tim west

Received a BFA in graphic design from VCU School of the Arts. Works independently as a digital designer and programmer. Experience in web, client/server, creative and embedded systems programming.

Focus on visual communication via web technologies, image making, printing techniques, applied computing, digital tool creation and hands-on fabrication.

Contact: tpw@cqfl.org

From the colophon:

The Cathedral and the Bazaar is based on the article of the same name, written by Eric Steven Raymond. Participants were instructed to read the article and then produce renderings based on the polar methods of creation; the cathedral (traditional) method and the bazaar method.

Contributors: Tobias Wilbur, Eliza Van Zoeren, Laura West, Bobby West & Tim West.

Image making techniques - some of which are collected into volumes.

The Popular Kids was a study group centered around the renovation of Monroe Park in Richmond, VA. Aside from the printed research, I co-authored a program - written in the Processing environment - that visualized user traffic through the park using GPS coordinates gathered by a smart phone.

Contributors: Lauren Hayes, Marshall Roach, Jorge Silva and Tim West.

Various letterpress work that I produced during my time at the VCU Arts Bowe House Press in Richmond, VA.

Sculptor portfolio site.

Identity and mobile web presence mock-up work for a men's clothing line.

A low power ambient environmental sensor. The device records data, then transmits over 915Mhz to a gateway that publishes to a MQTT server for easy client access.

Built with the Moteino M0 for the remote node and the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 Feather for the gateway.

All data collected on the network is made publicly available at eon.cqfl.org.

Designed as a low resource website, EON displays and visualizes data gathered by the Clim-Clam platform. Static plots are generated using Python running server-side and JavaScript updates text values on page load.

Refresh the page to see the lastest observations.

URL: eon.cqfl.org.

Book cover Book cover Book cover Open book with pink pages Open book with pink pages
A small publication Data visualization of people moving through a park
Letterpress image with piano imagery Very small letterpress book, about the size of a penny Very small letterpress book, about the size of a penny Two color letterpress print of black and red
Home page of an artist's website Home page of an artist's website, displaying some work
EON webpage
Illustration of a wire fox terrier Illustration of a bone Mobile webstie mockups Mobile webstie mockups
Electrical project enclosure Electrical project enclosure
Publication of image making techniques Concrete casts Scanned typography Typogrphy viewed through a camcorder