Seven Ways to Draw the Internet

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Ujala Sehgal 1,623 Views Jun 11, 2011

A UK-based digital agency Saint partnered with ArtWeLove, Deviant Art, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, and the NYC Department of Education to bring a contest called "Can You Draw the Internet?" to Internet Week in New York. The instructions for the contest, intended to support arts education in New York City, were only to "capture the spirit of the Internet's billions of pages in a single image," and participants included students, creatives, and established artists. Here are the entires that struck us as the most creative so far:

Barbara Ana Gomez/www.barbarana.com

Simon Labbett/Saint

Simon Attwater/LBi
 
Soul Min Cheung/Freelance
 
Dennis Ionkin/James Madison High School
 
Steven Segal/Washington State

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