Posts tagged with “design”
The Importance of Atheism
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I’m including this post here so I can link to it. Did I make this poster when I was like 19? Yes. Would I make it and distribute it today? No. A lot has changed in the world, and in me.
A poster I designed for Warwick Atheists to advertise a series of talks promoting and exploring topics in atheism, agnosticism and antireligion. This poster got the society into some trouble.
Y♥︎LO
To my friends who have sleeve tattoos, gauged ears or drawn-on moustaches, please don’t take this seriously <3
Aural Architecture
In the past few years there have been released a handful of indie games which share a kind of common form and aesthetic, one that strikes a chord with me. This design space is represented in my mind by Kairo, and the upcoming Fract and NaissanceE, though it contains many more.
The quality these games have in common is use a first-person perspective and an experience based around architecture and soundscapes, working in concert to elicit some aesthetic or emotional response.
Autonets
In cyberpunk worldbuilding irl news, here’s something which Jasmine alerted me to.
Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is an artivist project focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against women, LGBTQI people, people of color and other groups who continue to survive violence on a daily basis.
...mesh networked electronic clothing with the goal of building autonomous local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructure to function, inspired by community based, anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses to gendered violence.
The street finds its own use for things.
Free to play
I’m curious/trepidatious about this recurrent theme in the icons of successful free-to-play iOS games.
Like, there must be a reason. But I’ll bet it’s either superstition or awful psychology.
Updates below!
Cool Faith
Looking through a turn-of-the-century almanac of graphic design, I came across this absolute gem:
