Pixelated Creatives

[Sherlene Holloman]

Iam trying to import video from an SD card into Final cut Pro x. The video was shot with a DSLR camera. The video comes out pixelated after importing it into the program. However, if I open up a clip in quicktime the video looks fine. I am assuming the issue lies within fcpx.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Brand strategy studio A LINE has collaborated with thought leadership events Forward to create a pixelated identity which looks to the future. With bold colours and a sharp, unmistakable central logo, Forward looks set to have the momentum it needs.

Armed with a brief to create something that felt both bold and futuristic yet also smart and intimate, A LINE settled on the name Forward as a nod to the fast-moving pace of the digital media industry.

"The idea for the name was born from the future focus of the event," the studio explains. "In an industry as fast-moving as media, and where the only acceptable movement is forward, this felt like a natural fit."

To maintain a connection between Tatari and the Forward event, A LINE used the company's existing design system as a springboard. From here, they modified the existing blocky, black and white Tatari logo and adapted it to fit the Forward identity. The result is a natural evolution which maintains a satisfying consistency with its parent company.

Take the symbol at the heart of the Forward branding: a giant letter F which appears to be made out of huge pixels. This not only shares similar design traits to Tatari, but its subtly distorted form taps into the theme of the events. Thanks to a section of the F being missing from where the arm usually branches out, the letter resembles an arrow pointing, suitably, forwards.

As well as the distinctive logo mark, which will appear across posters and merchandise such as clothing and water bottles, a series of motion assets were also created to demonstrate the flexibility of the design system and support digital signage at the event.

"The outcome was a fresh, modern brand identity that works as both a sub-brand and a standalone brand, and which manages to feel both timeless and futuristic," adds A LINE. "The first event in the series is planned for late 2022 in New York City."

I am very new to Illustrator. I've created a text only logo and exported it as a png. When I try to insert it as my email signature it becomes pixelated. How can I export it so it will not lose quality regardless of how small or large i need it to be. (I will also use it for letterhead, business cards and website).

Check the size,if it is in Points instead of inches then this could explain the pixelation. Try switching to inches and set it to at least 8.5 by 11. A PNG file preserves transparency,like if you didn't want the white background to appear behind it. A JPEG becomes pixelated when zoomed in,but if it has a high enough resolution then would be perfect for this instance. (Made the points mistake before and my exported work was very pixelated, I switched to inches and helped). Hope this helps.

This is likely due to a size issue. While it's true your creations in Illustrator are vector images and do not pixelate, exporting other file types most certainly can. Check your document size and create a large version. You can then scale it down as needed when you export your file or redefine the size when in use. You should export your logo as a PNG file and not a JPG, because JPG's create pixels and lose quality every time you save them.

Rule of thumb is to export your image at different sizes pending on what you want to use them as. While png's are lossless, they still pixelate at various sizes, so best practice is to export individual files for each use (one image at an email signature size, one image at the size for a banner on your page, etc.).

Thank you, Guy, for talking to us about your painting process and the upcoming show in Paris. Galerie Derouillon presents Love of Beginnings, a solo show by Guy Yanai, opening March 16, 2017. For more information, see here. And for further works from Guy, check out his website.

To read more from creatives in Tel Aviv, see our other portrait with designers Andrey Grishko & Shay Nifusi here. Check out other former artists in residence at Villa Lena from our trip to Tuscany here.

This Creative pixelated shoulder bag by PIXIE CREW is an original accessory for both younger girls or adults. It is light, easily stored, and its front section is fitted with a silicone panel allowing for our patented coloured pixels to be fitted to it, allowing its owner to create their very own picture, image or design for the bag. Full description...

Based in Spain, Pantone turns to the technological age and quizzes the mysteries devoured and divulged through the Internet. As a result, he explores the displacement of the light spectrum through color and repetition. He keeps this philosophy in mind as he wanders around the headquarters of Poltrona Frau, observing the collection, drafts, history, and archives of the brand.

Inside a dark room, the only source of light available to Pantone comes from his computer screen where rainbow-hued tiles overlap and wash his face and his room with a glow. He refines the palette of the tiles on his screen, saves the file, and walks out of the room to his workspace.

Here, he hangs a cloth, his primary material, on the wooden frame. With his gas mask on, he snatches a spray paint from his wheeled library of cans beside him and tests its color on the canvas, a shade of dark purple appearing on his canvas. The creation process begins, and Pantone, donning his customized uniform with his name engraved on the upper arm of the sleeve, closes himself off to the world as he enters his creative zone.

Soon, the trial transitions into a solid look: mini-square blocks in luminous colors, a reflection of a pixelated image witnessed in low-resolution videos. Together with Poltrona Frau, Pantone prints the design over the leather material of the Archibald armchair, giving the once monotone seat the blessings of his digital world-inspired touch.

A hand-made miniature scale model of the armchair in leather will also be available for purchase to give fans and followers of both Felipe Pantone and Poltrona Frau an opportunity to own a product of their collaboration as a souvenir.

So, I know a lot of you design your own Facebook timeline cover photos for your group or for your business page and I also know a lot of you get frustrated because it gets pixelated or loses quality, right? Guess what, even as a web designer, this was happening to me! [the horror!!!]

In most editing programs, you'll see what size the JPG will be, in my case it was 202.6kb, so I dragged the quality slider until I got it the closest to 100KB without going over [ya know, sort of like the Price is Right, ha!].

Johan Karlgen, a Swedish artist creates pixelated art pieces to add a touch of fun to bland locations. His artworks are very creative and blend in very well with the surroundings. He mostly uses pop-culture references or characters from video games to depict his art. He uses a variety of things as his canvas- a wall, drainage pipes, roads, blocks of concrete barriers, etc. Johan expresses his creativity by making regular uninteresting places interesting.

Saumya is an explorer of all things beautiful, quirky, and heartwarming. With her knack for art, design, photography, fun trivia, and internet humor, she takes you on a journey through the lighter side of pop culture.

Many of the artists included in this exhibition use code to generate pixelated imagery. But like pixel art of the past, generative art has also been marginalised by the art world for its associations with computing (and therefore the military-industrial complex) and because its creators have tended to reside outside established fine art institutions. Yet it is the very fact that artists are engaging with generative systems that allows them to imagine socially progressive futures.

Thanks to new Web3 technologies such as blockchain, NFTs, and smart contracts, the vast community of digital creators can now marketise its work in a way that achieves parity with traditional fine artists. This is expanding the domain of art into a new digital geography in which the artist is reborn as a creative entrepreneur with direct access to their own community of collectors. The aesthetic consequence for the crypto art produced thus far has been an eclectic visual repertoire born of the collision of new and old media.

is an art group based in Los Angeles and Berlin. Founded in 1997 by Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital, it is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of pixel art, often referred to as The Godfathers of Pixel. The central idea behind eBoy was to have fun using newly available digital tools and media. The decision to directly work on, and for, the screen led to the use of pixels. A modular-based work system started to evolve and resulted in complex object-based artwork. Their work has been presented in galleries worldwide and they have worked with major clients, including Adidas, Balenciaga, Coca-Cola, Google, Gucci and The New York Times, amongst many others.

Like eBoy, Qian Qian works one pixel at a time, regarding the square pixel grid as the essential architecture of pixel art. Known principally for his CryptoCitizens that capture the community of generative art collectors, his new work Full Moon Fever conjures an image of life on a digital frontier.

is an artist and graphic designer based in New York. With 20 years of experience working in the field of advertising and design, he has created award-winning work for prestigious brands including Samsung, Nike, Coca-Cola, and Google. He is currently the creative director of Bright Moments gallery and artist of the ongoing generative art collection, CryptoCitizens. His work has been featured by Apple and exhibited by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Lincoln Center, New York.

is an American artist currently based in Arkansas. Her work explores the space between the hand-drawn and the computer-drawn and considers how to blur those boundaries. She discovered generative art by chance when teaching herself programming and was drawn to the idea of creative coding. She uses p5js and JavaScript to build her programs and designs her own algorithmic brushes to complete each piece. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Digital for Miami Art Week (2021), Artists Who Code at VellumLA (2022), with Tezos at Art Basel, Hong Kong and Paris+ par Art Basel (2022), FEMGEN (2022), and Code Chronicles with bitforms gallery (2023).

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