Max Beatty

After a sur­pris­ingly warm and pos­i­tive reac­tion to my art­work today in class from my fel­low D210 class­mates, I wanted to make an announce­ment about steal­ing my art­work in case any of them wanted a copy or wanted to use it else­where. I’ve uploaded every­thing so far into a Flickr set enti­tled “Dig­i­tal Art” and […]

The word on the tubes is that bokeh is quickly approach­ing as the next design craze like rounded cor­ners, reflect­ing logos, and diag­o­nal stripes. I found a nice tuto­r­ial from Abduzeedo on how to recre­ate the pho­tog­ra­phy effect in Photoshop.

“Use more than one dig­i­tized images to cre­ate a sin­gle com­po­si­tion that rep­re­sent­ing an emo­tional state, such as sad­ness, hap­pi­ness, embar­rass­ment, and ecstasy.” I chose frustration  

Today’s in-class exer­cise was to cre­ate two squares where one rep­re­sented hap­pi­ness and the other sad­ness. After every­one was done, we rotated around the class­room leav­ing a few sen­tences in an open Word doc­u­ment about our obser­va­tions. When we were done com­ment­ing on three or four other pieces, we turned the JPG and DOCX in […]

This week’s dig­i­tal art blog assign­ment is to, “find an art piece which is related to dig­i­tal com­pos­ite, and talk about it.” I went to my doo­dle album on Face­book and pulled a few of my old com­pos­ites I used to use on intro splash pages back when they were pop­u­lar for web­sites. This first […]