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DSGN 264-403 Fall 2021 Blog
Design Collaboration Across Industries
Recently, I read an article about ex-Apple designer Sir Jony Ive getting hired by Ferrari to help the long-standing automative company design electrical vehicles. Jony Ive took leadership of Apple’s design team back in 1996 and has been a critical factor behind Apple’s success. He worked on numerous products, including Read more…
Authentic Brand Development – Fable and Mane
Fable and Mane, a brand launched in early 2020, sees siblings Akash and Nikita Mehta bring their Indian heritage and tradition to western consumers in a beauty brand. As an Indian myself, I am quite familiar with the practice of hair oiling, something many South Asians do to keep their Read more…
Bianca Wilson’s Cities
Since we have a project of the topic Imaginary City, I would like to introduce Bianca Wilson, an Australia-based artist. In her recent work, she explores architectural styles of different cities. She uses repetitive geometric shapes, such as rows of terrace houses and spiraling stairwells, to illustrate the city landscape. Read more…
Anklets by Sydney Simone
Many people are becoming entrepreneurs and creating their own things in our generation. One of those people is Sydney Simone. She launched her brand, “Simone The Label”, during the pandemic after realizing how attainable it was during an event she produced. Her hope was to design something artful and meaningful. Read more…
Hollywood’s House of Gucci
Recently, a new Hollywood film starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, and Jared Leto released depicting the rise of luxury fashion brand Gucci. Based on the true story, the movie shows how the Italian Gucci family was removed from the brand by investors due to fraud and overall just terrible brand Read more…
Another Korean Original Drama takes Over Netflix #1: Hellbound
Not long after Squidgame’s release, a new South Korean drama Hellbound is now the most-watched drama on Netflix. Hellbound is a dark sci-fi thriller that is made based on a webtoon–the webtoon is made based on an animation that the same director directed. This is an unconventional route for webtoons Read more…
Virgil Abloh, Influential Designer, Passes Away
Virgil Abloh, one of fashion’s most iconic designers and artists, passed away yesterday after battling cancer privately for years. Regardless of his condition, Virgil continued to innovate and push forward his work. Virgil was known for founding and running luxury brand, Off-White, and also being involved as the artistic director Read more…
NFT = Lunar Real Estate
Let’s say that you don’t have the asset to purchase a house on Earth right now. However, with that limited amount of money, you can easily buy some portion of land on the moon. What does it mean to buy land on the moon? You do have the address but Read more…
Artist’s Shit- Piero Manzoni (1961)
I find these artists’ work to be truly amazing because he managed to turn cans of his poop into $300,000 pieces of art. The only reason that this can even be considered art was that he canned it and decided to start calling it “Artist’s Shit”. He explained that art Read more…