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Written by guest contributor Hayley Garden, this post is the fourth in a series that discusses the role of female characters in the Final Fantasy franchise. Check out our recent artist interview with Hayley! Written by Hayley Garden; edited by Kathryn Cooperman. Cover image per Wikimedia Commons. CW: Mention of death. Please note that this post contains spoilers for […]Read Post ›
Written by guest contributor Hayley Garden, this post is the third in a series that discusses the role of female characters in the Final Fantasy franchise. Check out our recent artist interview with Hayley! Written by Hayley Garden; edited by Kathryn Cooperman and Catherine Harlow. Cover image per Real Women of Gaming. CW: Suicide mention Both Final Fantasy V […]Read Post ›
Written by guest contributor Hayley Garden, this post is the second in a series that discusses the role of female characters in the Final Fantasy franchise. Check out our recent artist interview with Hayley! Written by Hayley Garden; edited by Kathryn Cooperman and Catherine Harlow. Final Fantasy IV was an incredible triumph for video game […]Read Post ›
As we all know, a highly-anticipated election is coming up this Tuesday. This election in particular is extremely nerve-wracking as it decides the fate of the USA for the next four years. At last, there is a hope that we can usher in new leadership, and with that, a restoration of justice, and a potential […]Read Post ›
This is the first in a series of posts by our wonderful guest writer, Hayley Garden, whose artist interview we published a couple of weeks ago. Stay tuned for more! Written by Hayley Garden. Edited by Kathryn Cooperman and Catherine Harlow. The year was 1991. A small company nestled in the heart of Japan called […]Read Post ›
Hayley Garden is a New York-based motion designer and illustrator. She recently received her MFA in Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She holds a BFA in Animation and Motion Media and a minor in Photography from Emerson College, Boston. Hayley is passionate about animation and motion design. She […]Read Post ›
Written by Kathryn Cooperman. Edited by Tiffany Chan, Catherine Harlow, and Morgan Moore. Contemporary black artist Kehinde Wiley (1977- ) is turning the European canon of art on its head. He creates works based on famous historical European paintings that feature black figures from the present day. The artist empowers his subjects by bestowing them […]Read Post ›
Written and edited by Kathryn Cooperman. Cover image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), which is on view in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is an iconic painting in the Western canon of art history. This scene, which depicts a chaotic, unsettled sky looming over […]Read Post ›
Written by Kathryn Cooperman. Edited by Morgan Moore. Cover image courtesy of James Deavin, The Telegraph. When studying European art history, five terms in particular – impasto, tenebrism, sfumato, foreshortening, and trompe l’oeil – are essential for art historians to know. All of these techniques refer to how artists of this time chose to model […]Read Post ›
Julia is a game designer based in London. She is currently working on her Master’s in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths University. Her background is in computer science and comics and illustration. She has made a variety of web-based interactive narratives, although she is now currently focused on making physical and tactile game narratives using microcontrollers, […]Read Post ›
