In honor of the Tiny Monuments project, I found a great New Yorker article that includes interviews with several members of the Monument Lab, which is based out of Penn. The article discusses monuments in America and the figures they commemorate. In a lot of these cases, these are confederate Read more…
I found an installment that, using data as an input, creates a unique (and in my opinion, quite hectic) audiovisual. This stood out to me because it seems to combine the intervention project and the data visualization project. Other iterations of this project can be found on the artist’s website
I stumbled upon this designer who manipulates digital footage in an attempt to play with the viewer’s perception of space and time. In his video “Phantom Ride” he does this through taking the viewer through may different scenes on a train track, making it as if they are experiencing (in Read more…
In response to the pandemic, it appears that some museums have had to sell important pieces to deal with financial pressures. This article offers an alternate perspective, where the Baltimore Museum of Art, which was not struggling financially, deaccessioned three paintings to advance salary increases across the board, invest in Read more…
This is only tangentially related to class, but last night I was watching Casino Royale and really enjoyed the intro animation. Personally, I thought the casino/poker motif and the intricate moving parts were cool.
I was procrastinating work by scrolling through YouTube and found a recent video that ties into our discussions on how it’s difficult for design to be neutral. This rather eerie video talks about how an anonymous conspiracy group QAnon has adopted a seemingly innocent pastel Instagram aesthetic to communicate absurd Read more…
Recently, upon seeing the Met’s “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” exhibit, a visitor realized that her neighbor had one of the panels that had been missing from the series since 1960 in her living room. The neighbor apparently bought it at an auction in the 60s and has handed it Read more…
After having really enjoyed this week’s reading on the politics of design, I wanted to find more similar content, I stumbled upon this blog called “ethics in graphic design” that has a lot of great articles on how designers have addressed the pandemic, colorism in Bollywood, and the need to Read more…
I was browsing online and came across this article that has helpful advice on designing icons. One tip I found interesting was to avoid using an excess of symbols that suggest movement; they author jokingly says “do not make it a game of Pictionary,”
When browsing Artsy.net, I stumbled upon this piece by an artist named Jenny Holzer (https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jenny-holzer-top-secret-32). Given it is a black and white and only consists of geometric shapes, it reminded me of the sound project we are working on. I think it’s interesting how we can see a collection of Read more…