Drawing Upon the Power of the Group
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Written By Reprise Media | December 9, 2005 | Share This
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SwarmSketch.com is a web site from Australia that allows popular search terms to dictate the topic of a weekly sketch drawing.
From the site’s homepage:
“SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week.”
Users can contribute by adding a small part to the drawing each time they visit, other users vote to determine the quality of the contribution. Those parts voted high quality are made darker, with less popular contributions fading into the background.
Unclaimed Baggage is one of my favorites but you can browse the collection to date here.
The NY Times (via CNET) has a more extensive article by Sarah Boxer.
A related site that’s also pretty cool is this one in BrandMarker, which asks random individuals to draw 12 popular brand icons from memory. You’d be amazed how easy it is to mess up an Apple.
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