My name is David Witt and I’m a Human Machine Interface and User Experience designer with over 30 years of design experience, technical production, and fine arts practice.
I've worked with color since the beginning of my career. Back in the 90s, I started out as a digital print designer and technical production artist working at Carmichael Lynch agency in Minneapolis. It was there that I learned prepress color correction from print color guru Dan Margulis.
Moving to New York to pursue my MFA in Design + Technology at Parsons School of Design, I was dissatisfied with existing color tools, and I wanted to find a better, more intuitive way to work with color on the computer and understand color at its deepest levels, so I began an investigation into color in the parallel worlds of art + science. I desired to create a more fluid way for digital artists to work with color and develop methods closer to the way painters work with color.
Amazingly, I found a way to integrate color theory and digital color in an entirely new paradigm. It became the basis for colormixing, the interactive color methods which I have used professionally and in my own fine art + design practice in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
I first started working on my Colormixer project in 2002, refining the methods and interface before launching an iPad app in 2012. After some initial success, I had to step away from it in order to focus on my family. Despite all of the advances in technology, these methods still remained undiscovered in the years since.
In 2024, something happened to bring me back to color, I was laid off after a hostile corporate takeover. I realized I had a golden opportunity, to revive my Colormixer project. This blog is part of my mission to bring color experience to the world, help artists and designers to better understand how to wield color, and chronicle of my work and play within the wide world of color.