I’m excited to be blog­ging about dig­i­tal art this semes­ter for Fine Arts D210. Lit­tle does my pro­fes­sor know that I already try to main­tain a reg­u­lar blog on my per­sonal web­site. Unfor­tu­nately, she won’t let me use that for this class so I’ll be cross­post­ing entries here andthere. I guess if any­thing I’ll get more expo­sure and even drive my own link juice :)

For my class­mates, I’m a senior Infor­mat­ics major focus­ing on cyber secu­rity and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions. I have no for­mal art back­ground. In fact, the last art class I took I failed (in 8th grade). Since then I’ve fallen in love with web design and con­sider myself well read on the sub­ject. As most of my stud­ies have been on what’s under the hood, I’ve spent my own time research­ing web trends that encour­age intu­itive interaction.
Last year, I headed the GameZombie.tv web team that won a Webby award, and also had my logo selected for the 2009 Lit­tle 500 races. 
When I think of dig­i­tal art, I don’t think of just a plain image that could be printed and hung on the wall. It should be “hands-on” and respon­sive since the dig­i­tal plat­form allows for that added depth. I’m most inspired by very inter­ac­tive web­sites usu­ally pow­ered by Flash and web­sites that are effec­tively sim­plis­tic. These are usu­ally pro­duced by mar­ket­ing com­pa­nies, design stu­dios, and indi­vid­ual design­ers. I tend to like very clean designs but also very grungy, dirty, graf­fi­tied looks. I also love typog­ra­phy and logos!
When I find the time, I love to read through the cou­ple hun­dred design blogs on Google Reader.Here’s where I got started and they have a down­load link to an OPML to directly import them all. Until next time–
“Cre­ativ­ity is allow­ing your­self to make mis­takes. Design is know­ing which ones to keep”
Scott Adams