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Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art (Gift Article) The advent of A.I. has shocked me into questioning my relationship with art. Will humans still be able to draw for a living?

Artist's view of AI and its impact. As usual, the comments are interesting, too. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Adobe jacks up prices for same tools with a shiny new label Adobe's new "Creative Cloud Pro" plan now comes with a new name, a bigger bill, and not much else. Here's how the price tiers compare in May 2025.

Oh joy. Adobe is upping its prices. appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

A vertical-format, black and white photo of an enormous dark cloud apparently reaching down out the the sky like a fist. Underneath, a dark, rocky island, waves crashing against it, and the ocean pulling back on a sandy beach.

‘The hand of God’, 2019. I believe this is a ‘pannus’ cloud. I had just packed up and started to head back for breakfast when I saw this cloud developing. Breakfast had to wait.

A wonderful post from curator Meri @meritadocta.bsky.social :

Book cover for the second edition of "InDesign: A Complete Course and Compendium of Featurs" by Steve Laskevitch, published by Rocky Nook. Behind the text is a purple/pink colored image of metal type spelling out names of InDesign features. (Yes, we know real metal type would be backwards.)

Speaking of InDesign...the second edition of our InDesign Course & Compendium book is available for purchase. The eBook is ready now, the print book is available for preorder.
We hope it serves! rockynook.com/shop/course-...

Resources from Luminous Works Training Resources from Luminous Works, Seattle's only Adobe Authorized Training Center. Always hands-on and in-person.

We updated our script to convert Markdown to styled InDesign text to include tables and hyperlinks. Fun!
Hope you find it useful! luminousworks.com/resources#ma...

A picture looking up at the pyramid of the TransAmerica building in San Francisco, taken from one side, so looks like a triangle, with other triangular pieces higher up. Rendered in black and white, with the sky darkened.

Triangle is the prompt for Day 11 of #JanuArty #JanuArty2025, and I reworked this picture from a few years ago - and the TransAmerica building again. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome

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Three holding towers for gasometers, also known as gas holders, which are empty and so only the support frames are seen. They overlap in such a way that there are multiple curves seen almost like a roller-coaster.

I took a different direction with the Day 14 prompt of Plant, and went for this industrial plant rather than the green variety for #JanuArty #JanuArty2025. Loved the shaped of these multiple empty gas holding tower supports - another from Lisbon, Portugal.

Photoshop logo evolution 1990–2024

Photoshop logo evolution 1990–2024

The number 50 and a vertical line under it, like a ruler tick, welded onto a highly textured steel surface. The welded line intersects a yellow band perpendicular to it in the center of the frame.

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 7 #marks. I call this "indelible". The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wanted this mark to endure, apparently.

Straight-on photo of a brick wall with a polygonal protrusion catching warm light on the left of the frame, shadowed and blue to the right. The effect is of 5 vertical bands of tone

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 8 #tone.

A twisted triangular form covered in a grass texture on a dark blue background.

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 11 #Triangle Well, it started simply as an exercise in surreal geometry, then I felt it needed to be covered in grass.

A print on textured green paper. In black, an antique engraved illustration of an armillary sphere on a stand. Overlaid on that, in hot pink ink, an antique botanical illustration of a magnolia flower. Vertical orientation, with black text to the side, "Fig. 2"

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 12 #pink This is a print from the series Natural Philosophy

An auto repair shop with a sign declaring "Quantum Mechanic" with a wave shaped wrench with the numbers 19 and 27 on it. To either side of the wrench is a cartoon of Felix the Cat, dead on the left, alive and well on the right.

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 Day 13 #tool With gratitude to Walker Evans and his 1936 photo "Auto parts shop. Atlanta, Georgia". I like physics humo(u)r

Close view of intricately textured white leaves with green edges. People who know plants can likely identify the species. I'm not those people, sadly.

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 day 14, a wonderfully textured #plant.

Info at https://centerforbookarts.org/classes/in-person/letterpress-certification

Letterpress #Tools at the Center for Book Arts, NYC
#JanuArty #Bookarts #NYCxDesign #Photography #ILoveNY #WeLoveNYC #NYC #NewYorkCity

An elephant wandering amongst display cases

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 day 15, a curious #animal in the Museum of Natural History, London. Although I don't think AI is inherently/always an evil, I'd like to point out that none was used here. One of my favorite projects. One may wish to seek out Ivan Krylov's 1814 fable "The Inquisitive Man"

A great many naked mannequins, but one is wearing red socks.

#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 day 16, #clothing. When a retail store shutters, a strange crowd may be seen shuffling about.

Our brand-new website is live! www.205.tf

Explore our newly redesigned site! Enjoy an optimized user experience to browse our catalog, discover our new release, and get a behind-the-scenes look at our designers’ creative process.

#graphicdesign #typography #design

Hmm. I see….

What was broken after conversion? And may we ask what software you’re using? We are deeply interested in creative workflows

A squirrel holding a piece of bread has a discussion with a bird.

“Good day, sir. I’d heard you’d recently come into possession of some bread. I see that I was not misinformed. As it so happens, I too enjoy baked goods. Might you be persuaded to part with a small percentage? I would of course offer fair compensation at the current market rate.”

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To make up for mis-naming the Black-crowned Night Heron yesterday, I'll try and make up for it by sharing this short video clip taken a little later in the evening. For some reason the theme from the Pink Panther plays in my head when watching this.

The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Numbers 17-20 of Rubber Saul Vol. 2. A series celebrating mid century graphic design by reimagining the songs of The Beatles as old film posters.

James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared view of the Pillars of Creation