Monthly Archives: August 2007

Orientation

Orientation was swell. Just one day – a little odd as many of the other schools have week-long orientations, but we were fine with that. We got our new MacBook Pro’s – which are a fantastic leap forward compared with the junky notebooks we had all summer. I’ve already put my music software on the …

August 26, 2007 – 2:58 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU | Comments (0)

Days 22 Onward

As you, my dear readers, will have noticed, I’ve been a bit lazy regarding the blog this last few weeks. Continuing that trend, I will now proceed to sum up the rest of the summer course in a single post. And don’t expect me to get any better in the future – everyone keeps warning …

August 26, 2007 – 2:07 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Flash, Typography | Comments (0)

Days 16-21, July 24th to 30th

We spent the week working with Bob Swinehart, an information designer by trade. Bob assigned us the task of redesigning the US Post Office’s Change of Address form, a paid project he had personally worked on several years ago. We spent our first day in small groups wandering around campus with the current form, accosting …

August 1, 2007 – 7:36 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Typography | Comments (0)

Day 15 – July 23rd

We all brought in our final Posters/Books/Websites today for a final look-see and critique. I was unable to do as much on mine as I had anticipated due to a little snafu on Saturday. Kyle called me up (thank God) to let me know that Kinko’s, where I had planned to get my poster printed …

August 1, 2007 – 7:10 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Fundamentals, Typography | Comments (2)