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As I read the Aito Acconci's reading, I particularly liked the paragraph that broke down how public space is/becomes defined. Aito breaks it into two categories. Space that is public and a space that is made public. A place that is public is where the public gathers freely because it has the freedom to do so. The second is a place that is made public because of mere fact they don't have the right to be there so the public will change it by a riot or a strike. The whole idea of private and public space is fascinating and in the end do we really have private space? I do not think so and it is scary. Especially with increasing technology.

Artist Blogg # 5

 Nick La was born in Vietnam in 1981, but currently resides in Toronto, Canada with a pug and a shorkie. He graduated from Humber college in Toronto. He is trilingual in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.  specializes in web design and illustrator. He focuses mainly on designing stock icons, WordPress themes, illustrations, and CSS websites. He is the creator of the popular blog Web Designer Wall, Themify, IconDock, and Best Web Gallery. You can find his work in various places including: Computer Arts, Web Designer, .net Magazine, Practical Web Design, Digit, and Web Design Index.

 As I look at Nick La's work I see personification of his style in each web design or icon. His style is very artistic and likable. His choice of working in illustrator is intelligent because you have more freedom of what you can produce. The general theme of his work has two patterns one pattern is to have a detailed background paired with a simplistic title. For example, in Web Designer he has a very detailed background, but the title is very simplistic otherwise it would be to much. The contrast is very important because it would not be anesthetically pleasing to the viewers to have detailed on top of detailed. The second pattern is the exact opposite having a more detailed title paired with a simplistic background as seen in his website for Anika Japanese restaurant. One artistic style I also noticed is he selects a few colors and sticks tho them throughout the design. This creates an anesthetic feel and makes the viewers more inclined to like the page.

 In addition to his website designs he designs icons. I find this very interesting because I never take the time to notice the development of the different types of icons. I find myself just clicking them on my iphone or ipad and go on my merry way, but these small icons take teams to create and is very time consuming.

 I choose Nick La because I like how he uses illustrator to create his backgrounds for a website as it makes the website more artistic. Also now that I have had the opportunity to use the different programs I can relate and respect how challenging it is to create art in the different programs.  

http://ndesign-studio.com/portfolio/web