Tag: cmu
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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…
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GoCoffee Presentation
The GoCoffee team (Kip, Rachel, and I) presented our mobile interface this morning with great success, despite a snafu where the Flash demonstration did not play correctly in the middle of me speaking. But we rolled with it. Kip, the other grad on the team, stepped up and asked if there were any questions up…
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Cursed Process Book
The process book for my data visualization project is due tomorrow. I initially finished it on Friday. On Saturday, I printed a draft and showed it to someone. Too much white space, he said. Six weeks into design school, I simply cannot ignore a comment like “too much white space.” So I spent time on…
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From Imagination to Bloodshed
During design seminar, Dan took us to view Joyce Kozloff??????s Exterior and Interior Cartographies at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery on the campus. Kozloff’s work features drawings, collages, prints, paintings. She juxtaposes hand-drawn maps and cut-outs of illustrated military figures and drawings of super heros by young boys. The idea I got was that both…
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Mapping the Invisible
Today I went to Martin Wattenburg’s lecture on mapping the invisible, during which he highlighted some of his work, including: Shape of Song NameVoyager Apartment I found the above three the most interesting. They’ve been around for a while, so there’s a chance you’ve already seen them. I can’t remember if I had been to…