DSGN 264-403 Spring 2021 Blog
As I was brainstorming and researching ideas for how I want to direct my ‘Alternative Clock’ project, I came across David McCandless’ Information is Beautiful website. McCandless turns complex data sets into beautiful and simple diagrams that allow us as viewers to perceive patterns and connections that might not be Read more…
Album cover designs get discussed a lot more than book covers. (Which is totally fair. They are way more interesting in general.) Still, you might be surprised by how much book covers vary depending on edition and translation. Take this cover for the novel Umami, by Mexican author Laia Jufresa. Read more…
This is a far cry from the usual political design work I post about, but I wanted to write about Taylor Swift’s album rebranding. For those of you who haven’t been on Twitter (or any social media, frankly) lately, Taylor Swift re-released her old album Fearless with both re-recorded and Read more…
I came across this article on a trend going around where you can answer 12 questions and discover what color your personality is https://www.creativebloq.com/news/viral-personality-colour-quiz. Based on what color you get, you get a description of your personality as well as your compatible colors. It’s based on Don Lowry’s True Colors Read more…
I waste a lot of time mindlessly scrolling through apps like Facebook and TikTok, but once in a while, a cool video will appear that grabs my attention. Here are two of them that I’ve stumbled across recently. Earlier, I saw a video of this person named Giovanni Contardi making Read more…
Brand consulting firm Landor & Fitch recently created a unified brand for Lumos, a program that provides data and insights on the patient journey through the health system in New South Wales, Australia. While data and figures are important, the way they are presented are just as important. This is Read more…
After working with the frame animation and video timeline tools in Photoshop, I was reminded of a YouTuber I used to follow consistently called Andymation. He makes a bunch of flip books, which are just booklets of static images that gradually change from one to the next. When you flip Read more…
In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund and Yoshiyuki Mikami created a campaign using photos of endangered species where every pixel represented one animal left in the wild. More recently, Joshua Smith, a programmer, released a new series with updated figures (sourced from the Animal Planet endangered species list). These images Read more…
In a short period of time NFTs have already dramatically changed how we view digital design. Here’s an article explaining NFTs in more detail, which I found to be super helpful https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56371912. While reading about NFTs, I was surprised to learn that there are many concerns over their environmental impacts. Read more…
Someone showed me this game recently, by Nicky Case. It seems to be a simple, web-based game about taking photographs of the characters. This game, although simple in its art style, hints to a deeper meaning. Although I’d certainly exercise caution before playing, just because it does depict some especially Read more…