My Opinion of the CMU.edu Redesign

For the first time since the Internet was invented, Carnegie Mellon redesigned their website. Hurray for breaking out of 1996! I applaud the grand undertaking of overhauling a university website. Having worked at the University of Pittsburgh as a web developer for...

BusinessWeek Names CMU Top Design School

I just got word that the latest BusinessWeek features a section on the best design schools. CMU is listed. In an article titled The Talent Hunt, CMU also gets a mention. Intel is making big financial bets that design school programs like those at ASU, Carnegie Mellon,...

CMU Grad Design Orientation

I arrived on campus 15 minutes before orientation started, so I went to the design office to turn in my time card for the Emergence conference website. No one was in the office except some guy. He was sitting in the administrator area, so I assumed he was an...

Design Fundamentals Is Over

Once again Friday brings the end of a project-driven week, and a big sigh of relief. The difference between this Friday and the last five is that next week there is no new project to work on. The design fundamentals course is over. We’ve got two weeks off before...

Where Is My Mind?

It’s 1:04 a.m. and I’m listening to KEXP’s streaming archive of John Richard’s morning show. Now playing: Where Is My Mind by the Pixies. I love it. Three Hundred and Six That’s how many photos I took for the photo project. At this point...