Clothes That Grow With You?!

On display until March 2020 is an incredible futuristic exhibit in the Philadelphia Museum of Art exploring the technological potential of the near future. Dreams envisioned include meat made of human cells and children’s clothing that can expand as they grow. If you have a chance when you are back in Philadelphia, Designs for Different…

By Mari Andrew

Author and illustrator Mari Andrew uniquely combines creative writing with lighthearted drawings and doodles. She uses Instagram as her main platform to share musings and thoughtful reflections on young adult life in New York City. If you haven’t seen her page, I definitely recommend checking it out! https://www.instagram.com/bymariandrew/?hl=en

Endangered Species By Pixel

Continuing a project that began in 2008, an Imgur user dubbed JJSmooth44 used updated endangered species data to visually represent the number of animals left in a given species by number of pixels. The fewer the number of pixels, the less animals in that species currently exist. It’s pretty incredible how a simple distortion of…

Eva Camacho’s Wearable Art

Inspired by her mother’s clothing creations and her father’s sheep tending, artist Eva Camacho crafts incredible wearable art made of wool, felt, and a special type of paper made out of mulberry tree fibers. As important to her as her art creations is her focus on environmental conscientiousness and she works to raise awareness of…

A Thanksgiving Opportunity for Public Art

This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (as long as it doesn’t get cancelled due to anticipated strong winds) will feature the work of a contemporary Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. The piece is called “Love Flies Up to the Sky” and is unique in its historical and cultural style. I think it’s really cool that this balloon…

Video Techniques and Advertising

Thinking about Project 2 led me to realize that so much of modern day advertising is rooted in key-framing and other cinematic techniques. This is a great example of video technology allowing Android to create an emotional video that sparked a long-lasting campaign. http://horseflygroup.com/best-commercials-of-all-time/together-not-android-got-right/

The Identity of a Traveler

Inspired by his travels as a sailor, Artist Bruno Catalano creates fascinating sculptures that highlight the nature of the immigrant, moving forward but always leaving something behind. The sculptures are always placed by a waterfront and beckon onlookers to reflect on the deeper significance of what it means to leave somewhere and continue life in…

LAX Kinetic Light Instillation

The upcoming public art installation project inspired me to look into public art in my home city, Los Angeles. I learned that the colorful lights I see every time I travel through LAX are an intentional piece of art, with the different arrays of colors representing different aspects of the city, from its identity as…

Melissa Capasso’s Artwork

Melissa Capasso does a really interesting job working with a lot of the concepts we talk a lot about in class. She uses bright compound colors and her pieces all play with directionality and building compositions out of smaller shapes. https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2019/10/melissa-capasso-good-vibrations.html#comments

What We’re Missing When We Text

Photographer Eric Pickersgill creatively photoshopped phones out of pictures to highlight how phones draw our attention away from our surroundings and potentially meaningful moments into small handheld screens. I thought this was a really interesting use of graphic design software to convey a really strong message about how hard it is to live in the…