Featured Image Courtesy of Eamesoffice.com The “Powers of Ten” was a very well known short film created by Ray and Charles Eames which has been used as a teaching tool for understanding the importance of scale through the system of exponential powers. The film was based on Kees Boeke’s 1957 book, Cosmic View: The Universe…
Featured image Courtesy of Eames.com This was the first of the Eames’s plywood series and it was the Lounge Height (L) Side Chair (C) on Wood (W) Base released in 1945, created by both Charles and Ray Eames, and referred to as “the chair of the century” by Time magazine. It was created out of…
Featured image courtesy of americanwomenartists.org Ray Eames was born as Bernice Alexandra Kaiser on December 15, 1912 in Sacramento, California. She focused her early passions on illustration, poster art, art anatomy, and art history while attending Sacramento Junior College. Wanting a school that treated the arts more seriously, she left to attend a progressive liberal…
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End begins its game with an opening sequence that has various design elements that are telling of the themes and ideas that will be present throughout. The sequence’s visuals, typography, and use of lighting all set the stage for what kind of game Uncharted 4 is. The entire title occurs within…
The font Bree was designed by TypeTogether founders Veronika Burian and José Scaglione who created the company to release new innovative types of typography into the market. This font in particular was released in 2008 and received a big new update in 2019. This update edited and added new shapes as well as new weights…