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  • The Meaning of Life is a Game

      In an email I sent to a friend recently: I hope you find “meaning.” …I think it goes back to that idea that maybe life is a game. You have to decide for yourself what the winning conditions are, and harder yet, the little power-ups and special items to unlock that will encourage you…

  • The Wish List of a Graphic Design Student

    The Amazon Wish List– I heard of the Amazon Wish List and appreciate its specificity to which you assign want. There’s also some magical confidence that your friends are technologically savvy enough to see it and understand that it’s the thought that counts and the thought to get it right is the thought that counts…

  • Web Design Tangent: Bells and Whistles

    Last monday, the class was instructed by Erik Fadiman on jquery slideshows and audio in html 5. I was a bit defeated by all the code that seemed to melt between my fingers. I still can’t fathom how there is not really an undo button. So, what happened? I had made a foundation of code…

  • App Design Process: “Wire frames”

    Taskflow1 Using tips from this article entitled “‎10 simple ways to make wireframes more useful”– I added color to keep track of what specific part of the task my user was at– I made these wireframes for my first task flow for the LastFall app. The user wants to enter information (a.k.a. an accident report). As…

  • Revisiting Science for Artists

    Last summer, I started a blog called Science for Artists. It’s a blog for my favorite excerpts and syntheses of my summer reading. Today, I found a link to this article on my Twitter, NPR’s article ”When Art Meets Science, You’ll Get The Picture” by Nancy Shute. It resurrected feelings I feel about art, science and design and how…

  • Book Review: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-line Dispatches from the Advertising War by Jerry Della Femina (Book – 2010)   I don’t know why I picked up this book other than that it was on a few reading lists. This is from a genre of advertising books that make me slightly ill.…

  • Book Review: Buying in

      Buying in: The Secret Dialogue between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker  This book may be recommended if you haven’t a clue about post-modern consumerism. But, I think you do. Especially if you live in the United States, it becomes obvious we are surrounded by brands vying for our attention and…

  • App Design Process: Style Tile

    (This style tile is inspired by the work of Saul Bass, Art Goodman and Dave Nagata. Hitchcock typeface by Matt Terich. Tumblr theme by Matthew Buchanan.) When I went to get a tumblr to go with my app (I’m not ready to design my own tumblr themes.) I found one by Matthew Buchanan and I thought…