Sam Binder

Originals (including wearables and commissions)

Email me; the email address is available once you log in. It's done this way to prevent spam scrapers. The presently-available originals are all tagged as Available.

Prints & Products

These are presently sold out. Drops will happen occasionally, usually through a publisher of some sort (as I am ill-equipped to deal with merchandise, mail order, and payment processing). I'll announce them on the website here and also via email list (which you can join by signing up).

Full purchasing & commissioning details are over on their own page.

This site is intentionally designed as a slightly older, "retro" model of website; navigation is largely done by tag, which represents something about the piece and allows you to find pieces of a similar ilk; for instance, the Ink tag will take you to works made with india ink, ballpoint pen, and so on. From there, you may find a piece you like that uses Chromatic Aberration as a design element and see the works made with that.

The All Tags and Random pages are good jumping off points.

For the most part, the site avoids trying to gather as much data as it can about you, and avoids trying to load things such that other pieces of the website move around. It is designed to be more plain than not, because I think the busy, ad-riddled, metric-and-marketer-driven website fundamentally does not trust its viewer; I think this is antithetical to the process of looking at art, thinking about art, and taking the time to appreciate art. This tactic also has the added bonus of lowering the amount of technical debt I have to deal with when something invariably goes wrong.

As for why I've done it this way, why this was a goal? I think the current trend of website design feels like we're creating strip malls but digitally. I miss a messier, uglier, more DIY internet, so, extending my strip mall metaphor, I will gladly be the idiosyncratic shop that no-one is really sure how it stays in business, smells indecipherable, and maintains weird hours. Those were my favorite shops growing up; to have every website be an uncanny choice between "Wal-Mart" and "Wal-Mart With A Little Something Else" bums me out. Weird is good for the soul.

Also, I'm not completely allergic to UX/UI - on most posts, the navigation to chronologically adjacent posts is done either via the links at the bottom of the page or via the arrow keys on your keyboard.