DSGN 264-403 Fall 2021 Blog
Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist who knows how to push boundaries and challenge ideas. For the past 25+ years, he has used photography, sculpture, and images from sports, advertising, and popular culture to make his viewer sit up, pay attention, and think about the implications of each artwork he Read more…
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing.
This is an interesting short film about artist Tom Sachs’ studio.
How to Work Better’s ten-point list of simple statements suggests that “working better” is as much about an approach to everyday life as it is about productivity. The artists originally appropriated the text from a sign found on a bulletin board in a ceramic factory in Thailand nearly three decades Read more…
Here is an interesting short film made in 1977 by Charles & Ray Eames. They also designed some of these items that you may recognize….
This is a nice video describing degrees of abstraction in design and should be helpful…
Here is a video describing Gestalt psychology as related to design. This might be useful as we develop strategies for our first series of projects.
A quick breakdown of the concept of Semiotics: the study of how we derive meaning from stimuli in the world.
