Local Atlanta artist/designer Dosa Kim maintains a digital portfolio of his work at this site. The website has a simple black and white design with minimal text and animations. This design was essential to the website because it allows Dosa Kim’s artwork to be presented in a way that it was not over shadowed by flashy colors and eye catching movement. The focus of the viewer will then be on the artwork instead of the actual design of the site. This is the “outside force” that carries the subject matter and viewer to the “enlightened destination.” As the text on his logo bears “some of us will find our way home.”
This photo was taken by Somaly Sith, a student at Kennesaw State University. She accidentally ran over a rat in her drive way and took a picture of it. The body of the rat blends in well with the concrete background but is highlighted by the colors of its blood and guts oozing out the lifeless body. The photo uses the rule of thirds and also contrasts in texture. This is a perfect example that art can be found anywhere and in anything.
This is from a page of the August 2008 issue of GQ magazine. The use of color, text, and font really adds to the article. Notice that different fonts are used to add emphasis to the writing. Also the red color font is only used in the word “Oil” at the very last line. This adds extra emphasis to the word that was already being emphasized with the font. This grabs the attention of the reader and especially anyone who is just simply flipping through the pages of the magazine. To add to the design aspect of this page, the black background oozing onto a white background gives the look of an oil spill.
As an avid sneaker collector, Tinker Hatfield has designed some of my favorite sneakers of all time. He is Nike’s vice president of design and special projects and has designed Air Jordan III all the way to Air Jordan XV and Air Jordan XXIII. Hatfield has a background in architecture and was originally hired by Nike for office spaces and showrooms, but ended up using his architectural background in Nike’s sneaker designs. I think Hatfield says it best in this video “What you design is really an accumulation of everything you have seen or done in your life up to that point.”
Julian Beever is a street chalk artist. He uses Trompe Loeil and Anamorphosis in his work to give the viewers a 3D look in his 2D drawings. The street art Beever has done are very imaginative and humorous. Many of them are even interactive with its viewers and get many reactions from those just simply walking down the street. In this video Beever’s work can be seen along from different angles to show that these drawings are only effective from a certain angle.
DJ Qbert is a Filipino-American turntablist. As a Filipino-American myself, Qbert was one of the few public figures I could relate to growing up and eventually inspired me to also become a turntablist. A legend in the DJ world, Qbert has won numerous DJ competitions and is arguably the best scratch DJ of all time.
