John Steven Calder

Born in Detroit Michigan in the year of the finest Chevrolet, 1957, Calder's upbringing was one of extraordinary paradoxes. The son of a Gangster and a loving Mother, a Catholic school altar boy, a young budding filmmaker and life-long artist. An accomplished designer and inventor, Mr. Calder's spent decades in Silicon Valley, as a proven leader of bright, disruptive & creative team of engineers and designers to develop cutting edge products. Mr. Calder has designed countless hardware, software consumer and commercial products for over 40 years. The Ocean Beach Series is a collection of CSS Art, extremely simple web pages with the minimal amount of coding. It began as an exercise at the San Francisco Art Institute, where Mr. Calder is a graduate. Experimenting with composition, palette and ratios, I visualized San Francisco's historical icons in the most minimalist way. The final compositions are simple web pages that contain less than 20 lines of computer code. The challenge has been to capture these iconic scenes as detailed and as lean as possible You can visit the artist’s web site at http://www.johnstevencalder.com and view the originals and the computer code. All images and source code are ™ Registered Trademarks & © Copyrights of John Steven Calder