Sonia Delaunay was originally born under the name Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Odessa, Ukraine. She was one of three children in an underprivileged family, so her mother chose to send her to live with her affluent Jewish uncle in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her uncle, Henri Turk, was a well-known lawyer that could…
This video was made in 2013 and a lot has changed in these past 6 years. Interaction design has taken has added newer roles to its tally of roles it serves. The whole video was about how interaction design in the past was treated to be about designing for mobile, but then by 2013 the…
Deborah Sussman was born on May 26, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York and passed on August 20, 2014 due to breast cancer in Los Angeles, California- a place where she often found her inspiration. Sussman attended various schools including IIT institute of design, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Art Student League, Bard College and Black Mountain College.…
Eddie Opara, a well-established designer whose work spans all 5 of the different practices we have learned, detailed “what the hell he does on a daily basis” and the hierarchy that fuels the intention behind his work in his lecture about many of his projects. His hierarchy lies in 9 different categories: neutral, variable, adaptive,…
Stuart Candy, in his lecture titled ‘To World a Better Design,’ describes his work with experiential futures. The sheer aspect of reality and its relation to design led me to become both intrigued and puzzled by the vast array of problems that design can solve. He led me to realize that a good designer doesn’t…
If a graphic designer is truly frustrated, there is always the option of simply using the work of earlier designers (now out of copyright!). Designer Unknown, Poster for LCD Soundsystem performance, Brooklyn, NY, 2017 The original is by Peter Behrens, Poster for AEG Metal filament bulbs, Germany, 1907
Jan Toorop (1858-1928) designed this poster around the same time as Henry Van De Velde finished his famous poster for Tropon. I got the two confused in my book American Design in 2008, and called Tropon (the product) a salad oil. It is not. It is a protein supplement derived from egg whites and came in…
Stuart Candy’s lecture was impressive. He was introduced as an experiential futurist. I was fascinated by the term “futurist”. He started off the lecture by putting forth the question “How might we design a better world?”. And then rephrased that into “How might we world a better design?”. The first part of the lecture was…
A typeface of every age or the monotone voice of the type world. The creation of Helvetica, originally called Die Neue Haas Grotesk, by Miedinger and Hoffmann sparked a queue of modernist type standard and of eventual controversy. In an age of reconstructing the design standard, Helvetica was birthed out of Münchenstien, Switzerland as a…