Ricky Ricardo & Gloria Pritchett
Are Ricky Ricardo and Gloria Pritchett the only Hispanic American identities that people can relate with in today’s mass media? Continue reading Ricky Ricardo & Gloria Pritchett
New Shit!
NEW SHIT! is what we as society should be striving for. New SHIT! is what artists and designers are creating in order to evoke new changes. Continue reading New Shit!
25 Shades of Gray
Jessica Harrison Andrea, 2013 “In the particular lies the universal” – James Victoré Inspired by Victoré’s ideas and concerned with understanding the grey areas between art and design, I visited “Body & Soul: New International Ceramics,” an exhibition at the Museum of Art & Design in New York. Body & Soul contemplates the work … Continue reading 25 Shades of Gray
2030?
Scenario for the future. Continue reading 2030?
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Computer-Assisted Future
A response to Out of Hand, Materializing the Post-Digital Exhibition “Can they 3-D print a functional house or a car?” That was my first thought when I walked into Out of Hand, an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in NY. As I walked through the three-floor exhibition, this question was gradually answered. … Continue reading Computer-Assisted Future
Technological Dishonesty
I believe we are living in a time where authenticity is being defined by success. I consider important to make a statement about the known but ignore difference between authenticity and success. Technological advancements help most creations reach a mainstream point, especially social media. There is a lot of authentic creations in the web but … Continue reading Technological Dishonesty
A Bubble Inside a Bubble
As designers sometimes we live in a what I like to call a “bubble”. I consider this bubble to be one of our mechanism for escapism. We are friends with other designers, talk about fonts, talk about colors, talk about layouts and might forget about others problems/situations surrounding us. On the other hand we can … Continue reading A Bubble Inside a Bubble
Nostalgia = Design, Design = Nostalgia.
When they ask me, where do I think the design field is nowadays? The first word that comes to my mind is nostalgia. After the reading the Metamodernist Manifesto by Luke Turner and Defaults Systems in Graphic Design by Rob Giampietro the word became one of the synonyms in my vocabulary for design. I don’t … Continue reading Nostalgia = Design, Design = Nostalgia.
Design Goes Social: Negotiating the Intersections of Art, Politics and Community
The panel discussion focused on samples in which design was used for social innovation. Two main ideas are still intriguing from it. Is design becoming exclusively a tool for social change? Will “designers” be call something else in the near future? I know that only the future will provide these answers but in my opinion, I wish that the trend of social design becomes more than that. Not only I believe that designers should be innovators but also responsible for their surroundings. The other idea intrigued me from the conversation was the concept of “chance” in design. It is important to leave a space in your creative process for outside influences. External forces and ideas can change the purpose of a project.
Speakers:
Cynthia Lawson
Pablo Medina
Quilian Riano
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