The Rise of AI in Typography
Artificial intelligence has transformed the way designers approach their craft, and typography is no exception.
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Blue Willow AI Imagines Retro Leading Lady Posters
The Discord user’s prompt asked the AI to imagine a 1940’s style leading lady poster.
These People Do Not Exist
All images © thispersondoesnotexist.com These faces were created by a generative adversarial network or GAN. A GAN is a machine learning system where two neural networks compete against each other, while at the same time learning and producing new, better output. The networks are called the generator and the discriminator. […]
Scunthorpe Sans, Blocks Smut and Filth
The good folks over at Vole.wtf bring us Scunthorpe Sans, a self-censoring typeface. It’s able to detect the words f***, s***, p***, t***, w***, c*** and dozens more, but with a special exemption for “Scunthorpe”; that town has suffered enough. How this s*** works: Modern fonts can combine letters into […]
NSO Group’s Phantom Brochure
“Turn your target’s smartphone into an intelligence goldmine” That’s the pitch from NSO Groups’ Westbridge to US police departments. I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that they are able to sell this technology freely in the US or that law enforcement officials find the hacking technology “awesome.” Outside […]
Face Mask China: Improvise!
The shortage of masks have forced some Chinese get creative in how they protect themselves. Water bottles are big it would appear. What I find striking in these pictures is the spirit, that they can still see the humour in what they are wearing. All of these photos I found […]
Remington and Underwood Classics
Remington and Underwood created classic American typewriters. Here are some high quality stills of two 1900’s models. I also posted some advertising for each company dating from that time. The Russian ad for Underwood I have no information on but the typography is terrific! By the by, the tagline for […]
The Evolution of Fireworks From Pyro to Gyro
Here's the Technology That's Choreographing Drone Light ShowsWatch this video on YouTube From Pyro to Gyro. Mashable have published a short fluff piece video on the tech behind choreographing drone light shows. It’s an interesting glimpse into future of what’s coming. Previously similar posts: VIDEO MAPPING — RALPH LAUREN 4D […]
Popup Trombone
Pop Up Trombone by matthew rayfield is a funny piece of coding. As Matthew describes it on GitHub, it’s a trombone you play by resizing a POPUP window (but it doesn’t really sound like a trombone, sorry) It doesn’t have quite the same staying and playing power as the classic Pull […]
Background Noise Generator – The Sound Of The Irish Coast
It’s been ages since I’ve posted any type of online generator here but this one is too good to pass up. At mynoise.net you can just listen and/or interact with over 150 different soundscapes. There are categories like: I want to sleepRain On A Tent If you have trouble falling […]