Selfie Examination

A curated collection of selfies in the field of contemporary graphic design. Browse by category:

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One Frame of Fame, an internationally crowdsourced music video.

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Nicholas Felton uses his daily life as data to create compositions that annually recount his activities.

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Christopher Doyle’s Identity Guidelines specify his aesthetic and lifestyle preferences and tendencies.

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The Wilderness Downtown

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Arcade Fire’s interactive HTML5 music experience, “The Wilderness Downtown”. By Chris Milk and Google Chrome Labs.

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No Ghost Just A Shell by m/m Studios

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Designers' Personal Archives

Designers use their own lives as basis for work. This practice turns diaries into data, life experiences into visual ones and promotes the designer's personal brand at the same time.

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Irma Boom’s self-authored autobiography makes it clear that she thinks of herself as humble subject matter for a biography.

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Self-Authored Autobiographies

When a designer authors a book, subject usually takes precedence over the designer's individual voice. When the subject IS the designer, each aspect of the book typifies what he or she thinks of him or herself.

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Armin Hofmann's self-authored biography is an massive volume of cubes reflecting both his modernist aesthetic and his ego.

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James Victore’s self-authored book is loud, unapologetic and not a little bit dark– just like his work, just like him.

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Designers' Collections

Designers are notorious hoarders– nice packaging, old wrapping paper, ticket stubs, ephemera that most people would just toss away pile up in our bedrooms, our storage boxes, our bulletin boards. These collections, when examined as visual data, reveal sensibilities and tastes that are often apparent in a designer's work.

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Designers on Tumblr

Tumblrs are collections of images that reflect aspects of the curator's aesthetic taste, sense of humor and interests. For designers, Tumblr often serves as a perpetual moodboard, generating, fueling and sharing inspiration throughout the community.

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decoding: by Mina Park

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Personal Branding

Designers create identities for clients, but also for themselves. These identity systems reflect core aesthetic values, but also serve as self-promotion throughout the websphere.

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HI! I’M AEROFLOT FLIGHT SU 150, ON THE TARMAC AT MOSCOW’S SHEREMETYEVO AIRPORT. I’M NOT FLYING TO REYKJAVÍK, AND EDWARD SNOWDEN IS NOT ON BOARD.

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Metahaven's Tumblr is a stream-of-consciousness scroll through their projects, conversations and experiments.

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Metahaven’s Tumblr is a stream-of-consciousness scroll through their projects, conversations and experiments.