Web Designer Artist Post- Mike Kus

Mike Kus is a designer from the UK who specializes in WEB/UI design, graphic design, branding, illustration, and photography. He has a worldwide client roster and his work is regularly featured in design related publications. He has been working in the creative industries for 15 years. He is known for creating web designs that seamlessly marries form and function. His work has been featured in many design books and magazines and he regularly speaks at design and web conferences across the world. He has designed works for the likes of twitter, Microsoft, berocca and mailchimp and many more. He really likes to take pictures and share them on instagram. 

https://twitter.com/mikekus

Going through Mike's work is really interesting because he has such a broad range of what he does. Obviously if he is designing a website for another company he has to do what they tell him to do but his work has some sort of consistency. Most of the websites he designs he illustrates by hand the imagery so that there is a handmade aesthetic to it. It seems like he likes to use lots of illustrations and images in his work and has a eye-catching yet simple feel to them. One site he even does a "two color per page" theme where he has a foreground color and a background color. I really enjoy this because it is easy for the eye to navigate around the page. 

Mike even did some of his own little illustrations for the Olympics in 2012 in London. He played with the idea of likening the athletes abilities to that of animals with legendary abilities in the same area. I thought this was really neat because he used the same type of hand made illustrations that you see throughout his websites. I really like his work because it is very colorful and artsy yet it is very simple and easy to look at. Even his website is artsy and fun but easy to navigate. He definitely has a style which he sticks to which is using illustrations and color in a simple manner. I think this style might not be as effective if someone were trying to make a web design for a serious company or something that shouldn't be so artsy. But for my interest and for what I am looking into, I really admire his work and his style.

Mike Kus Website

Bowie Portrait

Logo

Music Sketch

Portraits

Project 1

Artist Post- Pascal Dombis

Pascal Dombis

     Pascal Dombis is a digital artist who uses computers and algorithms to produce a lot of repetition of simple processes. He has been doing this for twenty years and uses geometrical or typographical sign. Dombis lives and works in Paris and earned his engineering degree from Insa University in Lyon. He started using computers in 1987 at Tufts University where he took computer art classes. He is noted for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules. Dombis originally worked with simple rules like drawing a straight like. Then he used digital tools to make visual forms appear, but still by using these simple rules. He does not have a structure made up in his mind in advance, he uses simple rules and lets them go through a series of interactions. 

RightRong, 2007-2012

Géométries Irrationnelles, 2008 / Galerie Municipale, Vitry sur seine, FR

Mixed_Grill(e), 2014

Eurasia, 2012

    Pascal Dombis uses lines and shapes and words and repeats them many times and puts them in a interesting way. I really like the way he uses line because it makes you want to continue to look at his images. Sometimes I feel like artists use way too much and can go overboard when making an image but I really like his work because he does go overboard. But the way he does too much makes it interesting and he does it in a way that is not "too much". Most of his works he uses many layers to make it look like it is 3D. I have no idea how he does this but it is very interesting. The video I have above is of a floor that he put thousands of layers of words and phrases and it looks 3D. The person in the video touches the floor to show you it is not 3D but really one image.


    I think it is amazing how he can trick your eye just by putting multiple layers of one graphic together. I feel like if you really look at his work there is no true composition, but as a whole there is definitely a great composition. I feel like because he uses so many layers, he keeps your eye into his artworks. It is probably impossible to see every little thing in his work but it is cool to try to look at all of the different layers. He also has many deep meanings to his work and why he does certain things. The only one that I found a meaning for was the first image I have of his called RightRong. In the image it shows over and over again the words "I am right, you are wrong". He says he did this to try to show that no one is ever truly right or wrong. I'm sure there is meaning to all of his art and it would be interesting to know what each thing means. I also think knowing that his work has meaning just makes it that much better. 

Pascal Dombis Website