A selection of my teletext graphics can currently be viewed on page 106 of the At The Races teletext service. Here’s a couple of pieces to whet your appetite, but you’ll have to go and look for yourself to see what other stuff I’ve been working on. 😉 Oh no, I can’t get analogue teletext […]
Category: Digital art
My submissions for International Teletext Art Festival 2012: Walkthrough
I first heard about International Teletext Art Festival 2012 through the Teletext Mailing List a couple of months back, but the desire to have works published via public teletext first arose some five years ago, during the research stages of my Pixel is Power dissertation. I considered contacting British teletext broadcasters to discuss the possibility […]
Teletext: The Life and Death of a Medium
Clearing out some of the bulkier files on illarterate.co.uk, I came across a timeline created for my final year Graphic Arts Research Project (GARP) I’d completely forgotten about. It may be text only, but wasn’t teletext? Well, I know it incorporated some primitive artwork, but wasn’t the text the bit you were interested in? No? […]
A load of old Babel: Illarterate hits the back pages! Sort of
Anybody who’s bought a newspaper and looked at the back page today will probably have noticed a particularly poor Photoshop of Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt. This one, in fact: Well, guess who made it? That’s right, some fool whose text you are reading right now. Namely myself. Feel free to peruse the […]
Alternative flag of Wales: Welsh Bands Forum
A while ago I was somewhat involved in the launch of the unofficial Welsh Bands Forum, and designed a mascot to be used in the site’s graphical identity. Sadly the forum is becoming a bit of an abandoned project but may be revived by its owner sometime in the future, at which point the designs […]
No-Ammo identity
For a long time, I’ve claimed to be part of the online writing/design/multimedia/whatever group No-Ammo. By that, I mean I’ve been floating about offering critical advice here and there, just generally annoying everyone else with my idleness. Now I decided to get off my big fat butt and actually do something for it. Well, I […]