DSGN 264-406 Fall 2021 Blog
Leo Villareal is an American artist known for his illuminated installations. With LED lights and some computer programming, he is able to create complex and rhythmic pieces of art. Here is one of his light sculptures, featuring 23,000 LEDs working in harmony: Here are some more of Villareal’s amazing light Read more…
Emily is a recent college graduate who majored in design and is now using her skills to redesign and revamp the logos of major corporations. Her designs have gone viral and have taken the world by storm with many brands adopting and using her new logos. Here is an interview Read more…
As we enter into the new era of Web 3.0, internet users are seeing an incredible rise in the popularity, value, and demand of digital items in the form of NFTs. Digital fashion has not been excluded from this phenomenon as we saw in the sale of the ‘Baby Birkin’ Read more…
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly advanced, and as its capabilities increase, so does its potential applications. Recently, machine intelligence has creeped into the music industry. A couple years ago, Intel used artificial intelligence to create the official beat of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The AI was trained with numerous pieces Read more…
Sustainable packaging is packaging that is sourced and developed in a way that is environmentally friendly and does not contribute to pollution or the depletion of natural resources. As the world becomes more environmentally conscious, more consumers have begun to push for their favorite brands to adopt more ethical and Read more…
Synesthesia is the perceptual phenomenon where individuals’ sensory pathways are “linked” in a way that experiencing a stimulus in one sense, such as hearing a sound or touching an object, would also simulate a different sense. Two forms of synesthesia that I find particularly interesting are grapheme–color synesthesia, which individuals Read more…
Raspustilsya Sans, or “unraveling threads” in Russian, is a display font created by designer Dina Issayeva as part of the exhibition Go For Quality. The font is intended to highlight the fashion industry’s overuse of synthetic materials and their byproduct, microfiber pollution. Microfibers are non-biodegradable small plastic fibers that are Read more…
Back in August when I was scouring the internet for room decor inspiration and different artwork to hang on the walls, I rediscovered an art style that I had seen before but hadn’t truly looked into: one line art. These art pieces create faces and bodies using fluid lines that Read more…
Climate change is a real threat, and Danish artist collective Superflex knows this. In an effort to warn the public of this impending threat, Superflex uses ironic humor to convey the idea that rising sea levels could at some point result in “interspecies living”–meaning one day we will live amongst Read more…
The new Minecraft 1.18 update is coming out in 2 days, and it’s a complete re-haul of the old world generation. Mountains are steeper, caves are deeper, and every biome generally looks a lot more realistic and unpredictable. Designing an algorithm to produce a perfect balance between the core Minecraft Read more…