One of the more exciting calls I get as an artist working in the field of new media is for editorial illustration work.
Itâs rare. I most do generative design as a commercial practice. I donât have a background in illustration or even a portfolio of this kind of work, so I am always excited when an art director looks at my mostly abstract and gestural animations and inquires about a possible connection. I really enjoy brainstorming and thinking about what images or animation would help bring an article to life.
I am a teacher â at MIT Media Lab, where I help run the Future Sketches group, and at the School for Poetic Computation, and one of the things I teach is a practice of computational sketching. I love to see students engaging with code â seeing computation as a malleable medium they can use for art and design â but one thing I always see students asking is, âhow can I use this professionally?â Itâs nice to teach young people how to mak