Virtual art studio and gallery inspired by Piet Mondrian. You can create your own painting in the studio then hang it in the gallery alongside your fellow artists.

Hey Ben! This is nice. I am a big Mondrian fan. It just reminded me at this piece of furniture I made with a friend about 15 years ago:

(we called it "mondriart")... Good old times ;-) One small point about your project: navigating through the gallery is painfully slow ;-)

@danischenker this is awesome!! Thanks for the feedback, were you navigating it on mobile or desktop?

@ben_graves On desktop...

This was a fun personal project I completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. I wanted to create a virtual art studio and gallery space where people could create artwork and enjoy other people's work. I wanted to explore the idea of limiting the set of tools available to the user to encourage creativity whilst giving the works a sense of continuity. I used the artistic style of Piet Mondrian, a 20th Century Dutch artist best known for his work with perpendicular lines and the use of the primary colours to create an online space celebrating this iconic artistic style. This project created challenges in both design and engineering. I enjoyed the interaction design challenge of recreating the painting process digitally and exploring how this could be scaled down to mobile devices. I also devised an interesting method of storing the paintings people produced as binary trees rather than images to maximise rendering speed and quality, which you can see more about here https://bengrav.es/project/mondrian

UPDATE: mondrian.fun has had an amazing response since this post, 1500 submissions and counting! I have now created a Twitter account to share my favourite pieces that have been submitted, you can see it here https://twitter.com/mondrianfun

Hey Ben! This is nice. I am a big Mondrian fan. It just reminded me at this piece of furniture I made with a friend about 15 years ago:

(we called it "mondriart")... Good old times ;-) One small point about your project: navigating through the gallery is painfully slow ;-)

@danischenker this is awesome!! Thanks for the feedback, were you navigating it on mobile or desktop?

@ben_graves On desktop...