Laws of Complexity
Laws of Complexity
A web visualization that critiques John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity through the creation of my own laws of complexity.
LaSean Marie's Work
Spheres of Influence
Spheres of Influence
This work visualizes the demographic data within the design community through sound. As you listen to the shifting voices and analyze the data, it will allow you to acknowledge how you fit into the design space and how your sphere of influence affects the space.
Suffering in Silence
Suffering in Silence
Through the combination of performance and printed media this work explores the tensions between identity —given and created —and normative ideologies. From birth we are consistently forced to identify, to have a label. This system may help to make sense of the world and those around us, but constrains the complexity of our human nature. When we seek to make the unfamiliar, familiar; we force the unfamiliar to become that which it may not be. Rendered uncomfortable, in this space. This work seeks to visualize the conversation between self and society through three poses that reflect tensions within blackness, femininity, and design.
Design for Adaptability
Design for Adaptability
In this exhibit collaboration between Interior Design and Communication Design we created a space that reflects the history of adaptation, a space invites the visitor to explore the innovations of human beings faced with challenging climates throughout history. Beginning with our catalog introducing the audience to adaptive technology, they are then led through a timeline of adaptations from around the world beginning in 2400 B.C. and ending in the year 2000 — giving the viewer the knowledge they need in order to better appreciate and understand the issues at hand as well as the pieces of the exhibit that follow. The use of semi-transparent paneling allows viewers to see other spaces of the exhibit to reflect that history does not exist in the past but exists through time influencing every aspect of life.
Beauty Redefined
Beauty Redefined
Society’s definition of beauty is ever changing, even though a single narrative may dominate our culture. The series of photographs aims to reflect how one’s perspective influences the way in which they would define beauty for themselves despite the world’s projection of a differing definition. It visualizes that through the embracing of oneself beauty is redefined. Projection is a metaphor for how the world views them. The participants' definitions (collected in conversation) represent what they hope to embrace or redefine beauty as, influenced by their personal lives. This is seen in the first image. The second image shows the projected type in reverse, symbolizing the world’s projection of beauty being redefined. The broken text further emphasizes the subject breaking apart the world's projection of beauty.
