Sears

One of the drawings I did for 1843 magazine (The Economist’s sister magazine). The original home-shopping frenzy: The Sears, Roebuck catalogue was first published a century ago. By 1908 it featured more than 100,000 items, from bicycles to sewing machines. Shoppers could even buy flat-pack houses.

Popular Science

A collection of spot illustrations for Popular Science’s “Tales from the Field” section. Mars beer, Livermore’s centennial light bulb, Benjamin Button jellyfish, repurposed space rover, Neanderthal genes in us, trees as natural databases.

Pleathure

Soviet school kids for Pleathure.

Pretty much all I want in life…

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….is to make things and then have other people look at those things and be like "woah, cool."

I tweeted this the other day and it seemed to strike a chord with a lot of people so here I am, expanding on it.

First off, let’s note that both halves of that tweet are super important. Having other people look at the stuff I make is not just about getting a bit of feedback or the endorphin hit of notifications and likes.

Nope, for me, the audience experience is...

How does it feel to make generative art?

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I’ve recently been having a strong sensation that I am finding generative art, rather than creating it. Even so, when I asked other generative artists how the process feels to them, I expected that most would say it mostly feels like creation.

Generative artists - does it feel more like you are creating the art or finding it?

I was completely wrong! In fact, only a handful of people who replied felt that way. Most said either that the feeling tends more towards discovery, or that...

dERIVATIVE – The Making of the Film

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Made of shapes, colours and a bit of story, dERIVATIVE is a short film I’ve directed for a wonderful Mixpoint Studio in Prague. It follows through a row of visual transformations and is likely to be more a work of motion design than classical CG animation. The project was a months-long effort and this time I had a chance to personally craft every single pixel of the final film – what has really helped me is a compositing-centered workflow which I’d like to talk about in this tutorial. 

It’s not uncommon among the film and animation 3D artists to overlook...

Curved Line Jellyfish

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The idea

My plan was to create a circle of points each connected to the one opposite by a curved line. Each point would also have an “anchor point” which defines the shape of the curve. I imagined the anchors would be slightly outside the main circle of points, and offset by around -30 to 30 degrees.

I had pictured something quite bold, graphical and geometric but I ended with gradients and floatiness.

The first thing I did is code up the idea exactly as described above.

The first image is the result...

We now ship also from the USA

Since I started manufacturing and selling nixie tubes and clocks, our customers from the USA formed the single biggest market for us. I remember years where we shipped 50% of our clocks to the USA. Today, I am excited to announce an improvement for our US customers – cooperation with Nicholas Stock from California. Nick will ship our clocks to US customers and also do some warranty and repair services. This change means faster delivery, no import process, lower risk of damaging the package and lower overall cost of the delivery.

So, who is Nick? If you are a member...

First sub-assembly – support of the stem – Project H #10

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It’s time to finish the development of the first parts of the H tube – sub-assembly of the stem and ceramic rods. I designed this connection to be done using ceramics adhesive and it seems it will work. It is vacuum safe and it will provide enough support for the rest of the internal system of our nixie tube.

Project update – Project H #9

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A bit longer video – I wanted to give you an update on progress in: 1:18 – upgrade of the glassworking equipment 5:28 – residual stress in the glass after sealing 7:25 – solder glass testing 11:20 – nitrogen purging setup 15:29 – connecting wires insulation 20:17 – anode cup manufacture 24:52 – ceramic parts.