Category: Design
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Earth Day Poster for Whole Foods
For the Color and Communication class I’m taking this semester with Kristin Hughes and Mark Mentzer, we were asked to create a mask out of recycled plastic. The project was inspired by the practice of creating toys from plastic bottles and objects that Kristin saw during a trip to South Africa. We were then asked…
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Designing the Ideal Design Firm
As an unexpected twist to the end of the semester, for my Design, Management, and Organizational Change class with Richard Buchanan, we were asked to design our ideal design consulting company. The class was split into three groups that are to approach the question from three different perspectives: people, products and services (forms), and brand,…
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Teaching Gestural Interaction
Today marked the beginning of the third project in the Basic Interaction course I am teaching this semester. The goal of the project is to design an ebook reader taking into account gestural interaction for particular audiences and contexts. I thought this would be a good project because it combines a product with much opportunity…
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Six More Weeks of Grad School
If you follow this blog regularly, you will have noticed that I have not been regularly updating as of late. Time has been very limited, and the brain power needed for blogging has been diverted to other tasks, like thesis, thesis, teaching, coursework, and, of course, finding a job.There are six more weeks left of…
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But why?
For one of my classes, I was asked to put a file on the server. But when I saw the possible folder names, none made sense as a destination for my file. “Why is this one called ‘print’?,” I asked. “Why is this one named…why is…,” I continued. This prompted one of my classmates to…