Originality and creativity are key elements to most endeavors, including of course; design. I have only recently been informed on the work of Joshua Davis, and it would appear that he uses the two qualities mentioned above. This short excerpt is from the march 2006, issue of Wired magazine.

"Davis creates what he calls generative composition machines: applications written with his collaborator Branden Hall, using open source code and Flash to automate his sketches. He plugs in multiple options-say, five different drawings of a tree trunk, 10 types of leaves, seven branches, 15 critters that can live in the foliage, and 12 background colors. then his code morphs the image from pastoral scenescape into any number of moving visuals."

The title of the article, written by Scott Kirsner is "The Barely controlled Chaos of Joshua Davis." The finished product does sound chaotic. However with computer programming and coding capabilities in todays day and age, Davis simply used the technology at hand to create prints of his coded pictures. The chaotic part would have to be that he was the one to come up with the idea to use this technology to create one of a kind illustrations, which I presume change continuously until he stops the program in order to print a frame of his creation. Having seen several of Davis' prints and his website, www.JoshuaDavis.com, Davis is using the idea of abstract art in his process. This however could be seen in two ways. He could be creating abstract forms in a chaotic manner, by letting the computer alter his files or he could be using the controlled form of computer computations in a way which produces abstract/chaotic work. Either way he is challenging the normal constraints of digital art and hand made art.