Afros Blog

A Showcase of African Digital Arts, Technology & Creatives

As their mission statement reminds, people of colour are often underrepresented in illustrations, lacking in the design process and often go unseen in visuals across the internet. 5Four saw the lack of diversity as an opportunity to create a free resource for everyone, a way to add diversity to online content by showcasing black people and people of colour in a myriad of tasks, including medical work.

An image compression tool. Developed by thatAfro This is a Simple and fast "Digital Image Compression" tool. At this point in time it processes an image instant using vue.js. I hope to include a multi upload in the distant future..

Book Dash gathers creative volunteers to create new, African storybooks in just one day that anyone can freely print, translate and distribute, and we source the funding to print hundreds and thousands of books to give to children through partner organisations.

A new major trend in design: 'invisible' branding. the magic of this Coke campaign from Publicis Italy comes from the optical illusion at its heart. Through the curve of that logo, and the perfect bottle-neck width of the 'Feel it' tagline, it does indeed feel like a bottle is there.