Tools is about digital softwares and analogue devices, applications and appliances to be utilised alone and/or in combinations for creative projects.
Krita is an open source digital painting tool targeting painters, illustrators, comic artists and animators. As it originally started off as an image editor and Photoshop competitor, it also still retains many of those functionalities too.
(more…)For a variety of reasons and uses it may be nice to create palettes of several colours that inherently work with each other. Adobe Colour Wheel is a free, intuitively usable colour picking tool with some limited additional functions that may come handy when transitioning a creative practice online.
Sculptris is three dimensional modeling software that’s specifically tailored to accommodate the needs of sculptors, visual artists and 3D designers. Unlike other software that use polygons, Sculptris allows users to digitally sculpt their 3D models with a rich sculpting toolset and a beginner-friendly user interface which ease new users quickly into more advanced levels. As a free software, it is a great way for less experienced creators to find a pathway into 3D printing.
(more…)FileSender initially is a server software file sharing developed to the requirements of the higher education and research community. After installation onto an institutional server, the instutution can host its own filesharing/sending system independent from data safety and security concerns that come with common commercial offers.
(more…)D Emptyspace is different to other virtual gallery/exhibition softwares in that it exists exclusively on iPhones and iPads; no browser based or desktop application, no other OS. The app lets you create and explore immersive virtual galleries based on the images on your device. Choosing from a variety of gallery templates, the user may first upgrade the virtual interior to give it some personal feel and then arrange their work onto the gallery walls, thus inherently creating a visitor journey to discover the work.
(more…)Slack is a proprietary instant messaging platform, with basic functions similar to other platforms: persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging etc. It’s core ambition is to replace email as the primary method of communication and sharing within organisations, i.e. to consolidate all communication that might otherwise be scattered across emails, text messages, or in person meetings.
(more…)In difference to other communication apps, Discord may not be on many instructors’ screen, but it quite certainly is on their students’. Originally mostly frequented in the gaming community as a separate Voice over IP (VOIP) channel used in parallel to any ongoing game to discuss team tactics in private, it’s since developed into a communication tool with much broader appeal in particular with younger audiences.
(more…)Initially Jamboard was a piece of hardware, an interactive whiteboard, essentially a huge touchscreen on a stand that collaborators could log onto via a dedicated app. Since its inception in 2017, the Jamboard app now may also stand alone, i.e. collaborators may directly connect and work with each other without the hardware.
(more…)Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform to enable teams working together by means of a very pleasing visual interface. Miro focuses on real-time collaborative work on canvases with different templates: diagrams, mind maps, workflow board, etc. Each board is “infinite”, thus can keep lots of stuff in different forms (digital sticky notes, minutes, sketches, images, charts etc.).
(more…)Kunstmatrix is in fact a software bundle intending to support the entire virtual representation of practising artists; this includes the tools Art.Depot, Art.Spaces, Art.Office, and Art.Augmented.
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