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I chose as my artist John Van Fleet. I discovered this artist in Durwin Talon's book PANEL DISCUSSIONS. Van Fleet studied Graphic Design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After the advent of the Macintosh computer Van Fleet forsaw the device replacing all graphic designers and decided to pursue a career in illustration. He started with editorial and technical illustrations but his real passion was for storytelling. He then broke into the realm of comics starting with Marvel then onto DC and others. He developed a process some dubbed as Xerography, where by transfering a photocopied picture to bristol board than painted over with color held by heavy blacks. Van Fleet unveiled this technique in SHADOWS FALL a six issue limited series produced for DC Vertigo. Other works include the X FILES, BATMAN, TYPHOID MARY, and many other titles in the comic world. You can see examples of his work on his wonderfully imaginative web www.johnvanfleet.com

I chose to do Banksy as my artist to research. He lives in Britain and is known mainly as a street artist, though he does do art with all different types of media. Some of the digital work he has done follows his trend of remaking other art with little changes and sneaking his fake copies into stores and galleries. The one I am talking about is the remake of the Paris Hilton cd he did with another of my favorite artists Danger Mouse. They remixed the cd and changed the album art, then made copies and put them into stores where people unknowingly bought them as the real thing. My favorite work by him is not digital, however, it is his street art. I like his work that is on different planes, meaning part of it is on a wall and part of it might be on the ground in front of the wall (one example being a line he drew around a city street leading up to a policeman he painted on the wall he made to look like drew the line). His work along with many other street artists have influenced my digital art because I like making stencils and things like that, but then along with putting it on the street I like to scan them in and incorporate them into a digital piece. Making them digital also means you can print them onto sticker paper and put them up wherever you want. Here is the link to his home page where most of his work can be seen>> http://www.banksy.co.uk

I chooooooooooose, Brian Michael Bendis. Due to the fact Im developing a theme this semester, I have come up with a comic book writer, for whimsical blog.

Bendis was born August 18, 1967 and is an American comic book writer and all round artist. He’s also won five Eisner Awards and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over seven years, Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic sales chart. He started out, of course at the bottom where most artists tend to begin, working on an independent comic which never truly took flight. Where he became truly recognized was when he started work on “The Amazing Spiderman.� He is also known for his work on Daredevil, Alias/The Pulse, Avengers/New Avengers, and Mighty Avengers.
((for all of you Non-nerds out there, these are relatively old and regardlessly BIG titles. But good on you. Y’probably date more.))

http://www.alphaflight.net/news_archives/new_avengers_16.jpg

This is an Image by Bendis. For the New Avengers cover if memory serves me right. One of the reasons I like this is because of the dynamic motion of drama. The blast of energy coming out of The red figure to the right automatically energizes the piece. It reflects light to tie in a source for the rest of the characters also in the piece. Bendis will draw a picture, ink it, scan it, then color it in the computer till its ready for the masses of people who lack plans on Saturday night. Who, in turn, will then delve into the tiny universe where he will play god to.
The color palate also works well to keep you attention contained. Note the intertwining triangles of Red and Black that the corrosponding characters use. It’s a well contained piece, that produces a lot of visual energy. That is why I specifically like this it. That and I need to study for this years Halloween costume. And I have my suit choice narrowed down to the Yellow guy in front, Captain America, and Spiderwoman in the back. (Wish me luck)
Bendis most definitely will influence my work if he already has not. Not only does he animate old characters freshly and breathes a new uniqueness into them. But He also writes the narrative for many of his stories. In his narratives, he takes all the old rules and slants them so that the reader is forced into revamping the way s/he viewed the previous universe. It’s all very satirical, and I’m a bit of a satirical person. So,… yes. I feel he will probably inspire me somehow.

PLACES TO FIND BENDIS!!!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ublib.buffalo.edu/lml/comics/pages/images/powers.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ublib.buffalo.edu/lml/comics/pages/powers.html&h=762&w=500&sz=170&hl=en&start=18&um=1&tbnid=Loo9VMeycsenqM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBrian%2BMichael%2BBendis%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bendis_bm/bendis_bm_borderland.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lambiek.net/artists/b/bendis_brian_m.htm&h=341&w=430&sz=29&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=BqCHv5LA-T_r4M:&tbnh=100&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbrian%2Bmichael%2Bbendis%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

AND this ones in French!!!
http://www.comicsvf.com/scans/vf/marvelfrance/100marvel/daredevil/12.jpg

My name: Amber Szerpicki

My artist’s name: Clarissa Tossin

Background on the artist: Clarissa Tossin was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Tossin runs her own “one-woman� design studio based in Sao Paulo, Brazil (est. 2002) but studies in as a graduate student in Los Angeles at the California Institute of Arts. She explores the creative possibilities of graphic design mainly through beautiful and complex vector art, sometimes integrating the use of motion graphics. She also associates with other independent artists, musicians, programmers, and fashion designers in an effort to create a fusion between the individual and collective approach to art. Past clients include Vogue Brazil, MTV Brazil, MTV Latina, Bizarre Records, Sao Paulo Fashion Week, and Galeria Vermelho.

Background/description of the work: Tossin’s technique is to make vague sketches of ideas and then do most of her rough work on the computer. She chooses software based on the work she is doing, but her favorites are Illustrator, Photoshop, FreeHand, Fontographer, and Flash. She sticks with Mac laptops to do most of her work. Her works encompass complex mixtures of natural and abstract elements. She often uses flat shapes and harmonious color. She says she gets her inspiration from daily life. She likes to work with different types of projects and materials and sees her work as constantly evolving.

One of my favorite pieces by Clarisson Tossin is called, “CLUBE BRAHMA�. It is a vector illustration full of vibrant color and movement. I think what draws me to is most is the fluidity of the lines and motion within the piece. It seems like it could almost be Japanese in influence. The color palette is very appealing; she bases in on two sets of complementary colors. The work is complex, full of references to the natural world, but also has abstraction, line, rhythm, balance and pattern. All of the basic elements of art are in play here. This work can be viewed at: http://www.a-linha.org/?id=99

Other favorites are:
“Sky_Boxes� http://www.a-linha.org/?id=56
“Tree: Spring.Summer.Fall.Winter.� http://www.a-linha.org/?id=66&subid=41
Her work inspires me to experiment more with the potential Adobe Illustrator has to offer. In my current series, I am working a lot with Illustrator at the beginning of the process and finishing the image with Photoshop. In the future, I might be more inclined to try completing the entire piece with Illustrator.

The artist I chose that inspires me is Oliver Wasow. Born in 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, he received a BA in Photography from Hunter College in 1982. He now teaches Digital Imaging and Photo Critique. He teaches at The Bard College in their Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts for photography. He also teaches at The School of Visual Arts in their graduate program in photography related media and their undergraduate photography program. Oliver is currently represented by Janet Borden Gallery in NYC. He has had many one person exhibits and has been included in a number of national and international group shows. Today he lives in NYC with his wife Dana Hoey, who is also an artist, and their two kids. Wasow is in Chapter one in the Digital Art book by Christiane Paul. This is the Chapter on digital technologies as a tool. I would say his category is Digital Imaging with Photography and Print. To create his images, he subjects pieces of real world photos to distortive elements and then puts them together to form seamless unified images. These images are, many times, like nothing you would never see in the natural world. At the same time it seems like a believable reality that might exist in some unknown place. He is interested in the contradictory forces like technology and nature, past and future, painting and photography, and of course fiction and reality. I really like the image of Oliver’s on page 44 in our Digital Art book. In the book it says it’s called Untitled #339 but on his website it says the name is Cape Code, Massachusetts. I’m not sure if that’s just where part of the picture was taken place, or if he named it since our book was made. The image is a detailed landscape of what I believe is the edge of the ocean with a parachute on the beach and a parachutist in the air. I like this Image of his so much because I love how it is so unified. You really can’t tell that it is more than one image put together to form a single seamless one. I also like how he distorted the image, it almost makes it seem like it could be a painting. Wasow might influence the way I put multiple images together. Also, I like the way his pictures seem like they could be painted on a canvas instead of digital. It’s a cool way to distort images that I might try to do in future projects.
Artist Links:
www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=529
www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty.php
www.oliverwasow.com

1.Megan Sorenson
2.Kenneth Feingold
3. Born in1952 in Pittsburg, PA. He currently work and lives in New York City. He received a BFA in 1974 and an MFA in 1976 from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia CA. He has been in numerous exhibitions across the work. His montages are created using film that evokes both travel photography and social science documentaries. Theses videos explore relationships between “iterable� qualities of Language. (Repeated signs and how media assembles certain kinds of repeatable images to make narratives)
4. He is a contemporary artist. Most of his works include both physical art and digital art. They work together. Almost all of his work that I have seen uses human figure/puppets/dolls etc. He places human parts in places you wouldn’t usually see. The experience is ironic and creepy at the same time.
5. Ch. 3 pg.146 artificial intelligence and intelligent agent
6.The work that really catches my eye is titled “ Sinking Feeling� done in 2001 as an installation piece. The reason I like this work is because it reminds me of the rumi poem sculpture I did last semester. I am really drawn to his work because he says things in a way that makes you think. I like that! Here is a link to a photo of it!
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424281426/423775681/ken-feingold-sinking-feeling-detail.html
7. His work could influence me by experimenting with projectors with interactive media with sculpture.
8. 3 links of his work
http://www.kenfeingold.com/recentworks.html
http://www.kenfeingold.com/
http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=3

I am extremely fascinated with Charlotte Davies work. It has a virtual unreal feel to it. Giving the viewer a sense of a world beyond our existence. Her work is computerized in three-dimensional forms. She integrates real-time stereoscopic dimensional images. In her works she portrays nature, psyche, and perception. In her previous works she has worked with different media such as including painting, documentary filmmaking and animation, developing a symbolic language.
In one of her works called the “Osmose� she portrays a virtual environment that causes abrupt crossovers, and creates a unique experience for the viewer and makes them become aware of the surrounding space. The overall composition, the color, the alpha, every aspect of it is intriguing. I found a few websites that I looked at, figured it would interest as much as it did to me. Why read about it when you can see it!! Check it out!!

The artist I chose for this was Stanley Lau.

He was born in Hong Kong, and migrated to Singapore 15 years ago when He was 17. His native language is Chinese and he speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and English. He took up a diploma course in Visual Communication in a local polytechnic – Temasek Polytechnic. He is the founder of Paprika a design firm. He is also a founder of a t-shirt company as well as the art director for Imaginary Friends Studios. He works primarily in the digital arts and his work various from Digital paintings of all sorts. It often mimics real life art styles such as chinese ink brush work. It goes from gestural to incredibly detailed. He often works with a character he created called pepper and many works revolve around her.
http://artgerm.deviantart.com/art/Pepper-Orient-34121657
This is his work that i really enjoy it is a very beautiful and amazing digital painting its stylistic aspects often influence some of my work and i have goals to one day do detailed amazing work like this. His Simplistic yet complicated style often is a goal of mine in different digital illlustrations and other works that I do.

Check out his art on Dev art here http://www.artgerm.deviantart.com/
and IFS here
http://www.imaginaryfs.com/

Kareen Lane

Artist: Carl Fudge

Born in London in the age of 1962, Carl Fudge now resides in New York, which he has been living there for ten years. His most recent work is of a piece called “Rhapsody Spray,� and this piece is of a Japanese anime character named Chibi Moon, which is of the anime called Sailor Moon. This piece Fudge had used screenprint and scanned pieces in of Chibi Moon to make and abstract piece. In doing so he had also made other 4 other pieces exactly the same using chromatic variations to make the pieces separate but the same black lines. He also uses other things in his artwork such as his usual print but also painting and his drawings that usually just ends up as the prints etc. In his work using print technologies, he uses old and new not just one or the other and these works sometimes come from 17th century. Those include woodcuts and screenshots or unique arts that most people have seen in the past or are used to, to this day.
Fudge has many different things that end up looking different with all the same patterns in different ways. Not only did he use the character from Sailor Moon, which is anime, but he has also shown another image the same way done in it’s own way that is also anime. This is the mobile suit gundam that he has worked on that is also in anime form. His digital technology has gone from one to the other in the same way but since the colors are different in the different animations, they show completely different artworks because of those colors and different shapes and design even though the design was also the same. When doing his works before he starts jumping into the composition he starts exploring everything that has to do with the program or the artwork. Meaning the artwork he explores everything that he could possibly do with this artwork. He uses lots of different techniques that would have to deal with the geometric, lines, and plane, patterns that all have different kinds of color and even kind of color that really grabs your attention.
When he had went to school he had started out at the Brighton Polytechnic which is in Sussex and had went there for three years in 1985. Not stopping there he had went to Kansas City Art Institute which was in 1987. After then he had attended the Tyler School of Art which is in Philadelphia and had went there in 1988 for two years. His works to me are more fun which has more meaning into manipulating the digital field that has been already created once before. He has taken arts already created and just had his own fun with them in whatever way that has come to him in a cense of figuring out how to make a piece different with still its same form still showing.

Charlotte Davies is an artist that throughout her career has successfully fused art and technology to create a very unique style of art. She plays with the concept of the human psyche
and nature in her many years as an artist.
Davies first went to school at Bennington College in Vermont in 1973 to study the liberal arts of visual art, religion, philosophy, anthropology, and biology. After two years there She decided to switch colleges and finish out her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia, which offered many more artistic possibilities in different medias. She started out her career as a documentary filmmaker and production assistant. She also made her way into the world of animation. After being in the work world for many years Davies stumbled upon the world of 3-D computer animation in the mid eighties. In 1987 she was on of the founding directors for the company Softimage. The company Softimage is responsible for the special effects in movies such as Jurassic Park and The Matrix. Working in a company that had many visual resources opened up many creative doors for Davies. She was able to create many multimedia projects, mixing audio, video, and 3-D computer imagery.
The images Davies works with in the digital genre are usually based off organic: nature/human principles, this is very evident in her installation in 1995 “Osmose�. In the Digital Art Book by Christine Paul she fits into the category “Virtual and Argumented Reality�. This installation is what drew me into Charlotte Davies work. As you first see the installation you are drawn to the seats in the middle of the room so you can sit back and watch the imagery slideshow in the darkened room. The Combination of projected imagery of real, or virtually rendered real images with video of humanesque figure spread on the different walls. I was really drawn to this particular piece because of how large it is and how many different digital medias she was able to mix to create a truly unique installation.
Charlotte Davies may help influence my work in that she thought outside the box, and used very large medias and the fact that she bases most of her work off the natural world but tweaks them a bit to make them her own and create a virtual reality, which I do like doing. Many of my works are based of a somewhat natural but fantasy, digital world.
Artists Links:
www.immersence.com/; http://www.charlottedaviesart.co.uk/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/davies/biography/?desc=full

Josh Faust

Artist: Warren Neidich

Warren Neidich lives in New York City at the time. He does a wide spread of artwork all around the world. He was the keynote speaker who closed the day of presentations and disscusions around the posthuman condition but from a neuroasthetic perspective. He was recently awarded the arts council england arts and humanities research board, science and art fellowship. His book wich is co-published by the foundation and DAP with an introduction by the art historian norman byson has recently been released. Warren Neidich's digital art is very contemperary and usually has words of strong meaning is it. His work is also extremely vivid. A specific art piece i like by him is "Red White Blue" Its done with neon lights and for some reason im drawn to it. Warren might help me with my digital work by making me look deeper into the meaning of the art im doing, to do the work for a reason.

http://www.warrenneidich.com/

I would have put 3 links but i feel that this is the best one. It's his home page and shows a lot of his stuff. Have a look.

Michelle Wirz

Artist: Paul M. Smith

Smith was born in London in 1969. He joined the army and held the position of Combat Engineer in the Royal Engineers. While in the army Smith started by taking night classes in photography. Soon his skill was noticed and he able to obtain the position of the regiment’s photographer. After leaving the army, he completed a fine art course at Coventry University and following received his Masters of Arts in photography from Royal College of Art in 1997. While at Royal College he started experimenting with the new digital technology to alter his photographic images. This was a new approach to photography, and it was at first looked at negatively. Smith was willing to be criticized in exchange for exploring the new world of digital technology. In many of his images, he uses only himself as the subjects. Multiple images of him are used to show the different roles of people. He sets up many present situations in our society and documents it with a series of pictures. Using digital software, like photoshop, he superimposes images of himself into the background shot. Paul Smith uses digital technology as a tool, by making images that seem to be neither artificial nor authentic representation.
One of my favorite pieces by Smith is from his Action series. It is an image that is taken from below and shows two people above fighting. This image is neat because of the perspective it is shows from and the action that is taking place. It reminds you of a movie scene, but it is a still. The lighting from the background shows color along the walls of the building. Angles from the building and even the diagonal angle the picture was taken at are very interesting to the eye. Photography is a big part of his digital art, and that is also true in my art. I use photography in most of my digital art. Using my own image in my art is also something that I have tried. Looking at his series influences me to use my photography and impose other images into it. Overall the themes of his work stand out to me. Everyone can relate to wanting to be some kind of action hero star or being a sports fan and that is what his series are about.

http://www.paulmsmith.co.uk/

http://www.goliathbooks.de/V1/PaulSmith.html

http://www.amoda.org/artists/artist.php?ArtistID=125

Jennifer Bradley
Digital Artist BLOG: Chris Finley

Digital artist, Chris Finley was born in 1971 in Carmel, California. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1993 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His work has been shown across the country and has several permanent collections in New York and California. Finley’s work has been described as a controlled chaos. Utilizing pattern and design Finley laboriously incorporates computer manipulated images into his paintings. It is difficult to classify his images, however the technical qualities and use of playful shapes and cartoon like spirals possess a humorous reference to surreal abstraction. An art review from the New York Times stated, “if Chris Finley’s artwork had a soundtrack it would be some kind of comical shrieking.�
I have contacted Mr. Finley and inquired about his process and inspirations. In a prompt reply Finley explained the lengthy process by which he attains the images he is to transfer to canvas. I was very surprised and excited to find that many of his dynamic and abstracted paintings are actually derived from portraits of people whom he takes interest. For example, he has manipulated the photos of Dana Priest, Lisa Randall and Morgan Freeman to make highly abstract, large scale paintings. Illustrator is his primary digital tool. He begins with a photo, scans it into the computer, creates a flat silhouette and exports the resulting shape into a 3-d program. From there he spins the shape 360 degrees to achieve a unique form resembling a “ceramic vase on a potters wheel.� He then proceeds to bring this new shape back into illustrator where he spends enormous amounts of time distorting, stretching, rotating and entirely altering the shape using very small gestures of the mouse. “Clicking and dragging has altered our experience of our everyday reality. Communication, commerce, personal relationships and so on. My goal has bee to use this gesture to create a form of complex abstraction. I use my wrist and fingertips on a small 8x9 inch pad to create complex movements. The resulting painting is a record of these gestures.� Finley often creates multiple versions of each digital image and confesses he often has much difficulty deciding which image to transfer to the canvas.
He enjoys the idea that in a digital image evidence of the artist hand can be seen in the lines and shapes where as in a painting it can be seen in the minor imperfections and changes in the direction of brush strokes.
Finley’s work is found in the print and photography section of the book. Although the finished product is ultimately a “painting� he still uses digital prints and photo portraits for inspiration. I am extremely interested in this process of digital manipulation carried out onto a canvas. I am a painter; my goal for this class was to take something from the digital world that I can apply to painting and/or ceramics. Research on this artist has excited me about discovering new different methods of acquiring imagery to use in a painting, sculpture etc.

http://www.chrisfinleyart.com/Site2/index.html

http://renabranstengallery.com/Finley_Tour04.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_2_87/ai_53868146

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E3DB133DF932A15752C0A9669C8B63

I think Daniel Canogar is such a interesting artist. His work has so much expression and detailed meaning to it. You can’t just look at it once and be done, it warps you in and makes you feel the hidden message behind the wall. Daniel mainly works with photographic formats and installations. He created this interesting multi-projection system in the late nineties using fiber optic cables. His work exhibits the human body… Today Daniel lives and works in Madrid. He has been awarded numerous grants and awards for his work. He studied visual communications and received his Master’s in photography from NYU/ICP in 1990. On particular piece I like is Otras Geologías 11. It has a lot of detail and you look at something new ever time you see it.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/3566/daniel-canogar.html

this site has a lot of his current art works.

I choose to do my artist report on Graham Harwood. He first worked for a publishing company called Working Press. Later he joined up with an underground news paper in London whose main focus was on new technologies and its uses in the art world. His most notable achievement is his co-founding of the artist group Mongrel. Mongrel creates cultural products by using all technologies available to them. They pride themselves on very often creating their own software to get a project done.
Graham Harwoods most interesting work to me is his series called 'Rehearsal of Memory'. In this work Graham went to a psychiatric ward the social oucasts who normal society says are unfit to live with us, this is one thing that Graham wants us to look at. He took very large scans of parts of the patient’s bodies. He then used their scans and their stories and re created the life of an inmate. The scans of the bodies reveal the patients scars from their self damaging habits. When you look at the scars it can be very unsettling. When the pieces were presented to the public Graham had the viewer physically touch the scars on the screens. Upon touching a wound the image would change and
trigger a story to pop up on the patient and their history of abuse. This made the viewer feel more responsible for probing into this patient’s painful life.
Graham Harwood used serial killers, rapists, suicides and other social outcastes’
patients to try make the viewer think about his views on good and evil. Graham did this to mirror our look on good and evil, the normal society looking at the outcasts, normal looking at abnormal. Another thing Graham contrasts is war veterans who have killed and are without remorse. I find all of Graham Harwood's ideas very interesting. I personally disagree with certain views I believe he is saying about these two societies. Regardless, his work is fascinating
and I love the idea of interacting with the wounds of the patients to produce memories and a history behind them. The images are simple and stark and have a very eerie quality to them. He has really captured the pain that these people feel and the complete depression that comes from living in an abnormal society.

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/work/.xslt/nodenr-128499
http://lmj.mit.edu/isast/newhorizons2000/harwood.html
His artist group
http://www.mongrelx.org/?q=taxonomy/term/20
http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/int_a_gharwood.html
one very intense image
http://www.mongrel.org.uk/files/pictures/rom1.jpg

For artist research, I chose to do David Small. He got his background in education from Muriel Cooper, where he studied dynamic typography in 3D. He went on to MIT to get his Ph.D in display and manipulation of visual information in 1999 this would be his third degree from MIT. His work has been featured in a wide variety of places like the museum of sex, the Nobel peace center, Martha Stewart living and The Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston. He is now the founder of a Boston based design firm call Small Design. The firm specializes in specializing in the display and manipulation of visual information. I found him in Chapter 3, Themes in Digital Art one them is beyond the book: text and narrative environments. His work was an excellent example of this he takes words and make them interactive and conceptually pleasing. His doctoral thesis was rethinking the book and his idea the Talmud Project, which is featured in the book, I find especially interesting. He couples related text in a unique way. There are dials that the viewer can use to view the text in multiple ways like scale and focus. It is shown at the Cooper Witt in New York. He did not intend to market this idea for the Nobel Peace Center, however he got corporate funding for the project. The text is in layers and is easily readable. You can go from reading one word to a whole paragraph. http://www.aec.at/en/archives/center_projekt_ausgabe.asp?iProjectID=11206
I found that there is an interesting question answer session from Small in the book The Education of a Design Entrepreneur, by Steven Heller on http://books.google.com/books?id=v2cgvg8cDi4C&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=david+small+small+design+firm&source=web&ots=VRymLkU_DC&sig=DQPNzQ1-yorPU3AjUL3TaP4fvSg#PPP1,M1. Beside learning about David Small I learned a lot from this reading about the creative profession of design and found it very fascinating. You can see his home page at http://www.davidsmall.com/. It made me think about my design work and how in order to make information accessible to all we as a designer need to rethink how we present our information to the viewer. Also David Small did an experimental project for Martha Stewart with printing on food and I just find that fascinating. I think that if I can do design work that focus on stuff that is ordinarily not focused on like printing on an eggplant than that will give me an edge. I also am inspired by David Small because he started his own design agency and I think we all can learn from him.