Iconic Visitations

Going through drawers of icons, I’m discovering interesting things. From the shadows of this vast archive of user experiences, shapes emerge. A glimpse of an edge, a flash of silhouette and suddenly it’s all there; the image, time, place, context and your connection to it all.

IMAGES & IDEAS

Images fire off synapses of memories like scents from past events. Reconnecting experiences whether long forgotten and thought lost or merely misplaced and temporarily out of view.

Reunion of friends

That image, once your constant companion, as common as your coffee, ubiquitous as Waldo, everywhere, then nowhere, a casualty of some incidental upgrade - is found and returned in a real way. Real as the velveteen rabbit.

Rehabilitated

Every image is dusted off, given a shave, ten dollars and a new suit. They're cleaning up rather well, don’t you agree?

the archive

Every icon is the favorite in the hoarders’ heap. There’s always more on the way. The next one we want is usually the one on the bottom underneath it all. Stay tuned.

invading your space

Like someone you met in a dream greeting you on the street. Images have become objects in the real world for your inspection.

Making it Real

Touch it, feel it, feel the weight, tap it on the table and hear the noise, drop it on your foot and feel the pain. Experience in reality now virtual objects from the past a present.

Icon Presents

Makes a great gift! That’s better than a GIF.

virtual releif

Physical incarnations of virtual experiences offer us a nice way to reconnect our divergent experiences, that of the virtual world and of the real world, Some find this therapeutic, as if reconnecting our virtual and physical selves that have been previously split and kept apart by a piece of glass.

A Solid Refresh

Larger, thicker metal, more three-dimensional.

Fans of my metal icons who have been with me on this journey a while will notice the progression of style from earlier works.

• First, was a rugged earthy phase that was a stark rebellion against the slick aesthetic of the virtual world.

• Then we explored the flat design, breaking imagery into layers, much as you would designing the same icons in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop to be used on a web site or an App.

This latest style is a blend of the previous styles while increasing the scale and macho effect from the metal. I have returned mainly to bare metal, distressed to being out what I love about the metal. To me, the character of the metal itself is far more interesting than any coatings. Still, I do like to experiment so, all is possible.

Skeumorphism?

What about the art with all those real objects? You know, the parody on skeuomorphism?” Those are always a lot of fun and bring rich metaphorical meaning into to the works. So, stay tuned.

Cheers!

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