08.23.24 Newsletter

Our weekly dispatch from the Experience Design Studio cooking up creative mischief at the crossroads of tech and imagination.

Anna Williams

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Sheridan Low

Aug 24, 2024

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Tech news, AI tools, and radical stuff worth your time!

🌪️ Turbo Charged 🌪️
Turbo, the latest upgrade to Runway Gen-3 Alpha, zips through video creation 7 times faster while keeping the same awesome quality—and it’s available on all Runway plans, including free trials for new users!
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☁️ If You Can Dream It ☁️
Dream Machine 1.5 has arrived — now with sharper text-to-video, smarter understanding of prompts, custom text rendering, and better image-to-video.
Start Generating

🪇 No Flux Given 🪇
Meet Flux, Krea's new generative model with endless styles, variations, and aspect ratios—and it’s free for everyone!
Get Creative

👯‍♀️ Twinning 👯‍♀️
Captions' AI Twin lets you create a digital twin that's always camera-ready, so you can quickly generate content without the hassle of setting up or filming—unless you make GRWM videos!
No Cap

🎲 Get My Good Angle 🎲
Stable Zero123 is a cutting-edge AI that excels at generating 3D objects by understanding how they should look from every angle.
Easy as 1-2-3

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🌟 Style Spotlight 🌟

Flat design is a minimalist design approach that emerged in the early 2010s as a response to the overly detailed and skeuomorphic styles that dominated digital interfaces. Characterized by its use of simple shapes, bright colors, and a focus on functionality, flat design strips away unnecessary textures, shadows, and gradients to create clean, crisp visuals. This style gained prominence with the release of Microsoft's Metro design language, which heavily influenced user interfaces across various platforms. Apple's transition to flat design with iOS 7 further popularized the trend. Designers like Jony Ive, who led Apple’s design revolution, and Luke Wroblewski, a champion of user-centered minimalism, embody this style perfectly. Today, flat design continues to be a dominant force in digital design, influencing everything from app interfaces to website layouts, and it has evolved into more nuanced forms, such as flat 2.0, which reintroduces subtle depth and shadows to enhance user experience while maintaining the clean aesthetics of the original flat design.

Prompt Specifics

When writing text prompts for any kind of AI generative art, there are keywords that can help you closer achieve the desired style or overall outcome. For creating Flat style images, here are some great keywords and seeds to try:

/imagine: flat design, minimalist, simple shapes, bright colors, clean lines, 2D, vector graphics, geometric, minimal shadows, bold typography, iconography, modern, user interface, minimal detail, smooth gradients, abstract, flat icons, digital illustration, clear layouts

seeds: 3332489763, 4202025009, 10089904