Welcome!
Welcome to my online galleries of paintings, drawings, illustrations and a now a new book!
This light-hearted book is a reflection on the exponential growth of information technology and how it has manifestly transformed the graphic design industry over recent decades. Charting the rapid developments and advances in computing, it presents a personal perspective of the trials and tribulations of working within this changing environment. The narrative starts with an outline of the nature of art and design at school in the 1970s and continues throughout the subsequent decades to the present day. Although art and design forms the context of this book, it will be of interest to anyone who has embraced personal computing to the extent that it has pervaded and dominated their working lives.
Rod Shaw has worked as a designer and illustrator for the Water Engineering and Development Centre at Loughborough University for over thirty-five years. Here, he has also designed and illustrated publications for international agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO), The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Published by the
Independent Publishing Network
ISBN 978-1-83654-260-5
Shaw, R. J. (2025) What You See Is What You Get: A Personal History of Personal Computing. Loughborough, UK.
Copyright © 2025 Rod Shaw.
PAINTINGS & PRINTS
The images on the website were created using a variety of media. Many are also available for purchase as fine art giclée prints and greeting cards. To commission an original work you can contact me directly. Selected images are available as limited edition (LE) giclée prints produced at the same size as the original paintings. Other items from the archive are available on request.
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These paintings were produced for the ArtSpace exhibition on the theme of 'FLOW' currently taking place at The Sock Gallery, Loughborough in the UK from 7 March to 20 April. If you are not local to Loughborough, you can preview the show on Facebook. Prints are available of my contributions to the exhibition, a series of paintings with the titles Incoming Tide at Marazion, Cornwall, I, II, III. A triptych of all the images is also available. The original paintings are currently for sale at the gallery.
