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Crayola Crayons Through the Years: Every Color and Shade

Crayola has been inspiring young artists for over a century with their collections of vibrant crayons. These crayons are used to teach children how to identify colors with their fun names and bright labels. In tribute to a brand that’s been so important to kids since 1903, AAA State of Play created this beautiful infographic displaying every color that Crayola has ever created. There are plenty of discontinued sets like glitter crayons, neon crayons, and even multi-colored crayons, but this chart has captured them all.

Crayola Crayons Through the Years: Every Color and Shade #Infographic


Google announced in this year’s ISTELive Edtech conference that it has partnered with Adobe on providing a licensed Adobe Express program across Chromebooks. The aim of this launch is to provide schools with easy access to Adobe Express so they can distribute the platform to students, hence encouraging and promoting creation of more immersive and innovative projects and experiments.


Google Launches Direct Access to Adobe Express across Students’ Chromebooks



Pinterest launched an individual app ‘Shuffles’ for creating collages in August of 2022. The app has since been available to selected users, but is now being released to everyone.

 


Via the app, users can make artistic displays using creative tools such as overlays, animation effects, music, etc., and then share the results with other users in the app, as well as on Pinterest to boost discovery.

Pinterest's New Creative App ‘Shuffles’ is Now Available to Everyone



In an attempt to further promote NFT art on its platform, Twitter has begun testing a new display feature for NFTs that shows a larger picture of an NFT along with details like title and creator, in the form of a link preview.

 

Twitter is Experimenting with 'NFT Tiles' - Link Preview Display of NFTs



Over time, AI technology has developed in new, efficient ways and among a variety of its forms, AI art has recently become popular. Creators including artists have used the technology to generate unique digital art pieces.

 

Of course Meta being a leading digital technology-driven company decided to take AI art to the next level. As part of its Generative AI research, Meta has launched a new AI system that uses machine learning to generate high-quality videos from text prompts, as claimed by the company.

 

Meta Experiments with New AI Video Technology ‘Make-A-Video’ to Create Digital Art



Meta is continuing its support for the promotion of NFTs, even though NFT sales have started declining now. The company had originally launched the NFT display option on Instagram to selected users in the US and is now rolling it out in more than 100 countries. In honour of expanding the feature, Mark Zuckerberg shared his first soon-to-be NFT image on Instagram.

 

NFTs on Instagram could be shared within the main Feed, Stories, as well as Direct Messages. A Digital Collectibles tag will be displayed next to the NFTs, tapping which will show information about the creator of the work, along with the ownership of their NFT.

Meta Expands NFT Display Option on Instagram to More Countries

 


After testing the new NFT profile picture display feature for the past few months, Twitter is now releasing the option for Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS. The company plans to roll the feature out to all users later.


 

As a Twitter Blue subscriber, your NFT image will be linked directly to your ownership data on OpenSea. Only actual owners of the NFT profiles will have their images displayed in the new hexagonal format with official links. Additionally, the links will help reduce unauthorized use of the images.

 

According to Twitter, the new feature “provides a seamless, user-friendly way for people on Twitter to verify their NFT ownership”

NFT Profile Picture Option on Twitter is Now Available to Twitter Blue Users

The Positive Impact of Art on Our Brain


Where art and science are thought to be at crossroads with each other, the opposite is true. The close relationship and link between art and science exist and science itself has proven it. Our mental health depends upon our surrounding. The better the environment is to our senses, the greater and more positive the impact on our mental health.


Ask yourself a simple question right now – Would you like to be in a room that is blank and dull or a room in which there is at least a colour? Your answer would be the second one unless you're feeling low. But here's the thing: Our brains react to art more when they're feeling low. Art is known to tackle humongous mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. 



The Positive Impact of Art on Our Brain #Infographic

Why Art is Trending in Healthcare

Art has the power to lift the atmosphere of any room, so it only makes sense if we associate it with healthcare. With the pandemic going on and people having to stay either in their home or in the hospital, looking at blank walls can only bring down the morale and willpower. Staying stuck in a room or in an environment where there is no aesthetics, can further deteriorate the patient's condition. 


All these facts concerning the link between art and health have been scientifically proven. In fact, it is exciting to see how various artworks can invoke a range of positive emotions and feelings. The content of the artwork can make a patient's anxiety fall and make them more mentally active. This also helps them to fight against all negative emotions that they encounter during their illness.


Why Art is Trending in Healthcare #Infographic

Google Arts and Culture acknowledges the tribute to frontline workers by Tom Croft

Although coronavirus has managed to put a halt to the global exercises in less than a single year, there also happens to be multiple perspectives on the given situation. This pandemic has caused the bravest fighters to come forward on the frontline and help those who have seen the darkest days of their lives while suffering from the deadly virus having hopelessness engraved in their hearts. To make sure that these real-life superheroes get the credit for their selfless performances, an artist named Tom Croft put together around 700 portraits of the said fighters as a part of his initiative called #potraitsforNHSheroes.

Google Arts and Culture acknowledges the tribute to frontline workers by Tom Croft

Guitars and their Effects throughout History

Quite contrary to the thought of guitars being a modern instrument, its history is known to be as old as 4000 years old. The guitar as we know it today has probably been derived from Spain, in the 16th century. It is said to be an advancement of a four-stringed instrument known as the Guitarra Latina, from the medieval times.

Yet, there have been many variations of this popular stringed instrument throughout history. Even the body of the guitar has undergone immense transformation and evolution. Today, a guitar's body is broad, but in the past, there have been guitars even in the shape of a lyre back in the 1800s. Today, we even have an electric guitar. Both the acoustic and electric guitar can be found being played widely in popular music. While the acoustic remains more of a choice for country music, whereas its electric counterpart gives effects which are more appropriate for rock and punk.

Guitars and their Effects throughout History #Infographic

Why Art is Good for Kids

The early years of every human being lay down the foundation for the rest of their lives. Child development is one of the most important topics in psychology. It is a blend of physical skills, mental as well as emotional feelings during the transitional years from the time of birth, all the way to the commencement of adulthood. Who doesn't want the best for their child? 

 Even before they can write, a child has the potential to make art because of their inherent playful nature. Through art, children learn to explore, experiment and make something which conveys their feelings and thoughts in the purest form. It also helps develop their motor skills, as they learn hand-eye coordination while drawing, painting, sculpting and similar activities.

Why Art is Good for Kids #Infographic

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