Tony Wheeler's blog

For the past 3 years I've been working on the e-scape (e-solutions for creative assessment in portfolio environments) project

Tristram Shepard just sent me this link.

It's astonishing, you take your eyes off your browser for 10 minutes and suddenly most of the tools you dreamed of 6 months ago are th

I am fascinated by the increasing availability of free collaborative design tools. If you haven’t already played with ArtPad you should check it out. This is a free online painting resource that is really easy to use and while the tools are fairly basic, Artpad has 2 really interesting features:

Record and replay (time-based artwork)
Artpad records and replays all your painting actions which means that you:
• have unlimited “undos” if you make a mistake
• can take risks and experiment to see what happens ranging backwards and forwards through your image to check out the bits you really like
• can wake-up your paintings which become a performance where every stroke/action/gesture has a new significance.

Sharing and collaborating (visual conversations)
Because Artpad is web based you can share your images with someone else. There are a number of ways of doing this. You could:
• submit them to the artpad gallery
• e-mail them to a friend
• work together on a single image