Of a Feather.
Wrapping Paper
Last year I got a little bit carried away with an idea: what if I could generate color palettes for all 11,567 bird species in the world from their descriptions on Wikipedia? The result was Of a Feather, a series of prints celebrating birds, color, and my inability to let an idea go.
This year I'm revisiting one of my favourite outputs from the project: wrapping paper! I've made three new pattern types for five different sets of birds in three colorways, which means that you can wrap up your gifts in 45 different types of paper!
All wrapping paper is made by a global print network and ships plastic-free. This means low shipping costs for you and less carbon use for the planet. This year we also have kraft paper, which is unbleached.
Put some data art under the tree.
I've been making art from data since 2007. One of the most exciting challenges for me has always been to find ways to creatively represent data that doesn't involve charts and graphs.
These wrapping papers use data from four sources:
1. The eBird's Taxonomy
2. Wikipedia species descriptions
3. AVONET morphological trait data
4. XKCD's Color Name Survey
The feathers are rendered using a custom algorithm that I've been tweaking for twenty years.
These artworks are generated by code but they are not made by AI.
I promise you I am not an AI.
Three patterns.
Snowstorm: Snowflakes made from species clustered by size.
Grid: Neatly-labelled feather specimens
Swirl: Mesmerizing non-repeating patterns
Five bird sets.
Holiday Birds: Birds with the words red, green, Christmas, snow and winter in their common names
Hummingbirds: 375 species from the Trochilidae Family
Woodpeckers: 240 Woodpeckers, toucans, barbets and their relatives in the family Picoformes
Parrots: 410 squawky birds from the Psittaciformes
Warblers: New world warblers from the Parulidae family
