Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Design

  • First Project Complete

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    You would think with a four-day weekend (I have no classes on Friday), I would have had time to complete my first project without losing sleep. Wrong. The project was to redesign a singular control for John Zimmeran’s Introduction to Interaction and Visual Interface Design. We had to produce a 11×17 color poster mounted on…

  • It’s Only Tuesday

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    Have I really already completed two days of grad school? Have I really only completed two days of grad school? Surely, it’s not Tuesday already. And surely, it’s not only Tuesday? I am just beginning to understand how this is going to rock my world. My life as I knew it before, my life as…

  • CMU Grad Design Orientation

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    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 administrator. He asked if I was…

  • Easability: Easier than Usable

    Easability: Easier than Usable

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    Going back to school has put me in contact with like-minded people who throw around design terms as easily as other folks talk about the weather. Tonight, during a conversation amongst such nerds cool people, one such designer mentioned the “easability” of some product or service. “Did you just say ‘easability’,” I, the nascent designer,…

  • Emergence Conference Website

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    Last week Dan Boyarski popped his head into class, pointed to me, and told me to see him after class. So I did. He wanted to know if I could help out with maintaining and updating the Emergence Conference website that the School of Design is hosting September 8???????10. Sure, I said. Even with the…

  • 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…

  • Paper Candle Holder Complete

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    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…

  • What Can Paper Do for You?

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    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…

  • Lesson About Cubes

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    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…