Thought Swamp

Category: Inspiration

  • AIGA Indy Spotlight

    The Indianapolis chapter of the AIGA, to which I belong, recently published a spotlight piece featuring me on their Instagram and LinkedIn socials. For the piece, I was asked to consider a series of prompts. Before I knew my colleagues at AIGA only required bullet point responses, I penned a 1000 word response. The following…

  • Gestalt Principles in Design

    It seemed there was a lot of chatter surrounding gestalt in design last week. The Nielsen Norman Group put out a series of 3-minute videos regarding Gestalt Principles in UI design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwR0SZTBMTU). The Interaction Design Foundation also ran a post featuring one of their courses on Gestalt Psychology in design. Many folks following these channels…

  • Design for Democracy

    AIGA, the professional association for design, invited designers of all specialties to participate in a non-partisan, get out the vote poster campaign. Through its “Design for Democracy” campaign, designers could create posters aimed at promoting participation in U.S. elections. Many of the submitted posters were printed and on display at the AIGA National Conference held…