Posts

Showing posts from September, 2018

Good Design Bad Design

Image

John Hoke HW

      John Hoke's passion for his art reminds me of my old high school art teacher. Much like Hoke, he would doodle and take in alot from his surroundings for inspiration.

Animal Alien Abduction HW

Image

Niels Diffrient HW

                   Niels Diffrient is very passionate about designing objects. He almost fetishizes it in the way he speaks, for example, saying certain objects have a "romance" about them. It is amazing that so much can go into the design of a chair. So much so that the knowledge from engineering jet planes transfers easily into designing a chair according to Diffrient.

Another Photoshop Tutorial Thing

Image

Photoshop Tutorial Thing

Image

Bad Sign Design HW

  It is amazing how simple the concept of "design" can seem, yet it is very important in our everyday lives. We are such visual creatures and we navigate most of the world with the visual cues we see in ads, street signs, books, computers, etc. In essence, design is just another form of communication, and, as seen with the traffic signs in this article, a bad design can lead to dangerous miscommunication. This article shows that design is truly a meticulous art.