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The Brand Spankin' New Job!

2010-06-03T16:27:00.004-05:00

I've now been at Design Ranch here in Kansas City for almost two weeks, and it's been so wonderful! I couldn't ask for anything better– everyone here is so friendly and welcoming, the building is gorgeous, and the work is exciting! I'll have to take pictures soon and post them up. In the meantime, here are a few little crops of some of the work I've been doing.

Unusual Behavior

2010-04-12T08:34:00.001-05:00

Graphic Design Senior Show 2010 Everyone should come!!

Painting: ink drawings

2010-03-15T14:20:00.004-05:00

Ink drawings for my painting class, all 4.5" x 6". These are all studies done outside of class, and we work in oil on canvas during class. So fun!

PP: My Identity & Collateral!

2010-03-14T03:31:00.007-05:00

Finished up my identity and collateral this past week!

DP: Mid-Semester Degree Project Summation

2010-03-10T02:56:00.004-06:00

Thinking about my degree project so far, and looking at the timeline I've started with, I feel like I've gotten nothing done. I'm so far behind according to my timeline, and I have so far to go in order to get to where I want to be. The one thing that I've really taken away from this project so far is realizing that I always assign myself waaaay too much to handle. For some reason, I always tell

SE: the auto show

2010-03-07T02:06:00.004-06:00

practical / poetic / persuasive elements of a car show:practical: security guards keeping everyone in linepractical: signs telling us what to dopoetic: a car with a very unique and unexpected matte finishpoetic: Penny Lane herself, straight from the tire!persuasive: a HUGE honkin' 'hybrid' plaque on the side of a new escalade. There's no way you can miss this one...persuasive: but just in case,

DP: sorting things out

2010-03-03T20:27:00.005-06:00

I'm finally getting into my degree project. Phew. When I was writing my timeline a few weeks ago, I really didn't understand just how much work I was getting myself into. As in, years and years of work that I don't have... I just recently realized that I only have a few months to do this project (well, less than two now), and I was planning on authoring, designing, illustrating, and producing an

SE: Habitat '67 construction barricade

2010-02-27T17:33:00.005-06:00

SE: Habitat '67

2010-02-09T00:12:00.004-06:00

Chosen building for my spatial experience construction barricade project, Moshe Safdie designed this pre-fab housing structure for Expo 67 in Montreal.source

DP: the book.

2010-02-08T03:43:00.002-06:00

This is what I want my book to include.

DP: proposed timeline for the semester

2010-02-08T03:34:00.003-06:00

Process Timeline (weeks 4-14) WEEK 3 Monday 2/8: formal presentation of completed research, turn in proposed design solution and timeline of process. (homework: experiment with inventive fold-outs for book. Try to re-create the ones Josh found, and then develop new ones. start to think about how they could be applied to the content. assemble all content for book (easily

DP: project and proposed design solution

2010-02-08T03:29:00.000-06:00

Marrying for love is a cultural phenomenon that is only 200 years old. Within the last 40 years or so, human relationships in love and partnership have continued to go through drastic changes, with the emergence of the birth control pill, which divorced marriage forever from procreation, to the growth of the market economy, in which female workers were needed more and more

DP: Please take a moment...

2010-02-07T20:44:00.003-06:00

...to answer a few questions that will really help me and my degree project. I appreciate the help!Please click here to take the survey.

DP: What is your 'dream job'?

2010-01-26T13:57:00.004-06:00

Being asked "What is your dream job?" led me to think about a million random things of what I would like my future to involve... let's see if I can wrap it up into something remotely cohesive:I can see myself working with a small group of friendly people, whether that be a small design firm, or a business that I start up myself, where we are all on equal terms, and happy to be there. I want to

DP: Degree Project Question

2010-01-26T13:44:00.004-06:00

Final Question:How can print design educate and encourage tolerance to the new level of flexibility and variation in human relationships– such as marriage, cohabitation, same-sex relationships, etc.– to an unaware audience?Based off of Kyle and Ramzy's help!Kyle's initial suggestion:How can interactive printed materials be designed to educate and promote tolerance and acceptance of human

Design Ignites Change: Anchor

2009-12-22T23:33:00.002-06:00

Design Ignites Change is a program that challenges students to use design thinking to explore and create solutions for pressing social problems. The Kansas City Art Institute is a founding school in Design Ignites Change, and our entire senior class has being working on individual projects all semester to submit to this program. The deadline is fast approaching (December 31st!) and I'm excited to

MX: Project Two Final

2009-12-04T10:15:00.004-06:00

The wireframe final!What you see when you first go to the site:The image collage on the left is a big ol' scroll, and when you see a thumbnail you like, you can click on it, annnd...it opens to a huge image of it. (I still want to implement a slideshow element here, to show multiple views, etc... but time is always an issue. It's happening over winter break!)You can click anywhere on the screen

MX: Reading response 4

2009-11-29T22:26:00.005-06:00

reading: "the language of new media" pp 103-115 the screen and the body, representation vs simulationNew concepts learned:The screen represents the idea of the imprisonment of the body. Because you are watching a screen, your body must remain immobile, in order to watch it. It began with photography, in traditional daguerrotypes, the subjects must remain completely still while the image was

MX: Reading response 3

2009-11-29T21:52:00.003-06:00

reading: "the language of new media" pp 94-103 the screen and the user, a screens' genealogyNew concepts learned:The author phrased the term 'screen' as something much more ubiquitous than I had ever thought the screen could be. He mentioned that the 'screen' has been around ever since the Renaissance, as paintings. He defined the screen as something that showed the existence of another virtual

VA: Website sample page and DIC link!

2009-11-22T21:28:00.003-06:00

See my Design Ignites Change project page here:Anchor: Campus Crime Prevention

VA: Crime tags & wallet-sized info booklet

2009-11-22T20:00:00.004-06:00

DS: Final touch points!

2009-11-20T02:43:00.009-06:00

MX: the Interface Reading Response Part 2

2009-11-20T02:30:00.000-06:00

The interface PAAART 2222222222 Pages 78-93 New concepts learned in the passage: In this portion of the reading, they continually brought up the term VRML, but never once cared to define it, so I looked it up on good ol' wikipedia, and it actually means "virtual reality modeling language", but interestingly, it has been superseded in recent years by a new language, called another crazy name.

MX: The Interface Reading Response

2009-11-15T23:57:00.002-06:00

In reading the Interface, I learned a little bit about how the web/computer's interface came about, how it functions, and what that means. Some new concepts I learned from the reading were ideas such as the 'permanent present', which focuses on the idea of how ever since the first macintosh computer came out in 1984, we have been using the same concepts, which have seeped into our very culture

MX: scrolling formal iterations and task scenarios

2009-11-15T20:05:00.003-06:00

formal iterations using a scroll:Task Scenarios IDEA 5? Not sure... 1.) From the main page, user scrolls through work, clicks on a specific piece, larger image pops up of work, with related views/images. Can return to main page by clicking 'back' (or area outside the popped-up images? 2.) From the main page, the user can narrow/expand options by clicking on the category options, which will