Artist Post 5: Derek Prospero (Web Designer)

Derek Prospero is a web designer and is also skilled in multitudes of other artistic fields. He is a "multi-disciplined artist, write, photographer, and creative director" (Prospero's Web Site). I searched pretty thoroughly and was a little bit surprised when I could not find a photo pf him anywhere online. He has a Facebook page and his photo isn't even on there. Keeping your picture off the internet these days can be a difficult task though, so that in itself is a little bit of an accomplishment. However, in browsing the images in the"photography" section of his site, I found something pretty close:

Photography: "Sunset Snapshot"

 Prospero's Web Site- the link above- is very well-done. He does a lot of work with the programs I have recently been exploring and creates design tutorials. He is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, which has awarded him with the "prestigious" Guru Award three times. Aside from his web site, which in itself shows all of his work, here are a few that I picked out, out of interest, all taken directly from his web site.

A piece of Mixed Media: "Blink"

Commercial Design: "Gypsy"

Computer Wallpapers: "Graffiti Skyline"

His web site in interactive, thorough, well-laid out, diverse, and artistically presented. When you move the mouse over things, they change, light up, or become colored images from previously being in black and white. The web site he made for himself is portfolio-style, as it is essentially an advertisement for himself. It was fun just to explore around the site.

The diversity of the kinds of digital media art Prospero does is amazing to me. He covers so many areas and seems to be very successful at all of them. As far as creating his web site, it is very well-done; it is sleek and modern, and is also accessible while being complex at the same time. The quality of his artwork and web design is great. As far as critiquing his work and his web site design, I don't have anything I would tell him to improve it; It think it is great and It is good for me to see it because it is helping me to form ideas for the web site I am creating.

After having worked with creating web sites a little bit in DreamWeaver so far, I really can appreciate all of the work that went into the creation of Derek Prospero's web site.