DSGN 264-406 Fall 2020 Blog
While reading this article about what “programming art” was, it seemed like all the other articles I read about intersecting coding and art: how it was a novel idea with the potential of flourishing in this generation. However, I was taken aback when the author posed the question of whether Read more…
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/learnings-coding-artwork/ The article above contains a personal story and dialogue of experiences from an artist that has been creating one digital artwork every day for the past five years. I found this perseverance of creation to be amazing and it was very motivational to read through what the artist learned Read more…
https://pitch.com/ I recently got off the waitlist at pitch.com, a collaborative presentation software that is a lot like what Figma is to Adobe or maybe just the online collaborative version of Microsoft Powerpoint. I think the big differentiator for Pitch, though, is just how beautiful the design looks from the Read more…
These #vanlife and #vanconversion posts have been steadily crawling into my YouTube and Instagram feeds. For those of you that haven’t heard about it already, vanlife is this alternative lifestyle that allows a person or (oftentimes a couple) to live in a remodeled and customized van and travel the world. Read more…
Meet Zhong Lin. She’s a photographer from Malaysia and is currently in the middle of a 365 day art project. During the painfully boring quarantine she decided to embark on a picture a day series. Her work feels hazy but focused at the same time. The way she is able Read more…
https://delu.medium.com/i-spent-11-years-working-on-this-line-rider-track-96742fc0b709 A big throwback to a game that I remember playing in my childhood, but was super well constructed and an interesting project walkthrough from the original creator. The video within it is wildly entertaining as well, which I’ve linked here below for the sake of convenience – the explanation Read more…
https://alexanderklopping.medium.com/an-updated-daily-front-page-of-the-new-york-times-as-artwork-on-your-wall-3b28c3261478 A super interesting project that I found while browsing through my morning newsletters, and I thought it was a super interesting idea I’d love to try in the future. It also challenges what we think of as “art” that we can hang in our living spaces; why not a Read more…
Released in mid-October across theaters in Japan, the animated film from the manga and anime series Kimetsu no Yaiba breaks numerous records. Just after the release the movie has become the highest-grossing film in Japan for 2020 and placed as one of the top 6 highest-grossing films in the world Read more…
The painter Eva Juskiewicz developed a passion for portraiture as means of creating tension. Her art disrupts the current standards of beauty set for women. By forming subjects in her pieces with no face, it erases the current emphasis on the face and illuminates the woman’s other features. It’s this Read more…
I stumbled upon this article’s headline about shattering conservative ideas about beauty and immediately made a connection to Wangachi Mutu whom my artist presentation on. Like Mutu, Ewa Juszkiewicz uses a contemporary style of nonsensical juxtaposition to challenge her audience about what beauty really means. I love how she integrates Read more…