Face Cages

Face Cages is an installation and performance artwork by Zach Blas and features other artists micha cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. It explores how computational biometric diagrams reduce the complexity of human faces and how biometrics can lead to policing and discrimination. The way Zach Blas explores how data can discriminate reminded me…

Artists Who Turn Data Into Art

On Medium, I found an article that listed six artists who are turning data into art projects: Golan Levin, David McCandless, Natalie Miebach, Aaron Koblin, Chris Jordan, and Oscar Sharp and Ross Goodwin. Of the six, I particularly liked Natalie Miebach’s artwork and thought that it was really relevant to our data portrait project. This…

Negative Space in Typography

Sander Flink, a Netherlands-based designer uses negative space in a creative and clever way in his typography. I thought that the way he incorporated images that relate to the word in the negative space between the letters was really interesting and made me think about how designers could get creative with typography. Here is the…

New York Times Article: “Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How”

I came across an article on the New York Times that shows how masks work to limit the spread of the coronavirus. I wanted to share this article because I really liked how the design was interactive and dynamic. This article also serves as a public service announcement and because we often learn and understand…

Townscaper, An Island City Construction Game

On June 30 this year, Oskar Stålberg released Townscaper on Steam. Townscaper is a game that allows users to build and design cities or towns of their liking. When I saw this game, I was immediately reminded of Calvino’s Invisible Cities. I remember seeing that other people in the class wrote blog posts about how…

Si Tran’s Dynamic Posters

I was looking at design inspiration on Behance and I came across these dynamic poster designs by a Vietnamese graphic designer, Si Tran. I especially liked how this designer used fluid movement and multiple layers to create designs that I thought were fun and eye-catching and at the same time, not too overwhelming. This is…

Design as an Act of Future-Making

This article discusses how the Designs for Different Futures exhibition, organized by the Walker Art Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, features designs that are meant to shape the future by questioning what kinds of futures we want to build for ourselves. This reminds me of our reading of Speculative…

Global Warming Countdown

Metronome, a digital clock in Union Square in Manhattan has been reprogrammed by two artists, Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd, to count down the time remaining until the effects of global warming become irreversible. This public art project reminded me of what Dunne and Raby called “critical design” or “dark design” in Speculative Everything because…

The Art Basel Banana

I remember that in class, one of the communication model reading questions that someone asked was related to how artists were able to predict how their audience received their work if every person’s individual experiences influence their interpretation of the work. This question made me think of Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, in which Cattelan duck-taped…

Do Ho Suh’s Exploration of Space and the Longing of Home

In his fabric installation, The Perfect Home II, Do Ho Suh recreates the memory of a home that he has since left behind. By building this 1:1 scale model of his old apartment in New York City, which he has lived in for 19 years, Do Ho Suh uses the exploration both physical and intangible…