Study design

As a small child I can imagine running around my living room pretending to be Britney Spears. I even have a picture of me, posing like Britney from the cover of her Oops!... I Did It Again album. But until this class I never considered the reasons behind album artwork. I always assumed artist had to have one. Of course, I have my favorite album artworks for my own bias and, sometimes, subconscious reasons; it’s time to analyze the artwork the artist made a choice to pair with their music. I…

Tara Donovan is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York who creates sculptural installation art pieces out of everyday simple objects, such as plastic cups, paper plates, pencils, straws, and polyester film. Donovan transforms these ordinary everyday objects into large-scale installations which in some cases create a depiction of nature resembling landscape scenes including, mountains glaciers, icicles, rocks, and more. When Donovan was interviewed by Daniel Comiskey, he asked her, “Why use…

before him the CD covers were photographic portraits bands or singers. Dwiggins The fourth is William Addison Dwiggins. He was a book designer from Cambridge, Ohio. In his opinion, he thought that if industrial machines also could produce fine design, no reason why new technology could not make it beautifully. He was interested in many fields,…

This week I spoke to Norax Ayala who’s work was displayed in the Merlino Gallery. She is currently finishing up her last year in the masters program for print making. She decided that she wanted to major in art right after high school. She had always had an interest in art, which her mother had some influence in. She is from Southern California and came to Long Beach for grad school. She has just recently moved to Anaheim as well. Norax likes her art to be abstract and figurative. To make her…

had and continues to have a huge impact on the design community. He had a few different careers before becoming a world renowned designer that we know of today. Growing up in Germany he was exposed to carpentry at a young age because his grandfather worked as a one and this defi nitely infl uenced his decision to become a carpenter when he grew up. He was very successful in this fi eld and he later branched off to both architecture and interior design in the beginning of the 1950s, was another…

something must be intended to play a certain role. 2: Designer’s design things with an intention for it to play a certain role. 3: Things that are intelligently designed must have a purpose. 4: Therefore, all things with a purpose must have an intelligent designer. Paragraph 1: (Note that my argument is valid, define and clarify any terminology that could be controversial.)…

Reilly Salness Art History Topic 1 Throughout the centuries, graphic design influenced society in a variety of ways. The influence evolved through the usage of posters, magazine design, concert posters, and music cover art. In the 1960’s young designers began to reject the social norms. They perceived their parents’ style to be outdated and developed their own style, psychedelia. This art movement with its distortions and bright colors drew its inspiration from the usage of psychedelic drugs…

Some of the advantages of a systematic design include: it encourages the advocacy of the learner; it supports effective, efficient, and appealing instruction; it supports coordination among designers, developers, and those who will implement the instruction; it facilitates dissemination of information;…

Godmother’s Awesomely Awesome Shoe Designs is a shop that customizes your favorite shoes however you want, from the plainest of shoes to the shoes of your dreams, from pink princess shoes, to dark rock shoes, and to the coolest Gucci shoes never found. The owners of the company are Cielo Valencia and Leann Patros and both of them work very hard on all the responsibilities for example Cielo takes the shoes, cleans them and gets them ready for Leann to paint and add the designs on the shoes then,…

The Ways Nature Affects the Workplace Human beings by design have an innate need to connect with nature. Currently, a growing number of companies are experimenting with “biophilic design”, which simply means incorporating a physical and ephemeral presence of nature within a space or a place. Biophilic design promotes the view of nature indoors, and can be as simple as incorporating a fish tank, having green or wooden walls, as well as featuring potted plants within a space. As a species, we have…