Welcome back to my blog! In this post, I will be discussing my most recent project: a menu re-design for Fat Katz Slider Bar, an endearing restaurant that caught my eye in its original menu, and just how much information was presented. While the place itself was bright and flashy, I took inspiration from its atmosphere going off of simply the logo design, following an orange color palette all the way through. Pulling other inspirations with my color palette, I tried to replic

Around the time of WWII, there were numerous atrocities unfolding across the country of Germany, as many of us know. However, one small debate stood in the midst of all this chaos, one simple typeface that grew to define the Nazi regime altogether. That typeface was originally Fraktur, mainly distiguished by its decorative endcaps in a blackletter style. However, an ancient conflict was revived when another typeface began to be compared alongside it, being the typeface Antiqu

What exactly is Dadaism? This peculiar term came to me when a friend recommended I take a History of Surrealism class—its full title being Dadaism and Surrealism . That alone sent me spiraling into a rabbit hole of a movement I had somehow never encountered, a strange and electrifying corner of art history that felt too bold, too unruly, too ahead of its time to be forgotten. Born in the grisly shadow of World War I, Dadaism emerged as a chaotic rebuttal to a Europe that had

The semicolon has one of those surprisingly dramatic histories that can make you look twice, being such a simple thing within writing. First born in Venice in 1494, this was during a time when writers were experimenting wildly with language, and where punctuation wasn’t established with fixed rules, but entirely where punctuation marks were discarded reguarly. These expansive uses of text, across both printed and handwritten uses, were pioneered by the literarati known as the

Welcome back to my Propaganda Study series! Today I’m diving into the riveting history of a once powerhouse of a country: the Soviet Union. While being mainly known for stark geometry and the use of authoritative tone, Soviet propaganda gave major influence in shaping the design landscape, particularly the Bauhaus era. Even though in the modern age is not as obvious, the rigidity shown in this time period demonstrated a great feat of color theory, where emphasis took the stag

Oh yes, the timeless period of the 90s rock-revival, a period in music I had always wanted to experience for myself since I watched my father play Unplugged concerts on the TV when I was younger. The gritty yet universal appeal of grunge music at the time laid the roots of my long journey into exploring music myself, working at a record store in high school for a short period before heading into college, where I am currently a student in Digital Media Design, an ever-changing

The Blackletter font... I wouldn't say needs an introduction. While being so ornamental and born from the highest of royalty, this font eventually became a staple in alternative culture today, having an industrial edge that is instantly recognizable. During the early Middle Ages, European manuscripts were written in Carolingian minuscule , a rounded, spacious script designed under the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne, who brought unity to a fractured literary world. But as Euro