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Paintings find their voices.
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Art makes room
for new ideas.
Look a little closer.
Explore early web art, painting and the ideas behind the interface. Follow a work, find a detail, discover another way to see.
Art & interactionPainting meets the interface
Close readingsIdeas grounded in the work
Original visual studiesDiagrams that explain
Follow the sourcesTrace each historical record
Featured projects
Explore the sourcesNew editorial cover illustrations introduce the historical projects explored in these guides.
Nothing Is Impossible Out Here
The conversation behind a favour.
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A Jolt from Deep Within
An image read through time.
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Digital Divide
From connection to influence.
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Urban Lullaby
A small gesture changes a scene.
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My Two Worlds
Painting becomes a moving city.
Read the projectLook at the work.
Follow the question.
Colour, light
& a closer look.
Three close readings of colour, light and space, with a route to all eight historical watercolour records.
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A new way into
an early web.
Artbrush connects historical works with questions you can explore today. Our independent edition pairs close readings with original diagrams and practical design examples.
Historical works keep their creators’ names. New guides and illustrations belong to the current editorial edition.
About this edition
Evidence before interpretation
Historical records stay linked and credited.
Small details, useful questions
A frame, a gesture, a path through information.
A clear editorial voice
Edited by Ellis Vey, the pen name used by Artbrush Editorial.
Ideas to explore
Artist resources
Finding what you remember
Follow a complete five-record example of scope, tags and clips.
Design around a reader’s task
See how audience and stage reshape a resource library.
What a project view needs
Read one recorded response about shared information.
Stay with a detail.
Repetition & formPainting to interfaceA mail-art recordAn early mobile pageEmail & attention