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RGB iPhone Screen Designs

Brian — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:03:36 +0000

These iPhone screen designs came about because I decided I wanted to explore the NFT (non-fungible token) space in the summer of 2021. Digital Art and NFTs seem like a very natural pairing, yet I wanted to make something that was not just a stand-alone artwork. I settled on iPhone screens, which could be enjoyed more regularly in everyday life.

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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Trump’s Twitter Circus

Brian — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:00:01 +0000

Trump’s Twitter Circus, Website, 2017.

Trump’s Twitter Circus is a visualization of the president’s use of punctuation in his tweets. The piece chronicles his Twitter feed in real time, displaying the ending punctuation as a block on the screen. A viewer can mouse over each block to read the text from the source tweet.

Click here or on the “Launch Project” button below to view the work in a new browser tab.

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Medals (After Stella)

Brian — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:30:36 +0000

Medals (After Stella), Website, 2010/2012.

Medals (After Stella) pulls its composition cues from Twitter, presenting a changing array of concentric squares in gold, silver, and bronze. The piece searches Twitter for recent tweets containing the words “olympics”, “medal”, and at least one of the three medal colors. New qualifying tweets appear in the outer-most ring and are subsequently pushed towards the center. Originally produced during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, it was relaunched during the 2014 Sochi games.

The visual motif is borrowed from artist Frank Stella. When thinking about medals — or metals — and olympic rings, Stella’s black, aluminum, and copper paintings jumped to mind.

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This project has been archived and is no longer available on the web.

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Barack’s Twitter

Brian — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:05:20 +0000

Limited Edition Inkjet Print, 15″ x 24″, 2007.

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