Tag: cmu
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Communication Design Fundamentals
This week of my design fundamentals course at CMU Stacie Rohrbach is introducing us to communication design. Stacie gave us an overview of grids, fonts, and legibility versus readability. A point I found interesting was that for three of the four types of grids (manuscript, column, and modular), Stacie said you can set up the…
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Paper Candle Holder Complete
A little past midnight Thursday I had a breakthrough with my paper candle holder design thanks to my resistance to using tabs and finding inspiration in an upright paper grocery bag in the corner of my kitchen. ??????Wait, that folds flat,?????? I realized (a requirement). The final design was simple, but elegant, and could go…
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What Can Paper Do for You?
Paper is pretty neat stuff, once you start to mess with it. And that’s exactly what I’m doing, and have done for a lot of today, mess about with paper. I’m looking to use some translucent paper that’s a bit like plastic for my candle holder, which has been slow in coming. But I keep…
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Lesson About Cubes
Ever try to make a cube out of paper? It??????s hard. Add requirements like it must have three-inch sides, fit flat and disassembled in an enveloped, someone should be able to assemble it easily, and the cube should stay intact after assembly, and you??????re talking hours of frustration. That??????s what we did today. We made…
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Bad Industrial Design Web Sites
What I didn’t say yesterday was that we had to choose an industrial design firm for our one-page write-up. I looked at a half dozen sites before deciding. The determining factors for the company I chose were the site didn’t totally suck, and they had photos of the products and text I could grab for…