Public art in nature

One thing I noticed during the public art lecture in class was that the examples all seemed to be in similar, urban settings. Where I’m from in Colorado, however, the most common public art I saw growing up was in nature. As a result, artists limited themselves by not using any artificial materials or anything…

Landscape / soundscape

There’s an exhibition at the Arthur Ross Galley right now called Landscape / Soundscape in which photographic landscapes are paired with soundscapes. This is not only relevant to project 1.1, and the concept of how to visualize sound, but is also useful for shedding light onto our current project, and how to visuals and audio…

Design for political action

I came across this article in Wired this week. The article discusses how design can be used for political action, and what designers can do to help tackle some of the problems facing America today. This seemed particularly relevant given our critique last Monday – especially since so many people in the class chose to…

East vs. West

Yang Liu, a graphic designer from Beijing, created this series of pieces about the cultural differences between the East and West. When I saw this article online, it immediately reminded me of the current project we’re working on, but I also found it really interesting to see complex cultural differences expressed in minimalist design.

Visualizing data

I saw this piece on flowingdata.com about how one set of data can be visualized in different ways. The author gave some criticisms of some of the charts, but also offered tips on how best to visualize a set of data. This article was really interesting to me because of the vast variety in how…