At first glance, this looks it could be a mosaic or tiles. However, it is actually 13,689 digits of pi. The artist Marin Krzywinski assigned a color to the numbers one through nine and ordered the first 13,689 digits of pi into a wheel. When I think about how he could have done this, I…
Author: emilychen
Mapping Natural Disasters
This article reminded me of when in class we saw the wind map and how hovering over a certain area would reveal details such as wind speed, longitude, and latitude. In this image, it shows natural disasters occurring around the world and places met with the most devastation. With a combination of art and coding,…
Photos better than text?
I thought this article was really interesting because I run into this dilemma when I write our weekly blog posts. Sometimes, I write my text first before importing the picture, but visually it is unappealing to the eye to have a picture after text. In this article, the author states that description above an image…
Why hate comic sans?
I thought it was really hilarious in “The History of Typography” video when Ben Barrett-Forrest completely disacknowledged Comic Sans as a font. We always see jokes about it, so I decided to research why it is so disliked. Turns out, even the creator, Vincent Connare has only used it once. It was created on a…
Hand countdown
I was looking through the loading animations on the awwwards website and came across this one. It looked really simple to me and wondered why it was deemed special! Upon a closer look, I realized that the way the fingers are counting through 1-5 is unusual. When people count “1” the pointer finger is almost…
Animated Poster | Metro Metro Festival
I think the idea of moving posters is really interesting. It can show progression or in this case, perpetuity. I am curious to know how the artists achieved such a sleek design and color transformation. The colors in general are also unique and provide good contrast against the dark background, especially with the glean produced…
Evolution of Coca Cola Logo
In class, we saw the evolution of the Gmail logo and how it slowly evolves into its trademark design now. I decided to look into which logos are the most recognizable in the world and was unsurprised to discover that Nike and Coca Cola rank in the top spots. Coca Cola’s transformation from just a…
10 Years of the App Store
After watching the video about Susan Kare, I was curious about what other icon changes have been made amongst apps we still use today. I came across this page and noticed this timeline showing Facebook’s app evolution. I think it’s interesting how over time, the letter “F’ became more and more associated with Facebook. The…
The Museum
This particular piece of art stood out to me because of the eyeballs at the top of the image. In class, we talked about antonymic exchange and were instructed to post pictures opposite to what we saw on the screen. In this piece of art, we can see that there is one eyeball completely intact…
DSGN 264-401 | Fall 2020 