Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Softmart: Claude Shannon


I was one of 14 different illustrators to do a portrait of a breakthrough IT inventor for Softmart's 2012 promo calendar. I was assigned Claude Shannon, creator of binary code, which is fundamental to the basic operation of computers. This practically sold itself, so I made the entire portrait out of 1's and 0's and kept it very Apple IIe-green.. very 80's. I tried a single green tone, but there wasn't enough depth happening in the face, so there's a darker green in there as well. It was a pleasure to be a part of such a large, illustrated project!

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