Awesome AI for Art & Design

An awesome list of AI for art and design - resources, and popular datasets and how we may apply computer vision tasks to art and design.

Contents

• Computer Vision Tasks
• Community
• Datasets
  • Art data
  • Design data

Computer Vision Tasks

Here are some examples of how computer vision tasks can be applied to real world applications in art and design:

Community

Here is a list of websites and projects that use AI for art and design:

• Magenta - An open source research project exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process.
• Artists and Machine Intelligence - A program at Google that brings artists and engineers together to realize projects using Machine Intelligence.
• Google Arts & Culture - A non-profit initiative to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online, accessible to anyone anywhere. It has cool interative experiments, virtual museums, art collections and more.
• RunwayML - Machine learning for creators where you can learn and and share your projects.
• AI & the Future of UX - A collection of blog posts about AI and its impact on the future of UX.

Data

I'm including data that is ready for ML training as well as sources with free images.

Art data

• WikiArt: repo | Kaggle | paperswithcode
• Best Artworks of All Time - A collection of artwork from the best 50 artists.
• Art Images: Drawing/Painting/Sculptures/Engravings - Five types of artwork separated into training and validation datasets.
• Museum of Modern Art Collection - A collection of 72,706 artworks from 20,956 artists.
• Overwatch Heroes Recognition - 2,291 images of Overwatch heroes with vibrant colors. Great for using as style image in neural network style transfer.
• Chinese Fine Art - A small collection of a few hundreds of Chinese style paintings, drawings, watercolors, graphics and iconography.
• Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting Dataset - 2,192 high-quality traditional Chinese landscape paintings (中国山水画) sized at 512x512. Paper proposes Sketch-And-Paint GAN (SAPGAN), which generates Chinese landscape paintings without conditional input.

Museums with Free images

• The Art Institute of Chicago - 5000 high res images.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Over 400,000 artworks from around the world, near half of which are open access of unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use. Go to their website and click on "Open Access Artworkds".
• The British Museum - Near 2 million free images (article | museum).
• Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum - Over 700,000 paintings online copyright free (article | Museum).

Design data

• Rico - A collection of datasets for mobile app UI along with a reasearch paper.
• Common Mobile/Web App Icons - Kaggle datasets of icons scraped from the Noun Project.
• Icons-50 - Kaggle dataset of 10,000 icons in 50 classes.
• The noun project - A website where you can search through 2 million curated icons. It doesn't have a dataset ready for ML training but you can either download individual icons for free or purchase the icons.