Nice Friendly Tulips

Nice Friendly Tulips was a digital art project critiquing Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Nice Friendly Tulips were procedurally generated images inspired by 17th century Tulip Mania, an economic bubble where cliques of rich investors bought tulips bulbs for wildly inflated prices despite them having no intrinsic value. Many people hoped to be able to sell the bulbs later for higher prices, however since the market was entirely made of other tulip bulb investors, it eventually crashed.

Each Nice Friendly Tulip image in the project contained a random combination of dozens of individually illustrated elements, created by me. So, there were tens of thousands of unique possible combinations.

The project allowed participants to view and save a randomly generated tulip image entirely for free and then use it however they wished.

Here’s a video of my computer making some NFTs! (That’s Nice Friendly Tulips):

I also ran a Kickstarter Campaign as part of Kickstarter’s Make/100 event to create 100 art prints, allowing participants to have their own unique work of art at a low cost, which Kickstarter selected as a ‘Project We Love’!