I was very sad to hear of the untimely passing of Datamancer, a truly great Steampunk artist of great renown. If you’ve ever watched the Syfy television series Warehouse 13, you would have seen many of Datamancer’s creations at close range; the communications devices, keyboards and other electronic eye candy were made by Datamancer.

His deft hand and strong aesthetic have imbued many currently working Steampunk artists with a strong sense of the theatrical and the plausibility of the impossible. VALE Datamancer. An artist taken from this world too soon. Too soon.

This article sums up the genius of Datamancer