All posts tagged: Creatives

Claude Design : Anthropic’s New AI Tool for Creatives

Claude Design : Anthropic’s New AI Tool for Creatives

Published by skeptic

Claude Design, developed by Anthropic, is a platform that connects design and implementation in a practical way. Matt Maher highlights its ability to generate cohesive design systems, such as buttons, fonts and color palettes, directly from uploaded files or repositories. This feature helps maintain consistency across projects while simplifying the process of creating professional outputs. Discover how Claude Design’s image recognition enhances precision in visual projects and explore its customization options, including real-time editing and adaptable layouts. Gain insight into its animation and data visualization capabilities, which help present complex information in clear, interactive formats. This explainer will provide a closer look at these features and their practical uses.  New Claude Design Tool TL;DR Key Takeaways : Claude Design integrates seamlessly with Claude Code, allowing smooth transitions from creative ideation to technical execution for projects like websites, animations and presentations. The platform offers advanced features such as image recognition, streamlined workflows and tools for creating comprehensive design systems, enhancing productivity and efficiency. Customization options, including light/dark modes, layout variations and real-time editing, allow users to …

How social media paved the road to poetry for these Latina creatives

How social media paved the road to poetry for these Latina creatives

Published by Sam Flores

Over the decade it took Silver Lake author Yesika Salgado to achieve social media popularity with her writing, the jacaranda trees outside her neighborhood haunt Café Tropical have been witness to the triumphs and challenges that made her the poet she is today. Dropping out of high school, working as a cashier at CVS and falling in and out of love inspired Salgado to write poems that she would share on Instagram, where she has amassed over 170,000 followers. “Up until 2016, I had to work service jobs,” said Salgado, 41. “I worked as a cashier in a parking garage for like 10 years. I knew what it was like to be on your lunch break, eating your life, being tired, your feet sore, and scrolling on your phone just looking for something. I wanted my work to be something that would find those people in the most accessible place: on their phones.” In doing so, Salgado joined a growing community of poets on social media — helping revive an art form which is being …

My Favorite Nonfiction Book for Creatives

My Favorite Nonfiction Book for Creatives

Published by Jenni Sidey

Creative Quest by Questlove Before I even get into the meat of this book, I want to recommend listening to the audiobook. If you do, you’ll be treated not only to hearing Questlove’s words from his own mouth but also original music by him and members of the Roots, plus guest appearances by comedy legends Fred Armisen and Robin Thede, and so many other greats from various corners of the creative world. Listening to the audiobook is a whole experience. A multihyphenate member of the Roots, Questlove is one of those rare individuals who not only possesses great curiosity but also puts that curiosity to work. He approaches new-to-him subject matter, artistry, and culture with enthusiasm rather than fear. This is why he makes for such a great teacher of creative philosophies, the real work that must accompany a passion, if you want to make something of it, and the challenges we all face in our pursuit of achievement and evolution. If you’re thinking, Well of course he can boldly traverse alien landscapes with all …

In South-Central, a film festival makes space for neighborhood creatives

In South-Central, a film festival makes space for neighborhood creatives

Published by Sam Flores

The golden-hour sun illuminated the crowd standing under the trees outside Mercado La Paloma, which had gathered on Saturday afternoon for a panel on the lack of Latino representation in the film industry as part of the South Central Film Festival. “I’m a queer, undocumented Mexican immigrant. I am what inspires me to create stories,” said Armando Ibáñez, the 42-year-old, Los Angeles-based filmmaker known for his YouTube series “Undocumented Tales.” Earlier that day, Ibáñez had won a jury award for his short film, “Her Last Day in the U.S.,” about an elderly undocumented immigrant woman returning to Mexico after living in the United States with her family for almost 40 years. “I would always see movies from Hollywood about immigrants — characters that were supposed to represent me — full of stereotypes,” Ibáñez said. “We are more than just crossing the border and getting deported. We have feelings. We have a past. We have a present. We have complex stories.” Filmmakers Kei Austin, from left, Sierra Fujita, Armando Ibanez, Daniel Eduvijes Carrera and Kevin Benjamin …