I'm Comic Sans.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html

A little obscene, but absolutely hysterical imagined monologue.

Appeel

An interesting piece, Appeel is a virus spreading through interacting individuals, it demonstrates the basic principles of interactivity largely reliant on people’s behaviour. A surface is covered by a large number of coloured stickers, positioned in a grid. People can remove stickers, leaving white spots in the layout, as a result individually and collectively changing the walls appearance. These stickers then take on a life of their own, as they spread, extending beyond the installation itself, infiltrating private space and merging the boundaries of public and private space.

A Little Insight

Until now, the focus of this blog has been unusual, eccentric, or intriguing accomplishments by other designers/ artists. Today, I offer a small insight into what I have been up to these past few months.

St. George Illawarra is an Australian rugby team known as the Dragons. In early March I began a redesign process for them as a Senior Project. This was one of the most intensive and difficult projects I have worked on during my years at Pratt, and needless to say I am rather proud of the outcome. I set out to redefine what a sports logo can look like, to shake things up a bit and produce something unexpected for this team. I think I've accomplished that, but you be the judge...

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Weird Internet Find of the Day

Featured today on Weird Internet Find of the Day is artist Kate Macdowell. Kate presents dead and decaying animals with anthropomorphic features--blurring the difference between man and nature in a state of destruction. According to her,

"In my work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment. These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops. They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones. In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world."

Personally, I think these are great. They're deeply creepy yet still beautiful, and they brilliantly illustrate a very controversial issue.

Hungry?

Brilliant. Part of me wishes I was badass enough to warrant such a cool business card.

Logo Process

Simply put, logos are the bane of my art school existence. I find them exceedingly frustrating and difficult to complete, and thoughts of the four I am currently struggling with keep me up at night. That being said, I really love looking at real designer's work with logos, and I find it especially helpful when they show their process and development of the logo along with the final product. Granted, this doesn't show the entire process, unless this person can make a banging logo in one go, but it's still rather neat.

Let the Sun Shine

After 31 days without it, Tropicana brings the sun to the arctic circle.