I always excited whenever I see new work from Evgeny Zubkov, an illustrator and graphic designer from Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. A couple of years back, we have featured his awe-inspiring illustration series of ‘CARBONGRAD 1999’ and now he is back with ‘Северный Паук’ which means ‘Northern Spider’. In his words, ‘a personal experimental project about an alternative “spider-man” in the realities of the Siberian province’. And it looks quite fantastic, well done Evgeny. I just love the idea and obviously his craft to execute his vision makes this even more impressive.

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It’s cool to see products sharing enhancements through user experience and technical implementations that actually improve usage on the daily basis. It might pretty much product talk right now but this is why I always admire what the fine folks from Unsplash are building. Today we are taking a look at ‘Visual Search’ which is a new way on Unsplash to find more images. In a few words, you start by either drag & drop or paste the image URL in order to find images easier either for topics, find the original image on Unsplash, or to find a similar image. Let’s take a look!

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Transforming our visual understanding of an image into keyword inputs is challenging. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if you could take any existing image and use that as the basis for your search?

In their words

Making hard to search images easy to find

With Visual Search, you simply click the Visual Search icon in the search bar and drop the image or URL into the popup to search for similar visual results.

Finding the original Unsplash image and photographer

Sometimes you see an image in use on a site and you wonder “Is that an Unsplash image?”. Or you might have an image on your hard drive, but you’ve lost the name of the original photographer to attribute. Now with Visual Search, you can drop any version of the image into Unsplash to find the source image—it even works with remixes of the image.

Finding a similar free Unsplash image from elsewhere on the web

Have you ever found an image on another site and wished you could use it, but it’s under a more restrictive license? With Visual Search, you can drop the image into the search input and find similar openly licensed images on Unsplash.

I personally had to give it a try and it works by using one of my Osore Lightroom photos. Well done Unsplash Team!

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Writing in with some inspiring shots from one of my new favorite projects celebrating our one and only Mother Earth from a bird’s eye. I was first introduced to the @dailyoverview by my sister when she shared a recent shot from the project’s Instagram showcasing a freighter full of containerized cargo awaiting its turn at Port. We come from a line of intermodal transport nerds as my late father spent summers working as a deckhand on an oil tanker in the South Pacific and always shared his love for being out at sea.

Now, I have the great privilege to live not 10 minutes from one of the world’s busiest ports – here in Oakland, California so the ability to experience these marvels at sea level is quite easy. It’s not until you picture these modern day marvels from above that you learn to appreciate their beauty. Same goes for just about anything else when you’re able to see it from a different perspective. Enjoy just a few of my favorite shots curated by the talented team at Overview including clouds floating over the Amazon, a lumber mill on the Oregon-Washington border, a crop-formed Bagua arrangement in Colorado, Evaporation Ponds in New Mexico and blades for wind turbines in Arkansas among many more….

I’ll truly look forward to the next time I’m 36,000 feet above ground so I can once again appreciate the “Overview Effect” but until then, I hope this post will satiate that desire for all of us.  

Over-view’s Mission:

Overview was founded by Benjamin Grant and is aimed at spotlighting Mother Earth from a great distance which has been proven to stimulate awe, increase desire to collaborate, and foster long-term thinking. Grant and his team aim to inspire these feelings — commonly referred to as the Overview Effect — through our imagery, products, and collaborations. By embracing the perspective that comes from this vantage point, we believe we can stimulate a new awareness that will lead to a better future for our one and only home. Learn about their latest book “Overview Timelapse” here: https://www.over-view.com/timelapse/.

Old school console is making a slow comeback in our household. Most of us have been staying in confinement during the holidays. Away from the relatives, kids going aloud for the season’ greetings and we can understand them. I had to pull off the shelves, one of the SNES Classic Edition to keep those monsters controlled. Tyler Pate is an art director/graphic designer, illustrator, and all-around creative from Florence, SC. He published a series of illustrations of Nintendo past consoles made with the Wacom, they are sublime. Give them a look!

Pate is currently working as a full-time freelancer and illustrator, pushing his abilities and developing innovative solutions for brands and companies. Follow him on his website

Growing up has always been surrounded by video games and consoles. Each year brought so many hours in front of the television screen. Nothing could ever compare to the vintage distressed memories of the nintendo consoles I’ve grown to love so much.