Art Collective
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 being pushed by a gentle breeze. This was a fun challenge because I needed to make the elements stand out from the complex background.
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. All of my pages had the “logo squares” representing each project and it felt a little impersonal and the photo needed updating on the resume page. I took new photos and included a pencil because I think of it as an important tool that I use and I think it would be fun for people to realize that even after all this computer program learning, I start with a pencil every time. The current layout creates some weird negative space and I’m not sure how I want to deal with it yet. It’s like a Canadian flag. :/ Which is not a bad thing really. There’s a sense of evenness and you want to focus in the middle.
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 cravings of a technical mind, though there is still some nonsense to be had. This is what comes out. A motif arises, a friend refers to it as little target logos or alien eyes.
I created 50 cards (out of which I consider 49 to be usable) from the Strathmore Creative Cards, Fluorescent White with Deckle, 5″ x 6-7/8″, 50-Pack using Pigma® Micron® 05 Burgundy, Hunter Green and Black. I essentially doodled on them, wanting to have each card be different yet part of a series. It was interesting to repeat things that I liked about the design as I progressed, drawing one card at a time, mimicking some kind of weird evolution pattern.
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 be subjected to the stuff I put out on social media with this What Would I Say? app. It was difficult at first for me to trust it. Facebook Apps seem a little shady. But after reading the about, I kind of gave into its narcissistic appeal. But, instead I was offered a window into what a status might intrigue. If that makes any sense. Perhaps an insight to what I like without realizing it. I do think a lot about fashion.
A Screen from Risehigh on Vimeo sparks idea: Make a presentation with a projected presenter. People will think you’re crazy for aligning the projector the way that you are. Then after some “overprint” awkward moments, the presentation in the presentation fits perfectly with the screen.
The log reads:
PLAY TEST #2
fix.
make different winner pages
so the back button works.
fix.
Go Back to the USA. heeds new pics.
fix.
Your family is loving. page
back button on winner
doesn’t work.
next time make the text boxes
button.
PLAYTEST ONE
BROKE Afer fwe link hits.
Wow. That was kind of like poetry about life or something. Anyways, I’m working on the “web-app-game” prototype YGDS or You’re a Graphic Design Student. It’s a little broken, but still fun to play if you just can’t wait. I’m planning on fixing it a little and need more playtesting subjects. (As you can tell, I can’t even decide whether it should be “You’re a Graphic Design Student” or “You’re a Graphic Designer.”) Follow the instructions and email me the results of your play testing if you want. Crowdsourcing, hey?
1. You Are A Graphic Designer. (For proper viewing, with your iPhone— or other phone, tablet, mobile whatever?–, view the site, then click the 
button and “Add to Home Screen”.
2. Use the interface to the best of your ability and read the text and make some choices.
3. When satisfied with your engagement, email katarinacountiss @ gmail. com with this information:
What you liked about it?
What you didn’t like about it?
What are five of your interests?
4. I’ll post the results, anonymized for your convenience, make a new prototype and show you how I grew from your suggestions.
Thank you.
You Are A Graphic Designer. (For proper viewing, with your iPhone, view the site, then click the button and “Add to Home Screen”.
I worked on the type and started on all the text and linking up of pages and such. Finding images was fun. I leafed through my media library so this program has kind of a autobiographical flare. Don’t cheat. Here’s the map for the “game.”
You Are A Graphic Designer. (For proper viewing, with your iPhone, view the site, then click the button and “Add to Home Screen”.
I am starting a new project today. A conversion of this flow chart into a mobile site specifically for mobile using my adapted Ratchet framework using html. It was easy switching out the svgs for different ones. I’m going to work on typography and adding classes for everything and trying out some images before I hook up more pages. Possible a mood board and style tile to give it a finished look.
Kismet Arts Tangent 