DSGN 264-403 Spring 2021 Blog
My personal favorite resource and source of inspiration is the Center for American Politics and Design’s database of campaign design. The site synthesizes all of the designs from Congressional, presidential, and gubernatorial races across the United States over the past 3 years. Users have the ability to filter designs by Read more…
People coped with lockdown in various ways. Some people made banana bread, others got addicted to TikTok. Ian Berry, on the other hand, remade his entire living room in recycled jeans. Titled “Lockdown Living Room” and currently on show at Museum Rijswijk in the Netherlands, Berry replicated his couch, plants, Read more…
I had so many ideas for my Dada Composition, but I also wasn’t sure about how to piece elements together. This was until I came across Blunt Action’s work, which showcases hazy, retro, metallic scenes. A trio that works across visual design, Blunt Action operates in the space of Neo-Surrealism, Read more…
I’m currently taking CIS460 (Computer Graphics) and our final project is to recreate Minecraft from scratch. In my typical fashion, instead of revisiting lecture material or things that will help me build the project, I decided to hop back 10 years and redownload the game. It’s wild how a game Read more…
As a nursing student, I am constantly bombarded by different health infographics in my courses and in the clinical and hospital settings. From a public health standpoint, I find infographics extremely effective in engaging an audience and imparting important information that can otherwise be difficult to represent quickly and clearly. Read more…
The other day I went for a run, and after I got back to my apartment and took off my shoes, I was thinking about shoe design. I looked at the shoes sitting by the door, thought about the design of each, and realized that they were all different, but Read more…
Let’s talk about the digital toolkit revolution — the trend in campaign branding to create an online database of downloadable resources and social media content. Digital toolkits are a device of young campaigns. The importance of social media has skyrocketed in recent election cycles, so campaign executives turn to digital Read more…
Mike Winkelmann, alias Beeple, is a newly minted multi-millionaire. This wouldn’t have been possible before the creation of NFTs. Beeple has been posting daily digital art images on since 2007. He has gathered 2 million followers on Instagram, and his bio reads, “art shit for yer facehole.” Still, his primary Read more…
I wanted to share this brief film on Firelei Báez’s artwork and the message she conveys about Caribbean history and the depiction of the female form. I think much of what she says about power relationships and how through her artwork, she is able to rewrite the narrative and retake Read more…
We’ve all seen 3D images, movies, and art. But, I personally have never heard of 8D or 9D music. Essentially, these higher “dimensional” music apply post-production processes to audio, giving it a different feeling. 8D music involves panning the audio from left to right, as if the sound were moving Read more…