Tomer Hanuka

Tomer Hanuka was one of the featured artists this week on booooooom.com. He’s an illustrator and cartoonist (or as his website says “comics artist”) who’s created work for clients such as Sony, GQ, and Nike. I was really amazed by some of his work that was a depiction of different lifestyles and realities as well as…

Self-Proclaimed GIF Queen

  I stumbled upon Julie Winegard’s Tumblr after forcing myself to procrastinate while doing make-up work (since I hadn’t seen anything cool while doing Writing Sem outlines–lowkey shade). Thankfully I did find it because I feel like it combines two of the things that drew me into wanting to learn design: (1) animated GIFs that were…

Swans by Mike Fields

The paper folding project has had me thinking about the time in fourth grade when we read that book about a girl with leukemia who folded a thousand swans in order to make a wish. When we did the initial paper folding, before we got into the thick of Processing, I also tried making a…

humble

Though not his strongest song lyrically, I was floored by the visuals in Kendrick Lamar’s new music video, “Humble“. I am beyond happy that musicians are going the next level with their music videos and understanding that commentary can be made not only through words but also through the images that you pair with them. The…

Korean Graffiti x BGM

In the fall of 2016, Korean graffiti artist Chris Chanyang Shin started receiving international internet attention for his murals of African American women in traditional Korean hanbok. he has traveled the world creating these murals, one of the latest spots as of October 2016 being in San Francisco. He has also painted other murals of African American…

The Getty Museum

I had read about the Getty Museum for the first time on a SAT Reading Comprehension test and honestly never thought I would get to see it. Over break, I had the pleasure of walking up (and down) the large hill to the Getty Museum. Granted I spent most of my time in the garden,…

Academy Award-Winning Animated Short: Piper

  Trailer I recently had the opportunity to visit Disney HQ in Burbank, CA where I learned that not only had Pixar been acquired by Disney, but also that they had also won an Oscar in this past awards cycle. The idea behind the award-winning Piper stirred from the writer and director, Alan Barillaro, quite…

The Return of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers

Trailer can be found here  In case you’ve been living under a rock (or for some reason are not into the Power Rangers), you might have missed that Lionsgate is producing a live action version of the classic cartoon Power Rangers. It comes out March 24th and despite the questionable editing/acting in the trailer, it looks…

Forest of Numbers

The National Art Center of Tokyo commissioned French artist Emmanuelle Moreaux, who is Tokyo-based, to transform their Special Exhibition Gallery room. Moreaux decided to  use the space to create a vibrantly-colored numbers wonderland. The “Forest of Numbers” contains 100 colors and symbolizes the next 10 years. Over 60,000 figures (numbers 0-9) were used to create…

JAMES TURRELL: The Light Artist

In my class, we were talking about how modern artist used space in their images, in particular when using linear perspective. Our teacher took a brief second to discuss James Turrell and how he uses different contemporary mediums (in this case colored light) to defy the eye and it’s perception of space. For example, when…

The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

I had the pleasure of stopping by the Institute of Contemporary Art (36th and Sansom) and seeing their newest exhibit on African American art and music from the late 1960s until now. While most of the exhibit was based on the jazz movement in Chicago, it beautifully and perfectly exhibited the art, music, and history…

The Collaboration No One Wanted: Supreme x Louis Vuitton

What went down at the LV Paris Winter show.