This is an index of projects I (Josh Krauth-Harding) created while a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.
| Project title | Class | Year | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🌷 | Icon | DGD-412 ADV COM DESIGN II | 2021 | For my final thesis, I created a microsite investigating the ways in which queerness is co-opted by capitalism. |
| 📖 | Artist book | DFA-165 EXPLORING THE BOOK | 2020 | I created this tool to generate unique color block compositions which I then printed and bound into a single-run book. |
| 🖋️ | Scroll to feed and back again | DGD-373 PUBLICATION DESIGN | 2020 | After reading The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan, this project compared and contrasted different formats of content. |
| 🚌 | 2020 Detroit Transit Report | DGD-312 INTER COM DES II | 2020 | An e-publication which inventoried the current state of public transportation in Detroit. |
| 🦠 | Community Isolation Report | DGD-374 DATA VISUALIZATION | 2019 | Early during the pandemic I texted a group of 30 local individuals daily and asked them to report their anxiety level on a scale of 1-5. |
| 🏳️🌈 | I was born in 1999, gay | DGD-374 DATA VISUALIZATION | 2019 | What would my life have been like if I never came out of the closet? What if I was straight? |
| 🗞️ | Fake News Generator | DGD-365 INTERACTION III | 2019 | After learning about GPT-2, OpenAI's advanced language generating algorithm, I created a lofi-version of their program which only generated fake news. This was just the software part of a full exhibition design project. |
| ❤️ | Like my post | DGD-264 INTERACTION II | 2019 | A code-based exercise that contained revolutionary social commentary on social media (not really). |
| ✏️ | Detroit Do the Census 2020 | DGD-264 INTERACTION II | 2019 | Microsite exercise encouraging Detroit residents to participate in the 2020 census after a lackluster showout in 2016. |
| 🎒 | Capitalist Scholar | DGD-264 INTERACTION II | 2019 | An online archive of ten objects I purchased for school. |
| 🩸 | Blood banned | DGD-263 INTERACTION I | 2018 | Baby's first website. Based on an article called "Should I Forgo Gay Sex to Donate Blood?" by Kwame Anthony Appiah. |
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