What Is Interior Design (And Why Can It Really Make You Feel Better)?

Everyone has to some extent designed their own room, or at least the orientation and the things that go in it. Reading this article reminded me that there truly is a lot of research that goes into design and that design can have implications that aren’t obvious. For example, the article talks about how interior…

10 Steps to Becoming a Sneaker Designer

This Black Friday I looked around on the internet and various shoes jumped out at me, and made me curious about sneaker designs. One thing this article mentions is talking about the difference between sketching and drawing. The article defines drawing as recreating something you see onto paper, while sketching is designing something you don’t…

Data Visualization

Thinking about our upcoming project regarding collecting and representing data, I found this article that talks about different ways to represent data. Although the article is kind of long, I found the “Style” section in the middle the most helpful , where it talks about how using colors and shapes can be used to represent…

The Art of the Vote: Who Designs The Ballots We Cast?

This article is about how ballots are designed, who designs them, and the effects they can have. One thing the article mentioned is how changing one design element to fix a potential problem can create a new problem. In the 2000 presidential election, Florida increased the font size on their ballots for older voters, but…

5 Ways to Design Thinking in Your Daily Routine

One thing the article mentions when thinking about your design is empathizing with your audience. I think that’s especially important when designing our PSA’s because we’re trying to push for change, and understanding/empathizing their thoughts/behavior leads us to think how to make our designs most effective. Click here for the article

Keep ‘em waiting: 7 loading page designs that make waiting (almost) fun

Thinking about our Looping Loading GIF, this article gave me some insight about how designers plan waiting spaces. One thing that the article mentioned that stood out to me was that sometimes it can be better to have the loading design present longer than the page actually takes to load. An example is that Turbo…

Grabbing Visual Attention with the Visual Cortex

One thing this article talked about was how small simple things can grab the attention of our audience such as one different color, one object that’s larger, or something that’s a different orientation. However, combining too many of these elements in fact makes things more confusing and harder for something to stand out. For my…

Conceptual Graphic Designs Every Designer Needs to Know

With starting a new project in class, I wanted to look into some things to consider before diving right into your work. One thing I thought was good to read was that when you’re brainstorming, just generate as many ideas as possible. It doesn’t matter whether the ideas are “good” or “bad”, because you can…

Inspiring Everyday Graphic Design

Reading the excerpt by Meredith Davis, it made me think about how culture and societies evolve to focus on new stimuli and the next big thing. There is a section in this article that talks about forgotten album covers, and how although now they go largely unnoticed, they can bring some inspiration. It made me…

How To Use Positive And Negative Space To Create Better Painting

Click here for article In learning about positive and negative space, one thing that I was introduced to in reading this article was using color to create a blending effect between the two. Previously I thought of positive and negative space as two distinct (and opposite) things, but this article showed me that positive and…