Over the last few months, I started work on a personal project for myself which allowed me to fuse a couple of my passions together: concert posters and programming.
I have spent the last few years getting pulled into the world of concert posters and making amazing friends in the community that surrounds them. As new people getting interested in poster art, I noticed a few of them asking “Who is the artist?”. Sometimes you’ll hear the question while standing in the merch line while waiting for the option to purchase the artwork. Sometimes you’ll hear it online when the artwork gets posted. Most of the time the band’s social media account will post the picture of the poster on the day of the show with a link to the social media account of the artist. Sometimes you get an image of the artwork and no information about who the artist is.
The issue I set out to solve is identifying the artist that designed the artwork and a way to get more information about that artist. This issue exists for both people who are new to the poster collecting community and casual fans of art.
This Is Only The Beginning
There is still plenty of work left to do for this to be extremely useful. Currently, the machine learning model only has 24 artists that it is trained to identify. There are plenty of other artists that need to be included in the model. There are plans to release an app later in the year to showcase the work that has been done. In the next week though look for a post showing the model in action as well as more information about the technology behind it.
I need the community’s help to make this something even more impressive.
- What artist would you like to see added to the model? List of current artists can be found here
- What type of information do you think it would be useful to get once you submit the photo? (Right now one thought that comes to mind is if you take a picture of one of Sperry’s ladies on top of it telling you that it is a Chuck Sperry possibly have it tell you which lady it is)
- Where else could this be useful? (Maybe Collectionzz could use it for helping users to Tag your artwork to make it easier to look at art by the artist? Or Expresso beans could use it to help with search?)
Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
