Adelaide graphic designer Tyson Beck scores contract with NBA designing digital art

ABC (Australia) - South Australian graphic designer Tyson Beck has worked for some of the world's biggest sporting stars with clients such as Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson on his resume.

The 25-year-old recently landed an official contract with the National Basketball Association (NBA), designing digital art for millions of fans who follow the league on social media.  Read more.

Beauty By Design: The Intersection Of Data And Digital Art

Tech Crunch - At The Space launch event last summer at the Tate Modern over 150 coders, hackers and digital artists were challenged to take any dataset and turn it into a work of art over the course of 24 hours.

With participants camped out overnight for the art hack, Tate’s cavernous Turbine Hall was transformed into a vast coder’s paradise, replete with the kind of creatively charged atmosphere that only a looming deadline can provide.  Read more.

Galleries around the world are finally "starting to take digital art seriously"

de zeen Magazine - "Digital art has been around since the 1950s," claims writer and curator Conrad Bodman. "But not many museums and galleries have focused on it as a serious subject matter."

"In the last ten years that's really changed. Many venues around the world are now having a serious look at this area and the artists that are working in it."  Read more.

Africa remix: the artists subverting colonial imagery

Guardian UK - Share, click, repost, send. These are the daily habits of hundreds of thousands of Africans living parts of their life online, connecting them to regions, histories and people that, like for all of us, were previously inaccessible.

Africa’s major urban centres have since 2000 become rapidly digital ready: investment in mobile broadband, fibre-optic cables, and the expansion of power supplies has enabled millions of people across the continent to get online. Coupled with the declining costs of smartphones and tablets...read more.

French Digital Artist Claire Sauvaget 3D Prints Her Own Mental Maps

Debra Thimmesch @ 3Dprint.com - French digital artist and sculptor Claire Sauvaget takes us along with her on her daily commute. We trail behind her down stairs, around corners, onto crowded train platforms, and through narrow corridors. We speed in a train car underneath the busy streets of Toulouse, France, Sauvaget’s home, and emerge into daylight after scaling yet another flight of stairs from the underground.  Read more.

Chinese firm 3D-prints 5-story house using construction waste 'ink'

RT.com - A Chinese company has used 3D printers to create five-story homes using construction waste. The project architects say this is the world’s tallest building constructed using this technology.  Read more.

Acne Launches Subscription-Based Digital Art Display

ArtNet - Swedish brand Acne—best known for its fashion label Acne Studios—will launch a subscription-based platform to display digital art in your home. Named Curater, the venture is based around a custom-designed LED panel, which will be distributed to 500 users on launch, 50 of whom will receive it for free.  Read more.