My Pelican

Went fishing the other day all day.
I sense that evolution has allowed the new generation of pelicans to become lazy. –No longer must they study and scoop their food; instead, they sit around on piers making (cute) faces at successful fishermen.
I gave one such pelican some food. For that, he agreed to do a 30-minute [...]

Wikicreepster?

I already regret writing about this: Assange/Olbermann/Moore/Wolf/Friedman. What a monster mash.
At the same time, my opinion isn’t very popular (YET!!!), and I’d like to throw my winter cap into the ring to see what kind of pitchforks this crowd be holdin’.
Alright, so, first off, let’s establish. This very blog started as a feministy blog. It [...]

Semester: Products Part III

Thesis
Oh thesis, how I love thee.
If you’re a grad design kid at CMU (Info Design or Interaction Design), you are required to develop a poster summing up your progress at the end of the fall semester of your thesis year. Our beloved poster session occurred Dec. 10– I even got there 15 minutes early. [...]

Semester: Products Part II

Social Impact by Design
In SIBD, we spent the first part of the semester discussing what “social impact by design” means. The rest of the semester we spent working on a project that was, by the standards of the class, social impact by design. Could I tell you for sure what that is? Well, no, but [...]

Semester: Products Part I

Presenting the reasons why I never update my blog but also the reasons why I’ve got the blog…
Here are the semester’s final products:
Information+Interaction+Perception
In IIP we spent the semester learning the psychological (and somewhat conventional) components of information design. For our final project, we were asked to gather a large amount of data that isn’t well [...]