Fashionably late as usual, I posthumously bring you news of my contribution to Digital Arts Online‘s interactive design column. Kind of. Earlier this year, I was delighted to participate in a short interview regarding the current/most recent iteration of the International Teletext Art Festival and my own working practices. And you can read it here, if you have the patience!
illarterate - adj. lacking art, knowledge or skill; clumsy or uncultured.
Influences: public toilet cubicle drawings/slogans; WordArt posters in Market Street shop windows; Mega-Zine; bootleg vinyl artwork; Janne Suni; Pink Floyd; whoever is responsible for the Max Headroom hijacking incident; Collie, the Inept Reviewer.
Oh my, how could I have missed this? As of 27 July, you can collect Steam trading cards featuring designs by Illarterate from Railslave’s NPPD Rush: Milk of Ultra Violet game. Apparently that date has passed, but I wouldn’t know – I live in 1994. But then, you can probably tell from the style of…
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…
Hold everything right there! Kiss Ltd. have issued a press release regarding the forthcoming indie smash NPPD Rush: The Milk of Ultra Violet, which is due to hit virtual shelves this Thursday, 13 February 2014. Illarterate approached Dylan Barry, founder of Railslave Games, for a quote, but sadly he was unable to comment as he…
It was with great delight I learned the International Teletext Art Prize would be returning for another year of 8-bit scanline-tinged nostalgia. That’s not to say I wasn’t slightly apprehensive, as this home-brewed festival had grown appreciably in popularity from its relatively humble beginnings of ITAF12. With recognition brings pressure, a niggling “you have two…
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?…
