DSGN 264-406 Fall 2020 Blog
An artist that I’ve been following on Instagram just got commissioned to do a Rick and Morty Ident for adult swim! He works primarily with sculpture and 3d renderings of sculpture. Peep the video belowhttps://vimeo.com/468935925
Magritte and many other surrealists were inspired by Fantômas – a character known for being an extremely sadistic murderer. As per the Wikipedia description: “Fantômas is a criminal genius, ruthless and particularly elusive. As described by Schütt (2003) in her analysis of French crime fiction literature, Fantômas is the cause Read more…
In the midst of a chaotic pandemic, museums that have been running solely on funds and ticket fees faced a detrimental challenge as more people chose to cut out the unnecessary visit to public areas due to covid-19. This article explains that like many other museums, Brooklyn Museum has begun Read more…
Omar Apollo’s debut album came out yesterday and I really like the album art. Both the butterflies and the purple watery liquid are real! They were probably edited in photoshop but nonetheless, it’s quite impressive how still he is. He sat in the tub for quite some time while his Read more…
This insightful TED Talk reminded me a lot about Dunne and Raby’s Speculative Everything, the article our class read a couple of weeks ago. Like Dunne and Raby, JD Hooge urges designers to make meaningful differences in the world and uses the term “super power” as a metaphor for design. Read more…
I came across this interesting video of a What Design Can Do event. In this specific clip, Shihab-Eldin and van der Laken talk about what it is like to be a media activist and addresses a big range of issues like racial stereotypes on screen. The What Design Can Do Read more…
As we’re starting to incorporate colours into our new project, I just wanted to share a resource I have been using for a long time to generate colour palettes for my artwork. I personally find it difficult to randomly pick colours from the colour wheel and pushing them to harmonize, Read more…
Contemplating the concepts of the seen and unseen, humbled and inspired by the magical pulse of the natural world. Most of us are witnessing the vibrant and moody fall colors. These striking hues we see now are always there, just masked by the green pigment of chlorophyll. Jamie Scott spent Read more…
Raulino Silva Architecto built a hotel for pets in Parada, Portugal. As shown in the photos, this seems a lot nicer than most human hotels, and the accommodation for the dogs and cats are extraordinarily remarkable. I believe that when the pets are left alone at a hotel, they deserve Read more…
After having really enjoyed this week’s reading on the politics of design, I wanted to find more similar content, I stumbled upon this blog called “ethics in graphic design” that has a lot of great articles on how designers have addressed the pandemic, colorism in Bollywood, and the need to Read more…