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Oct 29, 2011 • As a designer it’s important to have an online presence available for people who need to see your work and learn more about you as a creative. This is extremely helpful for those, whom you cannot meet personally to be able to get sense of your process, character and talent. Having a portfolio site is...
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Oct 25, 2011 • Satellite Collections incorporates a brilliant use of readily available tools and resources to create thought provoking statements on what is important in our physical and digital landscape. Jenny Odell has used Google Satellite view, available to anyone with an internet connection, and turned a tool made for navigation into a design program. Jenny cuts and...
I swam competitively from the ages of 10 and 18. What had started as a hobby grew into infatuation, and I soon discovered I was decent enough and liked it enough to pursue sprint races in freestyle and butterfly a little more intensely, but as I got older the pressures of improving my technical skill and cutting...
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Oct 20, 2011 • The Invention of Writing is one of the biggest Graphic Design activities there ever was. But very few people are aware— that is Graphic Design. When you are a Graphic Designer you will be referred to at least once as a Pixel Pusher— trying to tell you that you are not the person with the...
In 1990, a reflection piece in and of itself, Stewart Home campaigned an Art Strike. For three years, he encouraged artists to cease making art in an attempt to reevaluate their roles as artists and the implications of art in general. As he strayed from his Neoist past, his previous fascination with “plundering the past” lead him to the...
In my :: mumbles number of years :: pursuing design education I can recall quite a bit. I recall the few stand out projects that have become incredible teachers, the few stand out teachers that have become incredible friends, and definitely the few stand out friends that have become incredible projects… all of which made my all-encompassing...
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Oct 16, 2011 • I went to the Creators Project on Saturday and took some videos and pictures, here is a small recap of what was observed. Sorry for the lack of pictures and quality of the video. I was really in awe of everything and totally forgot to breakout my real camera to document what I saw. Here is a...
Roman Opałka, born on August 27, 1931 in France to Polish parents, began recording a progression of numbers beginning with one and having the end goal of infinity (if you can consider that an end goal). In 1968 Opałka took his process of counting one step farther by taping himself speak each number into the...
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Oct 12, 2011 • Fragmentr by Ryan Weafer allows users to upload any image to the specified grid, cropping images and pairing them with other unexpected images, randomized to create dynamic compositions and interesting textures. There has been approximately 1550 images created to date. Participants are asked “to select images that will combine in interesting ways: a variety of colors,...
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Oct 11, 2011 • Using a Java Application, Net Artist, Km Asendorf is exploring the boundaries of the “Unlimited Upload and Storage” usage agreement that Flickr claims for their Pro account members. In hopes of exploiting this claim, the artist is posting a small file of about 4KB, 3.600 times every hour. Within one hour, the total amount of...
PHONE ARTS is a collaborative project experimenting using the mobile phone as the medium to create unique and dynamic compostions. PHONE ARTS explores the the boundaries of the phone in its pursuit to create graphic illustrations and designs. This project is about seeing what you can create on your phone and relating to the designers backgrounds in Graphic Design...
While I was in school, a professor told me the story of a painter who had an odd system for creating compositions. This was early on in my school career and didn’t seem to help me much. I knew the story must be important as it was so interesting—
