zeitgeistbot.com was released. The website has won a few awards and has been featured in several online design galleries. The website became Awwwards’ Site of Day Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world. – many thanks, jon
Recently, jonmontenegro.com was released. The site received positive feedback for its alternative typographical visual solution. The website became Awwwards’ Site of Day Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world. The website was also featured in Siteinspire.net. SiteInspire is showcase […]
I have recently released an online, mobile interactive fine art gallery website, featuring selected work from artist Barrett N Smith. The website has been featured in besthtml5gallery
variousways.com is fortunate to be featured in siteinspire.net. About siteInspire: SiteInspire is showcase and CSS gallery featuring the best web design today, designed, developed. Curated by kulör – many thanks, jon
Kamon series artwork piece engraved in a bamboo iPhone 4 case. Designed by: Jon Montenegro Created by: Grove Kamon Series consist of Adobe Flash Lite interactive art pieces created specifically for cell phones. Based from traditional Japanese kamons the artwork is a result from a application written for cellphones that utilizes cell phone signals to […]
Who’s Happy Now?happyrain is an interactive art project created from using jquery,php, and social media information from twitter. The interactive piece is dynamically created from happy feelings that have been tweeted from people between specific times using twitter. The piece explores dynamic art creation using social media and how to display updated mood based information […]
These art pieces uses data and folksonomy as mediums to dynamically create art pieces based off Internet users, exploring ways of translating data into into interactive art pieces, to give a new perspective of what data is…or can be. The process involves using actionscript that frequently retrieves updated imagery based off abstract terms in which […]
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
Title: [Never grow accustomed; the brittle, often shimmering heat…] Date: 2003 Medium: Flash, Actionscript Size: 934px x 430px Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists. The art piece is a visual interpretation of a poem […]
This ongoing interactive and print art series originally started in 2005. Using Adobe Flash, as3 and a web camera (webcam) as a medium, the interactive piece tracks motions perceived by the webcam. The piece translates the motions and displays visual pieces in real time. The experimental art is an exploration into how we perceive objects […]
Flash AS3 Motion Detection Interface Experiment via webcam. We have been experimenting with Flash, AS3 to create an interface that uses a webcam to track motion or movement. A cursor tracks the motion and moves to toward the “motion” while interacting with the interface. Check out the motion tracking interface….yep, a webcam is needed.
In recent news, I have some of my visual and interactive design work showcased in another design magazine. This time it’s Practical Webdesign Magazine. In the December 2008 Issue183 in the .net/showcase/gallery section. It features about 4 screen shots of some of my work and a written piece which states… “Jon Montenegro URL www.jonjon.tv Company […]
ABOUT My name is Jon and I am an user experience creative and digital artist. I conduct usability studies and research, design and build interactive experiences. In my spare time, I create digital art for a variety of displays including mobile devices. My artwork involves folksonomy art, mobile art, motion tracking, social media taxonomy, […]
When I first heard about the development of the Helvetica Film, I could not resist but donate to the production of the film. I can’t help but get excited over this project and would like to see this concept become reality… So if you have not already, donate now. You can get some lovely Helvetica […]
Variousways is proud to be selected to be featured in TASCHEN’s book “WEB DESIGN: STUDIOS”. “This book, in its compact format, displays 90 of the most prominent interactive studios worldwide.” editor: Julius Wiedemann. – many thanks, jon
Cellphone art, created by cellphones. This ongoing interactive and print art series originally started in 2004, and created for mobile phones and/or PDA devices. The interactive art piece utilizes Adobe’s Flashlite technology to obtain a persons cellphone signal as a medium. These cellphone signals are then used by a Flash based (AI) to interpret and create a […]
Created circa 2003, The Red Day project is an explorative minimal art piece for mobile devices. The art piece is visually ever changing and also serves as a functional time piece. By using bars of red, varying hues and transparency, the piece dynamically changes according to the time of day. People can quickly look at the art piece […]
Early experimental interactive art piece. My attempt in exploring submersive enviromental experience with flash and 3D spines. Title: Kite Date: 2001 Medium: Flash, Actionscript Size: variable