Tag Archives: Inspiration

Get your daily design inspiration in the New Tab of your Browser with this Google Chrome Plugin!

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Yanko Design’s articles can now be found on the News Veranda extension for Google Chrome. Consisting of dozens of other design + creative publications, the News Veranda extension gives you a quick bird’s eye overview of the creative world and the design industry, right in your blank new tab!

The extension turns your otherwise blank new-tab experience into a creative newspaper, offering you the latest industrial, graphic, architecture, UX, and transportation design articles along with creative editorials. Clicking on the thumbnail will redirect you to the relevant website, or you can even save articles to be read later. If you just want to perform google searches (as one does in a new tab), a search bar at the top of the News Veranda page lets you continue using it like you normally would.

The tab comes designed by Veranda Color, a website which lets you build, customize, and explore color palettes for your creative projects and inspirational moodboards.

Earlier this month, Yanko Design and News Veranda partnered to bring Industrial, Architecture, and Transportation design articles to the new tab’s mix. The extension is currently available on the Chrome Web Store for desktops and laptops, which means it works with Google Chrome, Brave, and even Microsoft Edge! Oh yes, and it has Dark Mode too!

Click here to visit the News Veranda extension page and add it to your Desktop/Laptop browser!

Click here to visit the News Veranda extension page and add it to your Desktop/Laptop browser!

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Pantone’s $15 rainbow card turns your smartphone camera into a highly accurate Color-Picker

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The smartphone camera is a great tool for capturing photos of things you like. It could be as direct as photos of friends, family, animals, landscapes, but it could also be photos of things that inspire you. Pantone’s latest product wants to extend your smartphone’s ability to capture items of inspiration by allowing it to turn into a real-life eye-dropper tool that can pick and identify colors with incredible, Pantone-backed accuracy!

Meet the Color Match Card… an innocuous-looking card with a grid of colored swatches and a hollow cutout in the middle. All you do is place the card on an object who’s color you want to scan and point your camera at it. The Pantone Connect app does the rest, automatically analyzing the color within the hollow cutout and giving you matching Pantone color values that you can either document or save within the Pantone Connect app or even send directly to a palette that you can access using Adobe’s suite of creative tools. The tech behind the Color Match card is pretty simple. The colorful swatches (and the tracking markers around it) help the Pantone app calibrate the way it captures colors, allowing you to accurately grab hues in all sorts of lighting conditions with great accuracy. The color swatches help the Pantone app understand what sort of lighting (warm, cool, or neutral) you’re in and white-balance the image on its own as a calibration measure. The app then scans the hue within the cutout at the center of the card, matching it with Pantone’s vast color library to give you a list of Pantone values you can easily use for your next project!

Designer: Pantone

Infinitely incredible!

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Infiniti is always surprising us with features we can’t even see! And let me tell you this, the Infiniti Q Inspiration is doing exactly that – hiding the world’s first ever production ready four-cylinder variable compression ratio engine under the hood of what can easily be seen as a futuristic concept. It may look like a futuristic concept, and it should because they have just entered the future with the Q Inspiration.

Coming complete with an AI/semi-autonomous feature, the Infiniti Q Inspiration has a ProPilot assistant who helps with menial tasks like sitting in traffic or parking. So it’s super smart and super-efficient, it’s also super attractive. The Q Inspiration is inspirational – the rear of this vehicle just oozes a type of class rarely seen with futuristic cars, it’s keeping the mix of curvaceous and organic shape while the lights bring a more futuristic dynamic to tie it all together. This is a gorgeous car, and one can only hope it gets the recognition it most certainly deserves.

Designer: Infiniti

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Kellie Pickler Talks about her Inspirations

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The songstress known as Kellie Pickler didn’t just get up one day and become a living legend. It was a whole lengthy process she had to undergo before she reached her current status as a country...