Inquiring Mind: Archive

Oct 6th

Apr 19th

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Apr 17th

Watch

After loosing this project when my hard-drive crashed, i’m excited to report that I’ve FINALLY finished (well, nothing is ever finished) recreating it. This semester we have investigated the idea of interface by exploring a chosen data base. I chose to explore monuments in need of being repaired the list that I was working from was generated by the World Monuments Fund. This...

Apr 13th

Forms of Future—response to reading →

This past Friday, David and I had the opportunity to lead seminar. The suggested readings for the week had an overarching theme of play, the virtual world, and of course interface. We decided to restructure the class for the day and had groups of two answer questions that we provided on one of the readings. Each group was to then present their thoughts through “a new interface” by...

Feb 27th

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Feb 14th

Jan 30th

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“I believe that you can learn a lot about how something works by figuring out how...”

– Tobias Frere-Jones, from Texts on Type Critical Writings on Typography

Nov 17th

“So I did try that day to begin a little project with no preconceived idea of...”

– Stefan Sagmeister

Nov 16th

Nov 6th

Nov 3rd

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Oct 30th

Project three

Design either (1) a series of static one-sheets or (2) a dynamic work, that expresses a point of view about a known design strategy or strategies relative to the rhetoric of authenticity in design (graphic, industrial, architectural, fashion, and/or environmental). Determine the number of one-sheets or the sequence duration, and scale, as required by the expression. The one-sheets/sequence should...

Oct 21st

A Plea for Authentic Type Design

A short essay by Hermann Zapf I am an artist who has been designing types for many years. As we all know, to make a living as a freelance designer, you have to work hard with your mind as well as with your hand. For you to want to earn at least enough money to dress your wife nicely, feed your children every day, and live in a house where the rain doesn’t come through the roof onto your...

Oct 21st

“One of my earliest remembered classroom humiliations — and there have been...”

– Peter Turchi Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (p 99)

Oct 15th

A reflection to the initiation project…

We live in a world where visual conventions are tirelessly being etched into our minds, and therefore our consciousness of them disseminates. As a result of this, it is an extremely onerous process to introduce unprecedented solutions because our ideas have subconsciously been tainted by the patterns observed in our routines. Even our most inventive ideas are likely to stem from these observations...

Oct 14th

Oct 13th

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Oct 13th

“The desire to cling to that first path through the wilderness is both a...”

– Peter Turchi

Oct 13th

And up to bat…

…PROJECT #2. “Design : An Initiation to ________ , introducing new visual conventions that might logically follow, or interrupt, if such is the more compelling strategy. Any media, any point of delivery.” Well, I haven’t a clue what my initiation for my community (Governor Moreheads School for the Blind) will be; but I did read a great book this weekend suggested by Santiago:...

Sep 22nd

From Limerick to Haiku

PROBLEM : Write a short story inspired from your observations at the coffee shop Trixie People refer to her as Trixie At global Village she serves coffee She is somewhat high-strung Granted she’s lots of fun But needs attention like a puppy Her smile never disappeared from her face She is one you could never replace Hair cut with a thick bang Her voice had quite a twang Her presence...

Sep 17th

First attempt at — THE PROBE.

A significant amount of Global Village coffee drinkers spend their time nested within the walls of the café, sipping on their beverage while reading, studying, working, talking, or simply enjoying the peaceful ambience and aroma within the shop. This cultural probe investigates the stress level of the consumers throughout their stay. After analyzing the results, this probe will be able to answer...

Sep 17th

Plant a Thought—Design a cultural probe that...

I was unsatisfied with the results of my first attempt at the probe—so decided to start completely over for this one. My inspiration stemmed from observations made while sitting at Global Village. I decided to use the well-being of the song-bird (and other habitation) as the incentive for participating in the probe… PROBLEM: Design a cultural Probe — that aims to discover...

Sep 16th