I am calling my new design products “A.Icons”, a fun play on words that includes the acronym A.I., adding “-cons” at the end to make it one phrase. I stumbled upon the term’s usage in my recent work, HibbitsDesign – Project Visual ID which I have added to my portfolio and am describing in this post. When a friend and colleague (now a client), Paul Hibbits approached me to create
This was sparked, as many ideas often are, from a random Instagram post, and the words have stuck. ‘Artistic Intelligence‘. Why is this even a new term to me? I suppose for the past year everyone has been focussed so much on the other ‘AI’, that any non-LLM-based tools are passé. But as someone actively pursuing a working relationship with the creative powerhouse of ‘artificial intelligence’, I must lean into
The following is from a recent post I made on Linkedin and wanted to copy it here. The more I experiment with AI tools for visual communication, the more I recommit a personal pledge to put #humansfirst in my own creation and design projects. Balancing client needs with generative AI features alongside Procreate (my fav drawing app on the iPad) hand drawing has resulted in some great outcomes. Procreate’s recent
Noun Project is building a global visual language that unites us. The Noun Project Visual language and communications are one of my areas of expertise. I have been creatively driven my whole life, drawing from an early age and integrating visual practice into my work in various ways. I tend to use arts-based practices in my approach to teaching, facilitating activities like gallery walks, which involve looking at and discussing
I have been documenting the growth of my sunflowers through images this year and thought it would be cool to include the pictures in an interactive timeline so you could see the relative time between them. My photos started on March 31, 2024, but the lineage of the seeds I planted goes back to 2012, and I also wanted to include some images from then. Displaying images over time can
A while back (in 2017), I visited a good buddy, and as a memento, I drew this little image and used it as a thank you card. In this image, I wanted to capture many of the elements that I fondly remembered from my visit: seeing the full moon rising over the forest, inoculating logs with mushroom spores, playing with my buddy’s synthesizer collection, his favourite pet dog, the bee
Coming up in two weeks is a free and open microcourse in which my co-teacher and I will explore making images using A.I. specifically for instruction. Thanks in advance to BCCampus for hosting this course. REGISTER HERE: FLO MicroCourse: Artificial Intelligence Images in the Classroom. I’ve had a chance to learn more about A.I. image generation while researching for this course, and as an artist, I have to say my
A recent project developing a micro-course for BCcampus was inspired by many of the inquiries I had working in post-secondary education from instructors wanting to share and have their students collaborate with multimedia such as images, audio and video online. Teaching and learning online have become more essential than ever. However, using media as part of a lesson or activity is not always as simple as in a face-to-face situation,
While at Thompson Rivers University in 2021-2022, I created many online resources, videos, and workshops to support instructors’ use of technology and media. Near and dear to my heart are the activities I developed for “Teaching Visually” and “Visualize This,” a series of resources using drawing paired with different technologies to create, explain, and teach. I have used many drawing apps on various platforms, but Procreate has been one of
Hi, I’m Jason Toal, Creative Learning Designer, Educational Technologist, and Artist.