Using photos of my work and ‘App.Ology’ as I call it , the amount of designs I can create is endless!

What is App.Ology ? It it the name I gave to the process of using various apps in sequence to achieve different effects .

I had to choose a topic for a course I am doing and kept having to explain the process so I named it App.Ology so the assessors would know what I was talking about . I am trying to work out a formula to use but the possibilities are incredible! The combinations are infinite and the visual effects depends on the original source, which Apps they go through , which filters etc… Chance and coincidence play a big part in the designs and the introduction of new apps makes for even more exciting effects. I have been successful at harnessing the outcome to a certain extent and use ideas to re design from.I think I will be busy with App.Ology for some time….

I use App.Ology as part of the design process. I have a source, a drawing or piece of work , photograph it … and play with combinations of Apps . I can then derive various new designs from the result …and then repeat the process till I feel I have exhausted the creative process and patterns begin to repeat . It never fails to amaze me how far I can go with each source.

Here are the icons of the apps I am using . The majority of these apps are free and I have limited myself to the free versions so far . All the photos or prints that are named ‘Digital’ are a version of these apps.