tools — designed and controlled by rights holders.

Upload an image → the API flags it → blocked or quietly deleted. No public drama, just silence. Or shadowban.

🧾 3. One Lawsuit Is All It Takes

Companies don’t need to send cease-and-desists to everyone. They target infrastructure.

Once a platform is legally pressured or threatened with deplatforming (remember Tumblr in 2018?), it will comply — automatically.

They won’t manually check if your blog is cute, transformative, or queer.

They’ll just press delete.

🖼️ 4. It Won’t Matter If It’s AI or Human

Once automated detection is in place, the question of who made the image becomes irrelevant.

If it looks like protected IP — it’s treated as infringement.

📉 5. The 2018 Tumblr Purge Was Just a Dress Rehearsal

When Apple removed Tumblr from the App Store over child exploitation concerns, the platform overreacted — purging thousands of blogs in a broad NSFW sweep.

No due process. No clear appeals. Just mass deletion.

Tumblr has done this before. And that was before AI.

🧠 And here’s the part you’re missing:

This isn’t just about AI art.

The same infrastructure that blocks machine-made fanart can — and will — block yours.

You’re not cheering for justice.

You’re cheering like a patient who’s glad their infected finger was cut off — not realizing the blood is already carrying sepsis to the lungs.

[jcmarchi]

A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/a-portable-light-system-that-can-digitize-everyday-objects/

A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects

When Nikola Tesla predicted we’d have handheld phones that could display videos, photographs, and more, his musings seemed like a distant dream. Nearly 100 years later, smartphones are like an extra appendage for many of us.

Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display capabilities of other everyday objects. One avenue they’re exploring is reprogrammable surfaces — or items whose appearances we can digitally alter — to help users present important information, such as health statistics, as well as new designs on things like a wall, mug, or shoe.

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the University of California at Berkeley, and Aarhus University have taken an intriguing step forward by fabricating “PortaChrome,” a portable light system and design tool that can change the color and textures of various objects. Equipped with ultraviolet (UV) and red, green, and blue (RGB) LEDs, the device can be attached to everyday objects like shirts and headphones. Once a user creates a design and sends it to a PortaChrome machine via Bluetooth, the surface can be programmed into multicolor displays of health data, entertainment, and fashion designs.

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PortaChrome: A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects Video: MIT CSAIL

To make an item reprogrammable, the object must be coated with photochromic dye, an invisible ink that can be turned into different colors with light patterns. Once it’s coated, individuals can create and relay patterns to the item via the team’s graphic design software, or use the team’s API to interact with the device directly and embed data-driven designs. When attached to a surface, PortaChrome’s UV lights saturate the dye while the RGB LEDs desaturate it, activating the colors and ensuring each pixel is toned to match the intended design.

Zhu and her colleagues’ integrated light system changes objects’ colors in less than four minutes on average, which is eight times faster than their prior work, “Photo-Chromeleon.” This speed boost comes from switching to a light source that makes contact with the object to transmit UV and RGB rays. Photo-Chromeleon used a projector to help activate the color-changing properties of photochromic dye, where the light on the object’s surface is at a reduced intensity.

“PortaChrome provides a more convenient way to reprogram your surroundings,” says Yunyi Zhu ’20, MEng ’21, an MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, affiliate of CSAIL, and lead author on a paper about the work. “Compared with our projector-based system from before, PortaChrome is a more portable light source that can be placed directly on top of the photochromic surface. This allows the color change to happen without user intervention and helps us avoid contaminating our environment with UV. As a result, users can wear their heart rate chart on their shirt after a workout, for instance.”

Giving everyday objects a makeover

In demos, PortaChrome displayed health data on different surfaces. A user hiked with PortaChrome sewed onto their backpack, putting it into direct contact with the back of their shirt, which was coated in photochromic dye. Altitude and heart rate sensors sent data to the lighting device, which was then converted into a chart through a reprogramming script developed by the researchers. This process created a health visualization on the back of the user’s shirt. In a similar showing, MIT researchers displayed a heart gradually coming together on the back of a tablet to show how a user was progressing toward a fitness goal.

PortaChrome also showed a flair for customizing wearables. For example, the researchers redesigned some white headphones with sideways blue lines and horizontal yellow and purple stripes. The photochromic dye was coated on the headphones and the team then attached the PortaChrome device to the inside of the headphone case. Finally, the researchers successfully reprogrammed their patterns onto the object, which resembled watercolor art. Researchers also recolored a wrist splint to match different clothes using this process.

Eventually, the work could be used to digitize consumers’ belongings. Imagine putting on a cloak that can change your entire shirt design, or using your car cover to give your vehicle a new look.

PortaChrome’s main ingredients

On the hardware end, PortaChrome is a combination of four main ingredients. Their portable device consists of a textile base as a sort of backbone, a textile layer with the UV lights soldered on and another with the RGB stuck on, and a silicone diffusion layer to top it off. Resembling a translucent honeycomb, the silicone layer covers the interlaced UV and RGB LEDs and directs them toward individual pixels to properly illuminate a design over a surface.

This device can be flexibly wrapped around objects with different shapes. For tables and other flat surfaces, you could place PortaChrome on top, like a placemat. For a curved item like a thermos, you could wrap the light source around like a coffee cup sleeve to ensure it reprograms the entire surface.

The portable, flexible light system is crafted with maker space-available tools (like laser cutters, for example), and the same method can be replicated with flexible PCB materials and other mass manufacturing systems.

While it can also quickly convert our surroundings into dynamic displays, Zhu and her colleagues believe it could benefit from further speed boosts. They’d like to use smaller LEDs, with the likely result being a surface that could be reprogrammed in seconds with a higher-resolution design, thanks to increased light intensity.

“The surfaces of our everyday things are encoded with colors and visual textures, delivering crucial information and shaping how we interact with them,” says Georgia Tech postdoc Tingyu Cheng, who was not involved with the research. “PortaChrome is taking a leap forward by providing reprogrammable surfaces with the integration of flexible light sources (UV and RGB LEDs) and photochromic pigments into everyday objects, pixelating the environment with dynamic color and patterns. The capabilities demonstrated by PortaChrome could revolutionize the way we interact with our surroundings, particularly in domains like personalized fashion and adaptive user interfaces. This technology enables real-time customization that seamlessly integrates into daily life, offering a glimpse into the future of ‘ubiquitous displays.’”

Zhu is joined by nine CSAIL affiliates on the paper: MIT PhD student and MIT Media Lab affiliate Cedric Honnet; former visiting undergraduate researchers Yixiao Kang, Angelina J. Zheng, and Grace Tang; MIT undergraduate student Luca Musk; University of Michigan Assistant Professor Junyi Zhu SM ’19, PhD ’24; recent postdoc and Aarhus University assistant professor Michael Wessely; and senior author Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL.

This work was supported by the MIT-GIST Joint Research Program and was presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in October.

[dnaayan-blog]

Prepare for the Shift: Top Graphic Design Trends of 2025

AI-powered design. More and more designers are integrating AI into their design workflows as a personal assistant to help with inspiration and ideation, as well as to add finishing touches to designs.

3d banner Design Using Creative Art 👈.

Hyper-Personalized Experiences

Why it matters: AI and data-driven design let websites and apps adapt in real-time to users.

What to do: Learn behavioral UX, dynamic content design, and personalization APIs

To keep up, brands are going beyond visuals and adding things like sound, touch, and even smell to create richer, multi-sensory experiences. Sonic branding is also expected to grow in 2025, as it helps brands stand out and build emotional connections with audiences.

[craftexchange]

offering: candles (soy container candles and small beeswax tapers), cross-stitch patches (i’ve been making butterflies for myself so I can post some references, preferably with no text), and knit goods (hats, socks, fingerless gloves). I’ll post some example pics on @bellis-apis, which is my side blog. I’m also a graphic designer if you’d like some help with a craft brand. ISO: ceramics! I would especially love some candlestick holders, but any functional dish/cup/whatever would be incredible. Also generally interested in art, stickers, patches, sculptures, and woven things! Just DM me and we can make something work!

I can definitely ship in the US, and am willing to look into other places

[toonocosm]

Being torn in two directions

I made Api in January 2011, and I was 17 years old then. An unexperienced 17 year old designed this character, and instead of changing his design over the years I've done my best to make his design work through small adjustments. The biggest change I ever gave him was a new design for his hands to make them more expressive, which was always a major goal with his design. But it's still a design by a 17 year old that had barely ever drawn a robot in their life.

The objectivly smart thing to do now would be to give him a redesign with my current experience and skill level, to make his design make more sense. Like giving him a screen for a face to keep his facial expressions. His current face does not make sense, metal can't move like like. And I would make his body be more informed by real anatomy, something I had little knowledge of as a teen.

I've known doing this would be a smart thing to do for several years, so why haven't I done it yet?

Attachment and sentimentality. Pure emotional reasons. Ever since I made Api he has been my comfort character. His personality is what it is because I needed someone who was kind to me, something no one was to me IRL at the time. I was depressed, suicidal and had still not received a diagnosis for my intellectual disability (and everyone was mad at me for being dumb af lmao). But having this imaginary person in my head helped me cope.

So yeah. He got a lot of attachment tied to him, which is why I haven't wanted to change him. But recently, I've really felt like my art has been held back, specifically by Api. And it's like being torn in two directions, do I want sentimentality or advancement?

I might do some sketches, to see if I find something I like. If I don't, well his old design is still there. I've thought about tying in my experience with art burnout to keep some sentimental symbolism, something about starting anew... or getting through this brutal burnout and coming out of it better. Something cheesy like that.

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