NFTs allow artists to market digital works directly, which is really convenient. Previously, I would have made prints or paintings from works that begin as Photoshop renderings in hopes of selling them. When an artwork exists as an NFT, however, the blockchain provides an undisputed claim (and potential trail) of ownership, which is pretty exciting. Moreover, whenever an NFT is resold, the original creator can get a small percentage of all future sales.

The process of “minting” a digital work or artifact as an NFT comes with a very real cost, however, and ultimately I didn’t want to invest that level of money into an experiment. So here are my three “Almost NFT” designs, available to anyone and everyone as a free download. Scroll down below the triptych to access the high-res versions. Note: these are designed at the larger iPhone 10 screen size (1125 x 2436px), but can be used on most any version.

Like my other RGB and Sometimes Y work, these screens begin with a screenshot from the ongoing RGB feed, which you can view here. The feed presents tweets in near realtime from the Twitter public timeline that mention to words red, green, blue, and yellow (in any context). From left to right, the backgrounds above were captured:

• June 6, 2021 at 6:43pm CST
• June 25, 2021 at 10:52pm CST
• June 28, 2021 at 3:19pm CST

From there, I added an RGB star, gradients, shadows, and the transparent cube pattern for additional texture.

Free to Download!

Grab any or all of the individual designs below for use on your own phone:

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I later offered up the design to the Golden Dice Podcast as a reward for their Patreon subscribers. They printed out my card, and now it’s sprinkled in Destiny collections throughout the country. Here’s a photo comparing my design with the original:

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Aquarium Badge –Visit the Moody Gardens Aquarium in Galveston, and then draw and/or color a picture of a favorite fish that you saw.

Haircut Badge – Get a haircut during the first week of summer vacation.

Ice Cream Badge – Eat ice cream or frozen yogurt in three different cities.

Reading Badge – Read five books from your Summer Reading list.

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This webpage was designed and built specifically for that fair, and the voting mechanism was deactivated after the fair’s conclusion. Perhaps not surprisingly, the majority of fair patrons who were willing to participate voted for Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney.

You can view the archived web page using the link below, and then visit here to see some of the other design collateral I created for the booth.

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Candidate stickers, each 4″ x 3″, handed out during the 2012 Texas Contemporary Art Fair.

Placard design for booth at Texas Contemporary Art Fair, printed and mounted to foam board, 11″ x 17″.

Unprinted Championship banner design.

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Next, in wanting to turn these designs into a more tangible piece of campaign collateral, I designed “team” stickers and had them printed for distribution.

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