9 Public Art Projects That Brought Beauty And Design To The Streets

Public art is a loose term we use to describe any art project — in any media — that has been designed and crafted for the public domain. Often located outside and always accessible to all, public art can take any shape or form, from a reflective bean to a giant rubber duck, because it’s…

Meet 6 Artists Who Have Swept Data Art into the Digital Age

We generate 2.5 quintillion – or 2.5 million trillion – bytes of data that record our online activity each day: an inconceivable amount. With recent advances in technology and over 4.2 billion people using the World Wide Web today, the volume of data being produced, collected and stored has never been greater.  As a raw…

Designer Lydia Cambron Transforms Brand Logos into Protest Messages

New York-based designer Lydia Cambron has been transforming brand logos into protest messages and sharing them on Instagram. Of the work, she says, “I was struck by the defensive reaction to the protests against police brutality, and the conversation that followed–how much disbelief there was towards individuals calling for equality and accountability, compared to the trust given…

Can graphic design save your life? — A brief history of the epidemic PSA

The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought unprecedented events to countries across the globe. with a significant proportion of the world’s population now in self-isolation or state-imposed quarantine, many people have referred to the effort required to combat the virus as ‘war-like’. Reminiscent of events such as the great depression, the first and second world war, and the…

15 Latest and Best Loading Animations to Make User Enjoy Waiting

Building on our talk in class about loading animations, I went on the internet to search for some inspirations and found this article which offers examples of loading animation, highlights and what we can learn from the designs. It’s also helpful for us to think loading animation as an important part of UI/UX design. Sometimes,…

10 Graphic Design Trends for 2020

Inspired by our talk in class about PSA Poster, I think it would be inspiring to look through the graphic design trends in 2020 and integrate them in the poster design. With the year 2020, graphic design trends have reached an important milestone. It’s the dawn of a new decade, and graphic design is poised…

Every song has a color – and an emotion – attached to it

Inspired by our Field Recording Gestalt, I searched some articles on the relationship between sound, shape and color. And I came across this article explaining the mechanism of how people perceive color when listening to different tunes. According to the article, sound is an audible color, and color is a visible sound. Many musicians believe that…

Talk to Me: The Evolution of Emoji

In this week’s video, Susan Kare talked about her design career as an iconographer, which inspired me to think about other design elements that I see everyday including emoji. Emoji has been used very often in daily communication since created, but little did I know about the design process and the team behind it. There…

Art and Empathy

Empathy is a term we hear a lot, but what does it mean and how does it work? Looking back through art history, we can find many moments when art has allowed us to share in the feelings of others. Here’s the video about Art and Empathy above. I would like to mention one of…

I Could Do That: Misconception about art

A work of art is special, which is not restricted by the law of value, but only affected by aesthetic value. Moreover, art focuses on the process rather than the result. Lastly, the value of the works of art is reflected in two aspects: the unique originality, and unique personal feelings of the artist. In…