Eight winners will receive $5,000 (or your local equivalent), a one year Creative Cloud membership and will have their work featured worldwide at Adobe MAX. In this spirit of Keith Haring, and to celebrate his legacy, Adobe is also tasking the creative community to use his brushes in Adobe Fresco or Photoshop to “draw a line for good” by creating an artwork promoting positive change. This time the challenge was really to try and look at the range of materials he used that are very common to everybody who uses any kind of natural media.” Adobe’s Kyle Webster tells us of the project: “Up until this point, my focus has been on trying to create digital versions of more high-end tools, as well as digital tools that create special effects. In turn, the new free library of brushes includes chalk, felt tip, spray paint, marker, and dripping paint, among others. While much of Haring’s ethos was spread through where he made his work, it also extended to how he made his work, often seeing him work with tools found outside of conventional art shops.
The brushes are free to download and the project marks the next step in Adobe’s mission to preserve and share the works of great artists, as well as putting them in the hand of creatives around the world. And it’s this sentiment that Adobe is drawing on in a collaboration with the Keith Haring Foundation, digitising Haring’s brushes in Adobe Fresco and Photoshop. Haring famously believed that “art is for everybody,” stating that “art is nothing” unless it reaches people from all walks of life. Whether you’re a fan of his distinctive line work or the messages conveyed, his legacy is undeniable and has helped shape our understanding of art today. During his short-lived career, Haring covered the streets of New York City with his iconic works, as much a pop artist as he was a social activist, advocating for safe sex and HIV and AIDs awareness. The work of Keith Haring is loved across the world, both for its bold, colourful aesthetic and its empowering and unapologetic message.
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