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inspiration, people (links)
June 5th, 2008
I’m still working on adding more entries… but it’s a start of a few of the people I admire.
main nav, inspiration, people
http://www.joshuadavis.com/links
no comments »Hello ! wordpress
January 7th, 2008
I’ve decided to embark on the arduous task of converting my entire portfolio to wordpress. The CMS and CSS possibilities of wordpress make it too easy to do the things I want to do… so with that said I will no longer be updating the Flash and XML site that I’ve been using for the past year.
Light gray links in the main nav are not available yet as the framework for these sections has not been finished yet. Any main nav links in blue are open and can be viewed - though some sections may be updating and the site could break or fail to display as I continue the progress of updating the CSS and PHP files.
old flash site here : www.joshuadavis.com/oldsite.html
by Joshua Davis
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12/14/2007 :
just published the press archive.
just fixed the ability to post comments.
12/13/2007 :
got the travel map up.
Lets Illuminate
January 6th, 2008
My father-in-law runs a lighting business and he asked me if I would come up with a website URL for him — so I thought “lets illuminate” had a good ring to it. I installed wordpress and wrote a quick theme for him to update. Then I thought I’d come up with a splash-page of animation based on this concept of illumination. Using AS2, BitmapData, and a blur filter… the end result is a nice pulsating algorithm of light and color.
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5 comments »SpearTalks
December 15th, 2007
I recently had some time to answer some questions from Carmel Hagen over at joshspear.com - for the SpearTalks section on their site.
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1 comment »Getty Museum, Los Angeles
September 7th, 2007
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Joshua Davis is certainly one of the highest profile digital artist to emerge in the last decade. Using what he calls generative composition machines, Joshua creates beautifully intricate images with a brash chaotic nature. There is something fitting of an artist who can be described with the same words as you would describe his art — Please welcome from New York, the always brash and chaotic, Joshua Davis.
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no comments »Apple Pro Profile
August 11th, 2007
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Joshua Davis: Infinitely Interesting
Joshua Davis is a design troublemaker. “A lot of printers ask me how I created my work,” he says mischievously. “Because technically, it’s not actually possible.”
Davis creates electronically generated graphic compositions of almost unimaginable complexity and individuality. Equally at home with print and electronic media, he builds his own Flash-based programs to combine and recombine colors borrowed from nature with forms that include organic shapes, text elements, and other symbols.
The resulting works of “dynamic abstraction,” as Davis calls them, are fluid, intricate, and unique as snowflakes. There’s an ephemeral quality even to his print work, which captures a single variation in a potentially endless sequence of design permutations.
By Elise Malmberg
no comments »Adobe Illustrator Customer Story
April 1st, 2006
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Controlled chaos: Creating a new design aesthetic using Illustrator CS2
There are many ways to produce artwork. Just ask Joshua Davis and his innovative design studio, Joshua Davis Studios. Davis uses Adobe® Illustrator® CS2 software as the genesis for his designs, creating shapes like trees, leaves, and flowers. He then transforms his design elements using computer programs that he writes to randomly generate artwork based on mathematical algorithms.
no comments »Wired Magazine
March 1st, 2006
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The Chaos of Joshua Davis
He’s a punk, a provocateur, the bad boy of Web design. They call him the Jackson Pollock of the Internet age. He calls them a few choice four-letter words. But everyone from BMW to the Tate Modern wants a piece of him.
By Scott Kirsner
no comments »BMW Z4 Documentary Film
February 20th, 2006
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Z4 by Joshua Davis:
A Design Project at the Leading Edge
U.S. artist interprets the new BMW Z4 Coupé in computer-generated unique prints
Munich/New York. Artists love to venture along and even beyond the ragged edge, pushing the envelope as they work and progressively redefining what is possible. Just a few years ago, the design of the new BMW Z4 Coupé, for example, would have been considered impossible to build – the lines too extravagant, the panels too complex to manufacture. For New York-based designer Joshua Davis, feasibility problems are familiar ground: His works originate on the computer, and to date, they have been considered too complex to print. This common ground recently triggered a spell of close collaboration between Davis and BMW – giving rise to a limited edition of unique prints inspired by the new Z4 Coupé.
1 comment »ID Magazine
June 1st, 2005
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Pioneering programmer Joshua Davis works with a star pupil: his software.
By Rich Hoxsey
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