‘Impulse’ Harvard Public Art Display

Impulse is a seesaw installation by a Toronto-based experimental design practice and a Montréal-based lighting consultancy. When students use the seesaws, lights and sound sequences are emitted to create art with the other surrounding seesaws using light and sound variations. This public art installation was made for the 25th anniversary celebration of Harvard’s arts program…

Art Made of Storms

Nathalie Miebach is an artist who took the data from tons of massive storms and translated it into sculptures. She uses beads that represent a weather element and can also be read as a musical note to create this magnificent sculptures. https://www.ted.com/talks/nathalie_miebach_art_made_of_storms?referrer=playlist-art_from_data#t-41137

Creating Art with Code

This website includes a few interactive examples of designs/art that can be made using algorithms and coding. The website HackerRank is a platform used for developers in which they can also use it to show their design/artist abilities. https://blog.hackerrank.com/creating-art-with-code/

Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore is is one of the largest and well know public art installations, as well as a very controversial one. This article explains some background information about the piece that some people may not be familiar with as well as what the original design was meant to look like. https://chronicles.roadtrippers.com/hidden-secrets-of-mount-rushmore/

Sunflower Seeds

An art installation consisting of millions of hand crafted Sunflower seeds made of porcelain. Although at first glance this may seem like an unusual but rather meaningless installation there is a deeper meaning to Ai’s piece relating to China’s Cultural Revolution. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ai-sunflower-seeds-t13408

Principles of Animation

Basically all the information you may want in order to start thinking about animation. The video goes through all 12 principles and provides drawn examples of how they work. A great starter video to thinking more about how to animate objects or characters for the viewer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4

Mapparium

During break, I made a trip up to Boston where I accidentally stumbled upon a building which housed a mapparium exhibit while trying to keep dry from the rain. This giant glass map installation is located in the The Mary Baker Eddy Library and is quite interesting if you find the time to stop in….

Process Behind Monsters Inc.

Most people have seen the animated film Monsters Inc, however probably never really looked into the process behind bringing the story to life. This website includes video clips and pictures laying out the process of character and world design used to put together a film like Monsters Inc. https://www.pixar.com/feature-films/monsters-inc

Art Palette Experiment

In relation to our discussion in class about the relevance of color palettes being very important to the appearance of a design, there is a super cool website that is dedicated to all the color palettes of thousands of famous works of art. You can either choose colors you want to see or randomize to…

Vintage Advertisement Art

Thinking about all the different forms of advertisement, as was talked about last week, I found myself wanting to search for more past advertisements and see how they differ from ours today, in an artistic sense. Here is a website that sells Vintage Food & Beverage Art and scrolling through you can easily see the…