DSGN 264-403 Fall 2020 Blog
Design is present in every aspect of our lives, and it not only fulfills an innate aesthetic inclination but also conveys what words sometimes cannot, making it a keystone player in all fields. Initiated by the the World Design Organization (WDO), IBM Design, and Design for America (DFA), the COVID-19 Read more…
I’ve always loved nature so I have always had a passion for sustainability. But this passion really took off when I started diving in high school and had the opportunity to dive the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. This was when I witnessed first-hand what true destruction of nature looks Read more…
The new Sound Analysis project reminded me of another creative medium, data visualization. While data encompasses a lot of things that aren’t sound, I think it’s interesting to see the ways these data artists use design-based thinking to interpret images from non-visual things like numbers and statistics. Their techniques and Read more…
This article by Rachel Wetzler explores the phenomenon that realism becomes popular as an art style in times of economic crisis. While I’d learned about or seen Gustave Courbet’s works, Millet’s The Gleaners, etc., I hadn’t really thought that this tendency to depict un-glamorous labor would be applicable to our Read more…
Agnes Denes reminisces on creating “Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule—11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years,” a collaborative bioremediation artwork and a human-made virgin forest in Ylöjärvi, Finland. www.agnesdenesstudio.com
A presentation by Aggie Toppins – CAA 2020. www.aggietoppins.com/
How does design shape society? In this film, artist Mika Tajima traces the legacy of the influential Action Office furniture line—developed by Herman Miller—and how it serves as the inspiration for her own work. Introduced in 1964 and still in production today, the Action Office is a modular and customizable system of semi-enclosed cubicles. www.mikatajima.com
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…
Laurie Anderson Interview: Advice to the young. Explore her VR installation “Chalkroom”….
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing.