Latest Posts from Taylor Hartis

Wild Design – April

  While I was away at school, my Mom has been “revamping” the front porch of our home. When I came home the other day, I saw that she had added new house numbers beside our front door. We use to have our house numbers on a post in the front flower bed. The letters were…

Part I – Biography of Wolff Olins (Design Agency)

Wolff Olins is a global design agency that has been creating transformative brands with the goal to move organizations, people, and the world forward. Operating for over 50 years, they have been responsible for delivering strategy, design and change to help advance organizations in moments of inflection. Some of their organizations and partners include The…

The Film Before The Film: Carnivale (HBO)

In the Carnivale title sequence, there are lots of visual elements that are used to convey the mood of the show. Throughout the sequence, the visual elements smoothly transition back and forth between photography from the 1930s and religious illustrations and artwork. Including photos and archival documentary footage from the 1930s is important because its…

A Beautiful Sunday Spent In Umstead State Park

A Beautiful Sunday Spent In Umstead State Park The trail we chose to follow was the Sycamore Trail which was a loop trail and was about 7.2 miles long. At the start of the trailhead, you can tell that the environmental / park designers who were responsible for designing the areas and the many paths,…