Tree:Mix is a platform for designers and illustrators to show of their creative skills to the world through a variety of collaborative projects. We posted a while back about ‘Rip Rip, the project where people illustrate halves of a magazine page‘. Well this idea – started by recent design grad James Robert Fox – pushes that even further.
In ‘Digital:Mix’ one person does an illustration in either Photoshop or Illustrator and submits the artwork file to the website. This artwork can then be downloaded by anyone to embellish/improve with the only rule being a link to the existing piece. There is also ‘Scanner:Mix’ which caters for the hand-drawn technophobic illustration style by not allowing any computer trickery.
Both options are free for anyone to have a go at and the idea is brilliantly simple – in fact hopefully SSZ will have a pop at one over the christmas hols (if we can see over our collective bellies post-turkey that is). Then anyone can rate each mix and view them all in the provided gallery, or use the forum to chat to the artists.
Honestly, this site has everything a christmas-holiday thumb-twiddling aunt-avoiding wine-infused image-maker could ever need. Get yourself there, download the files and have a go. Your new Xbox can wait.
