https://github.com/rasagy/birthday-art

Take a birthday and make some art!
https://github.com/rasagy/birthday-art

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Take a birthday and make some art!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rasagy/birthday-art
• Owner: rasagy
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-08-02T05:54:18.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-08-29T10:19:54.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-08T08:51:25.933Z (9 months ago)
• Size: 40.8 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# 🎂 → 🎨

_Take a birthday and make some art!_

## What is this?

This is the repository for the Data Art workshop that I did at the Curtain Raiser for DesignUp 2017. This hands-on workshop was used as a follow up to my talk introducing each type of medium of data with a few examples.

- [The slides for the talk are here.](https://speakerdeck.com/rasagy/using-data-for-art)

- [The slides for the workshop are here.](https://github.com/rasagy/birthday-art/raw/master/slides/birthday-workshop-deck.pdf)

## Why birthdays?

Birthdays are unique to each person, and we _(try to!)_ remember birthdays of those closed to us as well — thus making them a personal yet easy to use dataset. It also leads to interesting conversations _(“How does your birthday look like?”)_ and a visual exploration can exhibit interesting patterns _(“Looks like you were born in the same year!”)_.

## What’s next

The workshop was focused on doing things by hand (inspired by the [Conditional Design workshops](https://conditionaldesign.org/)), thus removing the barrier to know programming for designing systems and creating data art. But creative coding can enable you to create much more, and I’ll be exploring this next.

## Pics or it didn’t happen

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MJbL-HlJtlf4r5xdJ3f7J-aDnphUC4sW5etaAFOtaROMbAzkVtWFmYXQMLk72vXKQk9RXeHfXJaneTV0CwmnKObjilGYOgQ798ezLAMI44Cz0vZwvuukcJbmDKqM0uJDKIhcAF3U9jj4ql47ChEmF1-GR24ueg)

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rpISJ5Svb14-ydpttiLZDmPmwSbDbLJ2vuUMgSwuCEr_F2Th8pkgr7BU9w50GG5qzqCyNxpmvLROehxdFVpK7Uxz7japHcttjVxzH1n4gEeDE-QDyrSBUqfutP8CeLvS6MpzElfcXdvMHdypSCcQJagGSqC5Rw)

![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/c__93sfZh-LzUJSDHq9qKVP54Mza1gYScN3R4iSmUC3gkcnJy0Rp7Y5kEsR8E0iAnVCLIGFqwKnPy-aTh2ulVRl9h-1z-_HLurbFVDCPQZIhQ9sTMjteNeYgg9qTggqcsRDgtSOFuipE4t06HKunAcsBsA_Z7g)

_Photos by the awesome [Prabin Pebam](https://twitter.com/prabinpebam)_