The artful nature of the imagery I created for Preact is often best appreciated when it’s extracted, isolated and set apart from its context.
Visual Design
StudyBlue Redesign
Starting with the relaunch of the marcom site and other product/marketing initiatives–such as Class Stats, Study Guides, mobile quizzing and SEO display screens–a beta release of the new StudyBlue is live!
All platform apps (web, iOS, Android) have been overhauled in terms of brand identity, visual and experience design–plus some very nifty back-end and code updates that have radically improved performance.
Here’s the new design direction, and here’s what TechCrunch had to say about it all recently.
TART 2014
The artist Duncan Campbell has just been shortlisted for the Turner prize. Anne gave him his first US show at TART in 2005.
Duncan Campbell’s film “Falls Burns Malone Fiddles” draws out the processes whereby people do nothing and something happens. It is a sort of aesthetization of everyday existence visible in the hairstyles, the fashions and aspirations of the moment…
Update: Campbell won the 2014 Turner Prize!
As TART was conceived to exist for no more than 3-4 years (our first show was in 2004 our last, 2008), the website I designed has become the space’s primary archive.
The Pelican Project
Pelican book covers from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s–courtesy of Things Magazine.
So inspirational!
Artist Magazines + Ephemera
Saw some great works in this show at 871 Fine Arts in SF – here’s an excerpt from the curatorial statement:
It’s really difficult to successfully show printed works as opposed to strictly visual works of art in a gallery setting. You either have a choice of showing the cover or opening up to an inviting interior page, leaving the rest unseen. It’s the same whether you’re showing artists’ books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, correspondence or other published ephemera. They are best perused in a comfortable position, at ones leisure, thumb to page. That said, printed matter is an integral part of a comprehensive artistic experience and a highly interesting aspect to boot. So despite the drawbacks of display, the attempt to highlight these materials goes on, and from my viewpoint, it is most welcome…
New StudyBlue Android app
Redesigned and completely rewritten to compliment the most current Android UX patterns this was my first assignment at StudyBlue. I got involved during the last phase of the project and worked to help iron out kinks, update graphics and help the launch promotion.
I got to test out the new app, and I like how easy it is to use.
– Jennifer Roland, Edcetera
