What Design Conference to Attend?
Each year the School of Design gives us some money to attend a conference of our choice. Unless I missed something, we were never provided with a list of conferences thought to be worthwhile, which I believe would be helpful since many of us come from different fields and are not familiar with design conferences. [...]
Fitwits
Before the Thanksgiving break, Kristin Hughes, who is currently teaching my graduate typography class, asked me to help her put up a placeholder website for Fitwits. I don’t really know what it is: I didn’t have time to ask. But I built it, and thought it was cool she asked me.
Plato Knows Interaction
We’re reading Plato to explore the fourth mode of interaction: person and cosmos. I’m sure most people would not understand why we’re reading Plato to learn about design. It’s possible there are those in my class that feel the same way. I find it extremely interesting to approach Plato and Aristotle—his Poetics was the previous [...]
Empty Space Loses Its Meaning
I read the following quote in the appendix of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, which a friend laid in my lap while I was drinking beer and searching for new clothes online at 1 a.m. I wished to show that space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence, [...]
Why I Write Poetry
Why I write poetry is a question I’ve been asking myself since I started writing during senior year of high school. Recently I’ve been reconsidering the question. What compels me fill a blank sheet of paper with ragged lines of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and meter? Of all writing, why did I choose poetry? This post [...]
My History with Poetry
I was talking to a friend recently about professional money-making pursuits versus artistic pursuits. During this conversation, I mentioned my poetic roots. She asked if I still write, because I never talk about poetry. I could easily write a book about my history with poetry, as it is connected in some way to everything I’ve [...]