2nd Edition
Thanks to Groupon, I finally used Blurb, one of the many book publishing services online. I wasn’t expecting anything fantastic, but I guess for a pessimist I’m pretty impressed.
I reprinted my “Kids These Days” project from last semester (photos provided by the lovely Veronica Hansen). I had to tweak it a bit since Blurb has [...]
Ignite photos
Photos from Ignite Pittsburgh are up! There is a video up, too, but…
The conversation
Person: “Where do you go to school? Pitt? Duquesne?”
Me: “Carnegie Mellon.”
Person: “Oh!”
My internal response: Yes, I am a Caucasian person who attends CMU.
Person: “What do you study there?”
Me: “Design.”
Person: “Like, fashion? Interior?”
Me: “Information design and interaction design.”
Person: “What’s that?”
Me: “I work to make meaning out of data via structure and behavior. [...]
Ignite PGH!
Hey Burghers,
I’m speaking at Ignite PGH, if ya wanna come.
Hit the books
Amazon? Yes.
B&N? Yes.
More on the book.
Paradox
“That’s the paradox– You have to be selfish and give nothing for a while so you can give gifts of greater consequence in the future.” -Dave Kaufer
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 [...]
I’ve been blogged
Just found this blog post on “Online Media Design” through SXSW search results. This person listed five panels at SXSW he or she was definitely going to see, and mine is one of them! He or she (I wish I knew, but props to gender-neutral authoring) said,
Comedic Communication: Designing for Pleasure and Play
By Chelsey Delaney, [...]