Selections by Jan Robert Leegte

Jan Robert Leegte’s Selection is for the real abstract internet heads out there. 

Inspired by the selection tool found in most image editing software (you know, the one that highlights areas of an image using an animated dotted line, see above), Leegte has created an entire collection of interactive websites that focus on the simple elegance of this tool. 

If that sounds exceptionally niche, it’s because it is.

The visuals are probably best appreciated by GUI geeks, with most of the variety coming from the chaotic dotted outlines and different color backgrounds. 

And that’s exactly what the artist’s fans have come to like, as shown by his various sellouts of similar-looking love letters to internet interfaces over the years. It might not be your cup of tea, but there’s clearly an audience for it.