A collection of my recent graphic experiments in the past few months of 2019.
Author Archives: Ballio Chan
Lines > Circle
Playing with a few rotated lines to create a circle. Mostly color studies here. Something cool I discover is that the moire pattern in these graphics create a nice vibration when you scroll the page. This reminds me of the genius SONOS rebrand by Bruce Mau Design that uses computation pattern to visualize sound.
Rotated squares
Inspired by Bridget Riley’s works. I started experimenting with squares that are slightly rotated and tiled, which creating some weird optical illusion when moved.
2018 Chans
Made this piece as a cover for our 2018 family holiday card. The idea here is making a piece of art with our last name 陳 (Chan) written out 2018 times.
Circles experimentations
Back at it for more circles drawbot fun. Playing with just using a circular shape and looping it many times with different rotations.
WordPress 5.0
In celebration of the new WordPress 5.0 release, I’m giving my site a new look! It’s using the latest and greatest Gutenberg-ready theme — Twenty Nineteen, designed by my talented Automattic co-workers and friends, Allan Cole and Kjell Reigstad. Pretty sleek! I am loving the flexibility of the block editor, and just how intuitive it is […]
Kendrick Lamar x Childish Gambino Mash-Up Album
This is dope. Found via okayplayer
Pink Spirals
Playing with rotation and colors here.
Select computational design experiments
Calder set in Caslon 422 set in Futura
Sort of a meta design. Using the unique shapes of Caslon, trying out some animation techniques of text fitting into paths made with type in drawbot. It was pretty cool that Ace Hotel retweeted it!
