DSGN 264-406 Spring 2021 Blog
Pokémon are the nostalgic love of many who grew up playing the original games on GameBoys and Nintendo DSes. The sheer number of the cute, lovable, furry creatures – almost 900 of them – really makes you wonder how so many different unique designs were thought up. This article gives Read more…
Every since the pandemic and on-screen time has skyrocketed, I have tried to find keyboards that will reduce the amount of wrist pain I felt even after typing for an extended amount of time. Recently, I came across a keyboard brand called kinesis which had a unique structure and design Read more…
Have you ever considered how modern typefaces such as the one you’re reading right now, Arial, were developed? This brief stop motion animation summarizes these developments. As an example, one of the most popular typefaces of all time, Times New Roman, has a longer history than you’d imagine. Its name Read more…
I’m personally the (seemingly rare) owner of an Android phone, and one of my favorite features of the operating system is the depth of its customizability. One of the things that you can customize are the icons used to represent apps on the home screen – you can switch between Read more…
A few months back, as I browsed through Weibo (a Chinese social media app), I saw this trending topic of a mycologist going by the name Ye Wei Jun online (real name is Zhou Qingfeng), who is fascinated with microscopic fungi and organisms and dedicates herself in making time-lapses and Read more…
At one point during this course, I sat down and considered what design means. From what I gathered, design is the specific arrangement of elements that building relationships and create this completed look. Initially, it sounded far away from my own artworks I’ve down in high school where I doodle Read more…
One of the class I’m currently taking this semester is on Chinese fiction and drama. Though the course was mainly focused on the literary aspect of fiction and drama, I was given a brief introduction to the performance traditions that accompanied these plays in ancient times. One thing I noticed Read more…
As someone who does not follow closely to the latest haute couture collections and high fashion, my sole contact with the world of fashion design happens through the odd YouTube algorithm that brought the video for Balenciaga’s 2020 summer campaign into my recommendations. The summer campaign video opens in the Read more…
I saw a YouTube video recently deconstructing why higher frame rate is not necessarily good for an animation’s quality. The video basically was saying that feeding footage into an AI destroys the human quality of what makes hand-animated work so natural and creative. You can find a lot of videos Read more…
This past weekend, my friends and I drew on the ground with chalk. I highly recommend, although it was pretty messy. I think it was a challenge to draw with something so thick and imprecise as opposed to the typical art materials we use (pencils, markers) and especially when compared Read more…