Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Author: KC
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Last night, I attended my first Seattle Information Architecture & User Experience Meetup. A big thanks to Misty Weaver, @meaningmeasure, for hosting. It was nice seeing familiar faces, my ol’ web design teacher, my technologist mentor and fellow alumni and precious students from Seattle Central Creative Academy. This was part two of a two part meetup. An encore…
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Today, I went to a graphic design internship interview. It’s been a while since I’ve interviewed, the last time being for the job I currently have, but I thought an internship would be nice to get some new skills and experiences under my belt with the 15 or so hours a week I have to…
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I was just going through one of my color boards on pinterest (color2.) and I wanted to make some palettes for easy use when projects come up in the future. I love this collection. I think color combinations can communicate a lot. The interesting life of a graphic designer. We treat color palettes and fonts…
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Did you know that they leave scientists in charge of the covers for science journals? Sometimes, they turn to graphic designers and explain to them how a thing works so they can depict it in a catchy image. I am one of such graphic designers. I’m still a little astounded that I had to make…
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I made this painting today. It’s a present for someone’s 85th birthday. After finding out her favorite flower is a chrysanthemum, I bought this lovely bouquet of flowers from Trader Joe’s and made this. I’ve been thinking about patterns. Especially organic and imperfect patterns that have a certain flow to them as if they are…
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I recently got a haircut and a new job and I felt it was important to update the ol’ portfolio. I previously directed the user straight to my UX projects page. This made the navigation confusing for them because they didn’t realize that they were already in a subsection of the site immediately after arriving.…
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Holiday Card Design 2013 from Katarina Countiss This year I wanted to get away from the classic iconography of Christmas. I have been influenced by my new job at a technical bookstore, lots of math and science inklings floating around inside my head. Fragments of knowledge starting to rise to the surface as I revisit…
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About – What Would I Say? Facebook App There was this time when I interacted with this website. It combs your Facebook statuses (stati?) and then spits them into this false amalgamation and the results are nearly poetic. I stitched together the output of this Facebook app. I thought it was an interesting experience to…
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