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A Journey into the World of CRT Video Art with Jack Harrison

With this interview featuring Jack Harrison, I’m excited to kick off my new video interview series, Ephemera Portraits! Today, we’ve got a special treat for all you art enthusiasts and tech lovers out there. We’re bringing you an exclusive, insightful chat with the ingenious mind behind Digital

Rethinking Gaming in a Perspective Inspired by Reading

Rethinking Gaming in a Perspective Inspired by Reading

An illustration of Two plastic cup string phones

Design is pure communication.

A pixel art, similar to Macintosh II graphics. A hand holding a brush drawing a gamepad on a canvas.

Roger Ebert was Wrong, Video Games can never not be Art.

Emerging Cultural Artifacts for the Coming Century

Emerging Cultural Artifacts for the Coming Century

One white flower and a pink one and on top of the white one there is a blue butterfly on it.

Designer by Nature: Designing Beyond Job Roles

All I Know is I Could Never Go Back

All I Know is I Could Never Go Back

Design

An illustration of Two plastic cup string phones

Design is pure communication.

Although a big part of what we do involves the product and metrics, their value ultimately depends on how well we communicate within our teams. Design itself serves as a form of communication—a means to convey ideas and messages. Our design process should revolve around conveying our ideas and

Emerging Cultural Artifacts for the Coming Century

Emerging Cultural Artifacts for the Coming Century

One white flower and a pink one and on top of the white one there is a blue butterfly on it.

Designer by Nature: Designing Beyond Job Roles

A simple vector illustration of a bike. Its body is made of letter A.

Kumi Hori's Inspirational Art of Deconstruction

A square border hugging a black circle and in the circle it says Hong Kong in Hanzi characters.

I came, I saw, I designed- Hong Kong Bistro Font Exploration

An Abstract Letter S in the middle of a square and two ovals overlapping the square shape. Everything is in orange and black.

A Typeface Tribute to the Guest Worker Diaspora

Games

Rethinking Gaming in a Perspective Inspired by Reading

Rethinking Gaming in a Perspective Inspired by Reading

Lately I've been thinking about how I spend a lot of time playing games on my handheld devices instead of my computer. This got me thinking why am I doing this? And why does it feel better than just sitting in front of a computer? And I realized that it's

A pixel art, similar to Macintosh II graphics. A hand holding a brush drawing a gamepad on a canvas.

Roger Ebert was Wrong, Video Games can never not be Art.

All I Know is I Could Never Go Back

All I Know is I Could Never Go Back

Bramble: A beautiful introduction to a horrifying story

Bramble: A beautiful introduction to a horrifying story

Left: A lone man traverses a wide grassland, burdened with bags. Right: Two people. standing in an open field.

Connecting Through Loss, Exploring Human Bonds in Death Stranding and The Leftovers

Red background, there is white face, almost like a mask, eyes shut but weeping red tears.

A Lovecraftian Twist for the After Class hours: ...Iru!

An old illustration probably from 1920s depicting a maid's head. She has no eyes but there is a red tear on her face.

Narrative Through Beautiful Objects, This Bed We Made

Essentials

only a left part of a game controller with a d-pad, it overlaps a circle where its half is extending outside of the frame.

Video Games are for everyone, and it’s a beautiful medium.

We’ve been witnessing a shift in the video game scene as more and more people openly embrace and enjoy gaming. When I was younger, video games were often regarded as an unsophisticated form of entertainment. However, the perception is changing, and individuals are no longer hesitant to admit their

Design

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Design is pure communication.

Emerging Cultural Artifacts for the Coming Century

Designer by Nature: Designing Beyond Job Roles

Kumi Hori's Inspirational Art of Deconstruction

I came, I saw, I designed- Hong Kong Bistro Font Exploration

Games

More

Rethinking Gaming in a Perspective Inspired by Reading

Roger Ebert was Wrong, Video Games can never not be Art.

All I Know is I Could Never Go Back

Bramble: A beautiful introduction to a horrifying story

Connecting Through Loss, Exploring Human Bonds in Death Stranding and The Leftovers

Essentials

More

Video Games are for everyone, and it’s a beautiful medium.