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One of my art pieces as been selected as one of the 12 winning works in the 5th annual ArtPop Billboard Competition presented by ArtPop Street Gallery, Adams Outdoor Advertising, Pocono Arts Council, ArtsQuest, and Kutztown University.
The winning artists, selected via a juried competition, will have their work displayed on Adams Outdoor Advertising billboards on major thoroughfares in the region from the week of Jan. 7 through the end of Dec. 2019.
The augmented reality business cards were created for Variousways. A user scans a qr-code on the business card with their iphone or android mobile device and then can see the augmented-reality object(s).
Three.js was used to create the 3-D object and lighting enviroment along with Ar.js for the augmented-reality. Sandbox experiments were initially created using the three.js editor
The augmented reality demo can be seen at: here
One of my websites have been included in the typography textbook – Exploring Typography – 2nd edition by Tova Rabinowitz Deer.
Showcasing the latest in best practices across print and digital media, EXPLORING TYPOGRAPHY, 2e provides a well-researched, authoritative introduction to typography that explores the varied uses of type in visual communications.
One of my websites have been included in the Web Designer’s Idea Book, vol 4 by Patrick McNeil.
“Expert Patrick McNeil, author of the popular Web Designer’s Idea Book series, is back with all new examples of today’s best website design. Featuring more than 650 examples of the latest trends, this fourth volume of The Web Designer’s Idea Book is overflowing with visual inspiration.” View more at Web Designer’s Idea Book, vol 4 at Amazon
One of my interactive artwork pieces has been selected to be included in ANIMATE, a animated art show on exhibition now at AIGA Space Gallery in Philadelphia.
Coinciding with Philly Tech Week, SPACE is covered with QR codes for a new kind of gallery experience!
Join us tonight for the Opening Reception at SPACE from 6-9pm.
Opening Reception
First Friday | April 4, 6–9pm
Running through April 30
I created an interactive social media art piece created with Google DART for the Google DevArt. Art made with code. Project.
The piece uses social media information from twitter to create art. The art piece is dynamically created from positive/happy feelings that have been tweeted from people between specific times. The piece explores social media as a medium, user interactivity, collaboration and displaying mood based information as an art form.
People and their emotional content become the medium for the art.
The result of the art piece is ever changing and may be a change in attitude on the part of the audience that results from the medium of social media itself.
I am thankful to have recently won a AIGA Philadelphia Design Award.
AIGA:“Our renowned panel of judges have spoken. The vast array of submissions has been narrowed down to the top 100,
representing the best talent Philadelphia has to offer.”
One of my works has been featured in Mobile Web Designers Idea Book, Volume 1
The 2014 book “The Mobile Web Designer’s Idea Book will look at trends, styles, themes and patterns in mobile web design. Much like the author’s other Idea Books, the core focus will be on providing inspiration and analyzing trends and patterns. Note that the primary focus will be on the mobile web, but the author will devote a full section to mobile applications. The end result will be a comprehensive inspiration tool focused on all aspects of mobile web design.”
“Happy Rain” – Digital Art work seen at Discover Design @ Le Meridien, DesignPhiladelphia Festival. More information can be viewed at www.gabyheit.com.
With Google Glass coming out soon, I’m sure other developers and designers are curious about best practices. Google has suggested following the approved standard card design and templates. Below are some brief specs for Card regions.
Main Content
The main text content of the card is in Roboto Thin and is bounded by padding.
Glass dynamically resizes the font size based on the amount of content.
Full-bleed image
Images work best when full-bleed and do not require the 40px of padding that text requires.
Footer
The footer shows supplementary information about the card, such as the source of the card or a timestamp. Footer text is usually 26 pixels, Roboto Light, white (#ffffff) in color, and centered.
Status bar
The status bar has 3 states. Slider shows the current location in a set of cards. Progress or grace period shows progress or time to cancel an action. Candy cane animates in a loop while processing.
Left image or column
Left image or columns require modifications to padding and text content. See the left image and column templates for the complete grid.
Padding
Timeline cards have 40 pixels of padding on all sides for the text content. This allows most people to see your content clearly.
I have created a simple Photoshop template (for app development) which you can download below.
Download a Google Glass Photoshop Template
Recently won an AVA Digital Award.
“AVA Awards is an international competition that recognizes outstanding work by creative professionals involved in the concept, direction, design and production of media that is part of the evolution of digital communication. Work ranges from audio and video production- to developing websites that present interactive components such as video, animation, blogs, and podcasts- to interactive social media sites- to other forms of user-generated communication.”
Some of my work has been featured in The Web Designer’s Idea Book, Volume 3
The 2013 book “Helps designers keep up with the latest web design trends *Features more than 600 examples of successful website designs *From Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com Featuring more than 600 examples, this guide offers visual inspiration to web designers to help them see what others have done and how they can adapt those ideas to their own needs. This third volume in the popular Web Designer’s Idea Book series offers the latest in today’s themes, styles and trends in web design.”
happyrain – a live interactive twitter art piece has been selected to be displayed at AIGA Space Gallery in Philadelphia starting on First Friday, June 1st thru 30th, First Friday Reception: June 1st, 6-8:30 pm.
Featuring artists: Allan Espiritu, Colette Gaiter, Zofia Hausman, E. Sherman Hayman, Gaby Heit, Boots Levinson, Katie Dillon Low, David Macomber, Kari Marton-Rollins, Jon Montenegro, Paula Searing and Brian O’Neill, Jonathan Weary, Matt Zigler.
happyrain – interactive twitter art piece has been displayed at the “Message & Medium” at PhilaMOCA opening.
The show “Message & Medium” had its opening at PhilaMOCA on Thursday, March 1. Its name is taken from the famous assertion by Marshall McLuhan that “the medium is the message.” In this exhibit, assembled by artist and curator Gaby Heit, some 20 artists display work, which is in some way based in textual elements.
In contemporary society we are inundated with images from art to ads and everything in between. More often than not, especially within advertisements, text also plays a crucial role in directing our thought process. Language is often the most literal factor, displaying information, which would otherwise be lost through images or abstractions: dates, times, locations or names for instance. The art in “Message & Medium” plays off the ubiquity of text and language in popular culture.
Jon Montenegro’s “happyrain” is an interactive piece, which stems from the world of social media. A monitor refreshes every few minutes with live feeds from Twitter, turning the messages sideways so it appears that they are raining downward. The data received is specifically content that deals with Tweets expressing excitement or happiness. As the viewer examines the raining words, the happiness is vicariously delivered to the audience in an effort to spread joy or positivity. Curiously enough, the night of the opening coincided with Justin Bieber’s birthday, so many of the messages were barely legible birthday shout outs to the teen pop star.
The original project was called “Red Day”, created circa 2003, using Adobe Flash/Flashlite for Series 60 devices and pocketPC devices.
“2011 is coming to an end and with it, we proudly present to you the new Awwwards book. Through its pages you will find the websites that mark nowadays’ trends in web design, the ones that represent today’s web standards (HTML5, CSS, jQuery…), and the finest web design studios and agencies of the year.”
“happy rain” – A social media art piece has been blogged by “Chantal Eder”
Artists Use Tweets to Create Groundbreaking Art
“Everyday thousands of people are tweeting their thoughts, ideas and expressions; throwing them out into the world wide web.
Digital media artists are an innovative group that wait patiently, always ready to grab your words and turn them into art! Some are using your 140 characters and turning them into animations, some are printing them right onto the road and others are taking your ideas and transforming them into paintings, pictures and robot shows.”
