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This is a cool video that combines animation and political discourse. Plus, it’s narrated by Jay-Z! https://nyti.ms/2jEO4BR

For this week’s blog post, I wanted to introduce my small business in honor of my new collection! innicco is an online store and blog that I started in my junior year of high school as a means of combining my interests of art and business. You can check it Read more…

Thinking about our upcoming project to make a college from found images, I wanted to share the work of a friend of a friend. She is a collage artist in Philly. You can check out some of her work on her instagram @avanialvarez Though she works in print mediums and Read more…

Has anyone noticed the new look of Messenger? They’ve ditched the classic blue color in favor of a vibrant gradient. People have noticed similarities between this new design and that of the Instagram logo. (Both apps are, of course, owned by Facebook.) As it turns out, this link is intentional, Read more…

Yayoi Kusama is a famous artists who is known for the whimsical nature of her art. Her art contains lots of color and lights. I have actually seen her art in a Korean museum once with my parents and it left an impression on me because I continue to keep Read more…

I recently came across this article by Nikil Saval that explores how design is a profession “most concerned with the future,” the boundaries of design, how artists have reckoned with the predicament of how to “design for the future when the future you are designing for will not exist,” and Read more…

Ray Wong is an designer who often posts his art to instagram. All of his pictures make really interesting use of typography and color, often letting the words become the art instead of just interacting with other images. https://www.instagram.com/designedbyray/?hl=en

I remember watching this youtube video awhile back. I’m not an expert so I can’t say that her claims are 100% valid, but she does a good job of explaining the differences between why we use RGB colors on screens and CMYK on print as well as some introductory information Read more…

Now that we started using color, I was reminded of the story of the “blackest black” paint. Although not what comes directly to mind when thinking of color, it’s a cool concept because it had to have been scientifically manufactured and does not appear naturally. It really portrays how technology Read more…

Pantone, or what I like to call the color cult, basically curates the universal standard for color in the design world, and every year, they release a Color of the Year. According to Pantone: “For over 20 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has influenced product development and purchasing decisions Read more…