At times, I am saturated with ideas. But it is rare for me to completely actualize an idea. Much of the work that is started is never finished. Interest is lost and willpower runs dry. Maybe I am not a pixel artist, but an idea artist.

A free resource under the Creative Commons license, at last. These are labels pertaining to the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, otherwise abbreviated as ADR from the French title. The full text can be found here, and in particular, Part 5 of Annex A, which is the section describing the labels. The titles of the image files in the label packs have been adapted from this text.

There are two dimensions of labels that I’ve included: 9x9 and 13x13. These are meant to be implicit labels - perfect for pixel laboratory environments. They are too small to have numbering details included. Perhaps creating larger ADR labels will be a future project for Pixel Engineer.

Happy International Year of Chemistry!

A monochromatic palette may be used to age a piece or to create a lifeless atmosphere. Grey can be difficult to use when colours are involved. It is easier to make a piece entirely out of grey.

This is an abandoned electricity tower, sealed off by barbed wire and guarded by a warning sign. Clouds drift calmly in the background. An albatross soars by.

I aim to scale the production of Pixel Engineer up. In the near future, I will:

+ produce more free resources under the Creative Commons license;
+ create more pixel art that is composed of details as opposed to silhouettes;
+ release sketches and experimental works. 

A much-needed profile image for Pixel Engineer. Featuring an industrial city in the day.

The works I post are all squares with dimensions defined by powers of two: 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, etc. My preference is inspired by computer data storage and memory.

This post includes my first 128x128 production. It is my most detailed work yet. I did indeed once work in a lab.

Features include: glassware (from left to right: three flasks, a beaker, a graduated cylinder, and a distillation column with a collection flask), an unidentified yellow liquid, clean beakers, ventilation grilles, electrical outlets, closed maintenance panels, an NFPA 704 information poster, a miscellaneous safety poster, piping with valves, and a fluorescent light with electrical wiring.