
You know what Excel is, right? Â That wonderful Microsoft product for creating spreadsheets has been around quite awhile. Â It’s quite useful for calculating totals and making graphs – and for making beautiful artwork.
For today’s Fun Friday post, I want to share with you the masterpieces of Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year-old man who uses a software program designed to crunch numbers for a completely different purpose – drawing. Â Horiuchi uses the autoshape feature in Excel to fashion these amazing pictures, and even won an art contest in 2006 for his designs. Â You can read more about Horiuchi here.
What I like about Horiuchi’s work is that it is a prime example of one of the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. tools that we teach our gifted students – “Put to Another Use.” Â I’ll warrant that not many of us have opened an Excel spreadsheet and thought, “This would be a wonderful media for creating art.”
Now if I can just figure out how to make Microsoft Paint balance my checking account…