Artist Post: Fabio Sasso

   Fabio Sasso is a graphic and web designer from Brazil. He has a degree in graphic design, but he quickly began working in web design as web was becoming accessible in Brazil. He has a blog, Abduzeedo, which has become very popular for its tutorials and inspirations. He also has a company with Fabiano Meneghetti in which they design websites for companies. He is currently working as a designer for Google.

    blog, Abduzeedo, has brought Sasso a lot of recognition. It was created originally following Sasso’s experiments with design and has grown from there. It offers tutorials in programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, offers inspiration in areas like architecture, illustration, typography and more. It also features interviews with various artists. It is a great place to find inspiration. In the design of the site itself, you scroll down the page to view different recent posts and they are arranged in rows of two, with fairly large thumbnails and small previews of the text.  Also, at the top of the index page is the featured daily inspiration, which is chosen by the writers and users of the site. It is a very colorful and playful site that is really easy to navigate, which is what Sasso is about. He is about the usability of a site, but still with a creative flare and design.

   On his persona website, on the index page, he has an image of himself at the top, with his name in big, bold letters next to it. He has a brief biography and some thumbnails of his graphic design work, which you can click on. Also, on the left side of the page is his most recent Tweet, which I imagine changes every time he tweets. It is very simple but it offers many links to other sites and social networks so that you can learn more about him and see his work.

Citations:

http://line25.com/articles/an-interview-with-graphic-designer-fabio-sasso

http://abduzeedo.com/

http://web-design-software-review.toptenreviews.com/famous-web-designers.html

http://fabiosasso.com/

Getting Lost

I went home this weekend, so for this assignment, I went to a weird area of my county that I was unfamiliar with and drove around. The area is just this jumble of small little towns, so you never know where you are, and no one really goes there unless they live there. I thought it would be easy to get lost back there because a lot of the roads aren't marked and there are so many small roads that look exactly the same. 

This was on my way to the area, so it was still a good-sized, lined road.

An overgrown fence in front of an overgrown lane to an old house.

A really old bridge made of wood, which makes the worst sound when you drive over it.

This is what the roads look like. There isn't enough room for two vehicles, so someone has to pull over, but I hardly saw any other vehicles.

What many of the houses looked like along the roads.

Once I got further down the roads, there were many private drives, like this one, that lead to an incredibly expensive waterfront house.

What I saw when I looked out the side windows, fields and farms. 

Vito Acconci Response

     In chapter nine, Vito Acconci talks about spaces where people go. People go to indoor spaces to stay in groups of people. They are brought to these spaces for similar reasons and there are two reasons why a person would be going there: for the service of the place, or to be a part of that group in the space. There are two types of these places that are “sensed”: a “historical place,” or a “virtual place.” We remember a historical place and we imagine a virtual place. A historical place is “stopped at a certain point in time.” A virtual place is not affected by time for other elements, so a virtual space is much less limited.