Category: Creative Arts

This category covers music, art, photography, dance and other forms of artistry that people use to express them selves creatively. New businesses show off what they do to help, inspire and develop creativity.

Dinner Table Drawings

Although meant for kids, we know everyone will get a kick out of using the Doodle Table Cloth. In Ontario there is a franchise called Jack Astors, they let you draw on your paper covered table while you have dinner with friends. There’s been countless times when dinner talk starts to peter out, but luckily a handy crayon would be near by to draw away until conversation starts back up for our team. Now kids love to do this, but designers, developers and pretty much anyone can bring the opportunity to draw stuff in the dining room home with the Doodle Table Cloth…. Read More…

VSCO Cam: A Beautifully Simple Camera App

Is there really a need for another camera app for your iPhone or iPod Touch? We come across many new apps that make photo sharing easier and implementation of photo filtering even more immersive, but not all of them we think are worth sharing. The one’s we do share, we ultimately find have either great user experience design or solve a great need for us…. Read More…

Custom Plush Toys From Drawing

When a child comes home from school or as summer dawns and kids all over the world start to clean out there desks their bound to bring back sheets and sheets of drawings that they are proud of and parents will adore. They’ll get pinned to kitchen refrigerators, framed or shared with family and friends, but what else could be done with these little Rembrandt designs? Child’s Own Studio is taking these custom creations and creating custom stuffed plush toys…. Read More…

Give Your Photos a DSLR Look With AfterFocus

Having a smartphone has renewed my interest in improving my photos through various apps on the Play Store. It doesn’t matter that my phone’s camera doesn’t have the highest specs; the apps were good enough to hide that fact. I’ve also tried just about every photography app that catches my attention,… Read More…

Stop Motion LEGO Super Hero App

We’ve looked at quite a few stop motion and iPhone video production accessories over the last little while and they have all been stunning products to help make stunning movies. But what about movies themselves, what if you’re tired of waiting for The Dark Knight Rises to come to theatres and wanted to make your version right now? The marketing geniuses at LEGO have partnered up with Warner Brothers Consumer Products/DC Entertainment to bring us a LEGO DC Super Heroes Movie Maker App…. Read More…

PhonoLapse chops apart recordings to create audio timelapses

Timelapses may be standard fare for nature documentarians and student filmmakers with a predilection for Koyaanisqatsi. But instead of capturing a sequence of images, PhonoLapse, a new PC/Mac freeware by sound designer Andrew Spitz, makes timelapses of recorded sound.It’s a bit strange because in a sense, all digitally… Read More…