Tag Archive: Graphics

Building with Extensibility

Basket Maker by Marilyn Anderson

Basket Maker by Marilyn Anderson

Extensibility is a term used for software, but it can also be used to describe building a house, a road or a website. It means starting off with something that meets your needs and planning for future additions.

Wikipedia describes extensibility as “Architecture that provides the design principles to ensure a roadmap for that portion of the road yet to be built.”

This concept of extensibility was applied to the website of artist Marilyn Anderson and the Pro Arte Maya Children’s Educational project, ProArteMaya.org, where we recently added updates and additions to an older website and a blog originally launched in 2007.  And there’s still more to do, but at this time a link seems appropriate. Please visit www.proartemaya.org.

All You Need is…

2009 Valentine graphic

Valentine 2009

How to Sell Art on The Internet

Ok, this post is really just an excuse to share links to slowlydownward.com, a website of the London artist Stanley Donwood. Every now and then a charming email newsletter arrives, looking like a printed broadsheet and titled Slowly Downward Taglibro.

London Views by Stanley Donwood

The email encourages a visit to the site and I always enjoy what’s found there.

The most recent newsletter (not shown here — you have to sign up) displays Fleet Street Apocalypse, a 25″ x 38″ linocut blockprint editioned with some eerie timing. A related series of prints can also be viewed online on the pages of LONDON  VIEWS.

An animated piece made of images from LONDON VIEWS is online at www.theeraser.net/Stage4UK/. There’s also some related CD cover art for the Thom York release of Atoms For Peace.