As we turn the page on another year, we can’t help but hope for a brighter and more peaceful future. The past year has been filled with challenges and struggles. We look for calm in the midst of worldly chaos. We hope the new year brings order and peace to the world and becomes a time of healing and growth. Let’s work together to create a more harmonious, compassionate society in the spirit of unity and understanding. Happy New Year 2023!
There are almost as many myths and legends about him as there are about Shakespeare. Well, that may sound a bit exaggerated, but for years half the world has been trying to figure out who has his finger on the spray can. His paintings are primarily characterized by criticism of our Society and have the status of true works of art. Anyone who sees a real Banksy or – even better – even has one on the wall of his house, is a huge lucky guy. Rumors about his identity, which the artist keeps top secret, make the rounds again and again – but no one knows who he really is. Until now!
Read more: Banksy’s identity is said to have been accidentally revealed and he is part of a band
“The web’s future is always changing. Web design trends for UX/UI are no exception, and 2023 offers designers a wealth of cutting-edge and intriguing concepts to delve into. If you are dealing with app design services, then make sure that the company you work with knows the main trends of the industry, because this is partly an indicator of their professionalism. For your benefit, we have listed 2023 UX/UI trends so you can keep up to date. The predictions of industry experts and our own findings serve as the foundation for this article’s views on the future of user experience.”
Read more at Rebellion Research: Top Upcoming Trends in UX/UI Design for 2023
“Zaha Hadid Architects took visual cues from undulating desert dunes when creating the sinuous headquarters for environmental management company Beeah Group in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.”
“Designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid, the long-awaited Beeah Headquarters takes the form of a series “of interconnecting dunes” that echo its Al Sajaa desert surroundings.”
Read more at Dezeen: Zaha Hadid Architects completes dune-like Beeah Headquarters in Sharjah
To stay competitive, designers will need additional knowledge and expertise to contribute in multidisciplinary contexts, perhaps leading to increasingly exotic specializations. The changes resulting from Ai will be fully enveloping for designers and creators.
Six Ai tools for designers:
Dall E2, Astria, Jasper, Luma Ai, Runway ML, Durable
Baraye (For, Because of…) has become the theme song of the protestors in Iran. It was written by Shervin Hajipour who has since been arrested by the Iranian government. Musicians all over the world have recorded this hauntingly beautiful, sad song. This version is sung in Farsi with English subtitles. It has been submitted for a Grammy award in a new category, Songs for Social Change.
“A growing body of research suggests that human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — bears striking similarity to this kind of so-called “emergent behavior” in nature: occasions when organisms like birds or fish or ants act as a cohesive unit, without hierarchical direction from a designated leader. How that local response is transmitted — how one bird follows another, how I retweet you and you retweet me — is also determined by the structure of the network. For birds, signals along the network are passed from eyes or ears to brains pre-wired at birth with the accumulated wisdom of the millenia. For humans, signals are passed from screen to screen, news feed to news feed, along an artificial superstructure designed by humans but increasingly mediated by at-times-unpredictable algorithms. It is curation algorithms, for example, that choose what content or users appear in your feed; the algorithm determines the seven birds, and you react.”
Read more at Noema: How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds
“It’s very likely you don’t give a great deal of thought to where the digital colors you use originally came from. Nor, probably, have you wondered who might “own” a particular color, when you picked it when creating something in Photoshop. But a lot of people are about to give this a huge amount of their attention, as their collection of PSD files gets filled with unwanted black, due to a licensing change between Adobe and Pantone.”
“As of now, widely used Adobe apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free, and those wishing for those colors to appear in their saved files will need to pay for a separate license. And this is real life.”
Read more at Kotaku.com: You’re Going To Have To Pay To Use Some Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now
