DSGN 264-406 Fall 2020 Blog
The anticipated fourth and final season of the Attack on Titan anime was released today. The long-awaited series finale will close the anime that is based in a time that takes place sometime after the end of Season 3. The anime is topping the charts to being one of the Read more…
One novel thing that quarantine has made a lot of us do is take up interesting hobbies, including many different art forms. One trend that I have seen popping up in the past couple of months that I was never really aware of before was tufted rugs, where loops of Read more…
While working on our recent Data Portrait projects, I was reminded of this fashion collaboration from 2004 between Japanese artist Aya Takano and fashion designer Issey Miyake. Takano is a Superflat artist, an art school founded by Takashi Murakami that combines elements of manga in their work. Issey Miyake is Read more…
In honor of the Tiny Monuments project, I found a great New Yorker article that includes interviews with several members of the Monument Lab, which is based out of Penn. The article discusses monuments in America and the figures they commemorate. In a lot of these cases, these are confederate Read more…
Made around 12,600 years ago, the piece contains tens of thousands of animals and humans on this eight-mile rock. Stretching along the Guayabero River in the Colombian Amazon, the piece encapsulates numerous types of animals. Those animals include drawings of large mammals, birds, fish, lizards, handprints, and masked figures of Read more…
Getty Website, a website for art lovers, replicates the Spotify “Wrapped” list for their art pieces and artists in 2020 year. On the top of most viewed artwork for the 2020 year was the famous piece of “Irises” by Van Gogh. His story is fascinating because of the mental illnesses Read more…
While the iPhone 12 has just been released, there is news that the iPhone 13 design has already been leaked. It is not surprise that the iPhone 13 is already on its way and with a few changes such as a smaller notch size, re-implementing Touch ID, and changing camera Read more…
A discussion from class we discussed how nature is often combined with art, but is it art or just an excuse? Today I crossed upon AZULIK Uh May. It claims to combines art, nature, technology and ancestral wisdom. Eduardo Neira is the founder and designer of the resort AZULIK and has Read more…
After watching Laurie Anderson’s Advice to the Young, I was curious about her works of arts. I’ll attach a few links, but her art is shocking to me. I wasn’t expecting this side of art at all. Like many artists we’ve come to learn from the Artist presentations, her art Read more…
Videographer Catherine Gund grew up in a wealthy Mid-Western family but spends her time and money on her dedicated activism for AIDS. As she grew up in the 1980’s she came out as queer at about the same time as the AIDS epidemic began to expand. Through her mother, she Read more…