Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Author: KC
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It feels like a beginning of a history. I had my first industry interview. It was for a summer internship with a small advertising agency. I recently read a book about advertising that said that times have changed where big firms are no longer economically feasible for most companies. This one is no exception. They…
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For today’s New Media project, my team and I are still working on the Boot Scouts idea. In the program’s resourceful fashion, we borrowed another team’s member to be our scout model. He looked rather dashing in the red scarf. The hat is all him and how wonderfully fitting for today’s photos hoot. We…
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This painting is for my dad. I admire how much he travels. He enjoys seeing the world. And he loves my paintings. This is for his birthday present. I think I’m getting a little better at these painting videos. I got a suggestion to explore some transitions where one thing transforms into another. I’ll have…
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(Above) Before and (Below) After Critique My team is designing a campaign for SCCA’s Summer and Evening Program. Though I’ve had my two cents for the other designers on this project on their assignments (we divided the work so that one of us does poster/print ads/web design– I got web design) my work has come…
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Design me a chair. What do you need or want from a chair? What is the average user of a chair? Size? Needs? Wants? Comfort? What is the maximum range of variety in these users? What can I design to fulfill most of their needs? This is user-centered design. Firstly, we are human. This means…
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Jakob Nielsen is the hypocritical guru of usability. Go to his site (useit.com) and you’ll see a list of blue underlined links that relate to his usability genius. His bud Donald Newman created the “desktop” metaphor and continues to emphasize user-centered design, but this website still looks like the 90s. (Good content, though.) Let me…
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The last project in Jill’s class involved collaborating with the first-years in the photography program next door. When they got the assignments back, they felt it was necessary to have a meeting about photographer-designer relations. Always in this program, we’re thinking, why didn’t you have this meeting before we started? But, I am beginning to…
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Above: My Sandwich Bag Box Design (front) During this critique session, Ashlee (one of my classmates) produced a beautiful matchsticks box. It was nostalgically decorated and had “To Build a Fire” by Jack London printed on the back of it. That really enchanted me. That piece of ephemera transported me for a moment to a…
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