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Wurm: generative art like you've never seen.

02/21/12  |  Posted by Amber Luning  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

Wurm is a generative art app. For those unfamiliar with generative art, it is the method of using algorithmic processes to create a work. For those unfamiliar with algorithms, they're math. Generative art is a...

iBooks makes textbooks fun to use (Part 2: Biology)

02/07/12  |  Posted by Amber Luning  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

For this review I am only going over one book: E.O Wilson's Life on Earth. Because it's the only biology text available, and because it's the best thing that has ever happened to textbooks. Algebra...

iBooks make textbooks fun to use (Part 1: Math)

01/31/12  |  Posted by Amber Luning  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

With the update of the iBooks app comes a plethora of new features. One such feature is the ability to download interactive textbooks from Apple's iBookstore. Why interactive textbooks? Well, for starters, interactivity promotes leaning and...

Jim Lee Makes Batman Come to Life on an iPad Screen

12/10/11  |  Posted by Amber Luning  |  Posted in Digital Creativity

Jim Lee is a legend in the comic artist community, someone every Illustration major secretly wants to be when they grow up. He started at Marvel, originated the beloved character Gambit with Chris Claremont, quit...

Sketchbook Express for the Ipad brings Autodesk's free drawing app to your fingertips.

11/19/11  |  Posted by Amber Luning  |  Posted in Digital Canvas - Apps & Accessories

Sketchbook Express is a program initially released free with Wacom's Intuos 4 and Bamboo 3 graphics tablets. It received good reviews, with the general consensus of "well it isn't photoshop, but it isn't bad either"....