“Working this way allows me to generate an infinite number of compositions, I set the boundaries and the rules, but whatever comes out at the end is a surprise. I don’t know what’s going to happen. It could look cool. It could fail. It could be life-changing. There’s always a surprising sense of discovery with this process, because I’m setting up an environment and allowing a scenario to live within it.” (Davis)
Davis created a whole new and different way for people to view communication and creative expressions in the design world. Despite his art-world credentials, he doesn’t like to be considered an artist but more of a designer, the way to put it in a broader field.
Today Davis is a professional designer and creative thinker. He is a professor at New York School of Visual Arts while he also runs his own design studio and does many workshops to broaden the outside world with his fine knowledge. He was greatly influenced by Mr. Jackson Pollock who was an abstract expressionist back in the 1940’s-1950’s. Pollock did a lot of work that consisted of splattered paint across large canvases. He always thought that his art was the process of its creation rarely ever worried about it being “the final piece”. He was known for doing illustrations for early children’s scripting language which later then turned into Action Script programming. He, himself, became a major influence in the graphic and web design world. He was also very known for his many tattoos leading him to the reputation of a web “rockstar”. Davis was also greatly influenced in the technology field by the love of video games which is why he used some types of figures in his design work.
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