The Importance of Typography & Good Design!

This is an interesting video about how the poor design of some cue cards for awards shows have caused announcers to announce incorrect winners. One of the most viral of these mistakes was at the 2017 Oscars in which La La Land was announced as winning Best Picture when in reality, the winner was Moonlight….

The Animation Process of Klaus!

While discussing different animation softwares today in class, I was reminded of a YouTube video that I had watched on the Netflix movie “Klaus” and how the animators used different techniques to create the beautiful end product. Instead of using CGI to create 3-dimensional characters, the characters were hand drawn and then lighting elements were…

Nathalie Miebach | Using Storm Data to Make Art

Artist Nathalie Miebach uses data that she collects (as well as some data from the internet) from storms to create intricate sculptures that represent the data. In her TED Talk, Natalie explains that her sculptures “reveal behavioral relationships that may not come across through a two-dimensional graph.” After making the sculptures, she then uses the…

How Netflix Uses Fonts

This is a fascinating article outlining how Netflix uses certain fonts to market its variety of shows and to communicate to viewers characteristics of the different shows. Netflix even released its own font in 2018, although the font used for the Netflix logo is still Graphique (designed by Hermann Eidenbenz in 1945). The article also…

Kerning & The Addams Family

This is a great summary/guide to some of the tricks and tips of kerning: A beginner’s guide to kerning like a designer Some points that I found the most interesting were: (i) certain letter combinations can be tricky to work with such as W or V + A, (ii) specific shaped letters (for example, rounded…

Loading Animations 101

It is interesting to think about the fact that loading animations should have the goal of being shown to the user for as short of a time as possible, yet there is a lot of thought and effort that goes into make a good loading animation. This article highlights some of the main considerations that…

Voting PSAs

While thinking about potential important topics to communicate for the PSA animated poster project, it is great to pull inspiration from the many voting PSAs that are flooding social media and the internet in general during these weeks before the election. This is one from Coca-Cola that I thought was engaging, fun, and would effectively…

Liana Finck | Relatable Cartoons

Liana Finck is a cartoonist/author that I have been following on Instagram for quite a while now, but it just recently dawned on me why her seemingly simple line drawn cartoons are so relatable. As Susan Kare explains in her artist talk, a realistic drawing of a face prompts the viewer to see someone else,…

The Loudly Crying Face Emoji

The Loudly Crying Face Emoji (😭); what does it mean to you? I have always thought about it as an Emoji that communicates sadness, stress, and other more melancholy emotions, but to some it is interpreted as a laughing so intensely that you start to cry (similar to the Face with Tears of Joy Emoji…

Apple iOS 14 | Customized Home screens

On September 16, 2020, Apple released iOS 14 for iPhone and iPod products. Among many new features that bring a “fresh look” to the devices is the ability to more easily customize your home screen with “widgets” that can be placed anywhere on the home screens in any shape or size (Apple). Many iPhone users…