Tag: animals

27
Mar

Shazam-like app identifies plants and animals in your photos

Posted by / Nature, Photography, Technology & Innovation

If you’ve ever gone hiking and come across plants and animals you were unfamiliar with, and wanted to know more, there’s now an app for that. You could try to describe what you see and type it into Google. But you might not get the proper results. However, similar to Shazam—an app which identifies music from audio recordings—the Seek app allows you to identify plants and animals from your photos using image recognition technology.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
17
Oct

Giant straw animals invade Japanese fields after rice harvest

Posted by / Art & Design, Nature, Travel

Fall is here, which means that it’s time for the harvest and the annual fairs that celebrate it. In Japanese culture waste is often minimized, especially in food. Sometimes, during the annual rice harvest, the leftover rice straw is transformed into straw animals.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
27
Jan

Artist turns old CDs Into amazing animal sculptures

Posted by / Art & Design, Nature

Although we’re taught from a young age not to be wasteful, a broken CD isn’t much good to anyone. In fact, CDs are pretty much obsolete these days. Unless you’re Australian artist Sean Avery that is.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
09
Dec

Beautiful, geometric lamps add a charming touch to any room

Posted by / Art & Design

Tel Aviv-based design studio Sturlesi Design was looking for to offer a unique and authentic approach to ambient lighting. Hence, a collection of decorative, geometrical lamps were created.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
24
Nov

Modern light fixtures turn into animals when illuminated

Posted by / Art & Design, Technology & Innovation

When award-winning Tel Aviv-based designer Chen Bikovski was growing up, she was fascinated by pop-up books. Mesmerized with the experience of three-dimensional storybooks, she transformed this idea into her design practice.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
09
Nov

Powerful ads feature animals tied up like garbage bags

Posted by / Advertising, Habits, Nature

An argument can be made that in order to deserve respect from other humans, you need to be human. However, with peoples deep love for animals, it raises fundamental questions about the basis of moral rights. Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
29
Aug

Tables designed to look like animals emerging from water

Posted by / Art & Design, Nature

A coffee table can serve as a convenient place to rest your drinks and feet. It can also be a design element that can serve as a great conversation piece. If you’re looking to spice up your living room with a unique piece of furniture, these coffee tables from Derek Pearce should do just that.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
04
Aug

Fake animal facts left all over Los Angeles Zoo

Posted by / Humour, Nature, Travel

California-based comedian Jeff Wysaski, who goes by the handle Obvious Plant, has recently pranked the public. If you happened to visit the Los Angeles Zoo recently, you may have spotted some rather unusual facts regarding some of the animals.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
25
Jan

Artist creates animal portraits on wooden canvases

Posted by / Illustration, Nature

I’ve previously posted about paintings on tree logs that mirror their surroundings. Now, an illustrator and tattoo artist Kirsten Roodbergen from the Netherlands has created lovely animal portraits on slices of wood from cross-sectioned tree trunks.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
05
Jun

Adorable, brutally honest circle of life illustrations

Posted by / Humour, Illustration, Nature

Mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, insects and other invertebrates each have their own unique circle of life. And while all animals need to be safe and to reproduce, they also need to eat; one animal feeds off of another to survive—that’s just how it is.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
03
Dec

Geometric models of animals made entirely out of paper

Posted by / Art & Design

Artist Wolfram Kampffmeyer—aka PaperWolf—has become renowned for his talent creating stunning 3D geometric models; beautiful polygonal animals made from coloured paper. Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com
29
Apr

Infographic: The world’s deadliest animals

Posted by / Infographic, Nature

Sharks, lions and snakes may strike fear into your heart, but they do not even come close to being the deadliest animal on earth. Of the top ten deadliest creatures to humans, most are smaller than a Toonie! And sometimes distinguishing between a cute animal and deadly one isn’t an easy task.Continue Reading..

Daniel Swanick

Daniel is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing in the Greater Toronto Area.

https://danielswanick.com

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