Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Carnegie Mellon

  • Information Design Week Wrap-Up

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    This week was not as intense as the past couple weeks, which was a nice change. Part of that had to do with us not starting to actually create our change of address forms until Thursday. Despite only having one day to turn it around, everyone turned in quality work. It was impressive to see…

  • Deceptively Weak Thumbnail Sketches

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    Today Bob critiqued our thumbnail sketches. Mine were pretty bad in retrospect. Bad in the sense that they didn’t look like much time or thought went into them, which is true for the time part. However, as it turns out, I followed my thumbnail sketch for my final production. Mine were full scale: 10.5 x…

  • Redesign USPS Change of Address Form

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    Yesterday my group and I wandered about CMU campus looking for people to fill out the US Postal Service’s mail forwarding change of address form so we could see what types of problems people have. The idea was to use the information we gathered to inform the redesign of the form that each of us…

  • Candle Holders

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    Candle Holders So here is a shot of the candle holders I made during week two of the design fundamentals course. I don’t have any tea lights at the moment, so I couldn’t light them up. Again, these are made out of paper and were required to fold flat so that they could fit in…

  • Information Design Week

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    This week we’re exploring information design with Bob Swinehart. Today we talked broadly about information design, and defined it as designing to help people understand information. And while that makes sense, it also has the feel of defining interaction design as “designing for interaction.” Though I do like the simplicity of both. Our project for…

  • Playing it Safe

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    While I was quite happy with my poster yesterday, today is just seemed okay. I had a suspicion that it was too safe. It worked well, but I felt like I didn’t really push myself. Type Poster Stacie essentially confirmed my suspicion when I asked her. She also commented that I seem fairly familiar with…

  • Type Poster Complete

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    It’s amazing how each week we go from nothing to a full-blown production. On Monday it seems implausible that we will actually accomplish the task given to us. This week I went from arranging magazine cutouts on an 8×11 piece of paper, to arranging an 11-page document on a 30×72 poster. Last week I could…

  • Struggling to be a Designer

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    I had a talk with Stacie today about how I believe my experience is keeping me from taking risks. I have realized over the past few weeks that even when I do take a chance, I often do not submit that for critique. And I find that troubling, since school is exactly the place to…

  • Grid Systems Project

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    Our project for the week is to use supplied text in the context of a large poster (30″x72″), a book, or a website. Because I have lots of web experience, I was not allowed to choose the website, so I chose the poster. The supplied text is about 10 pages, so putting all that content…