Scott Blake

Scott Blake is a new modern artist, a website editor and T-shirt maker. He is most famous for creating more than 30 images out of material (bar-codes) even though it can take him up to six months to finish just one design.  He has been making his bar code art for 10 years. He was inspired by Roy Liechtenstein large comic book style paintings with over sized benday dots. The first picture he ever made was of Jesus (pictured above) and it took him 940 bar codes. He also creates barcode stencils that he calls ‘word paintings’, and barcode graffiti, like an image that simply says “Scott Blake was here.” When Scott Blake was asked how this bar code art all started this is what he said, " I first tried circles and then squares. The tile patterns morphed into a cluster of lines, and before I knew it, I was staring at a bunch of barcodes. I assigned the numbers to describe each pixel’s grayscale value and grid coordinate.” -Scott Blake.

Scott Blake is such a creative artist! Who would have ever thought to create a bar code into art, i love his work. I think everything about his iconic celebrity portraits are modern and really a "new" kind of art. The fact that he sort of stumbled upon this bar code art is crazy. He is also known for making some other electric art but most famous for the bar code art he does. I think his work is new, fun, and interesting to look at. Scott Blake is really just an example that there are so many different types of art out there.