Monthly Archives: September 2007

Yard Sculpture

Can you tell it’s my day off from the number of posts I’m putting up? Gotta play catch-up sometime. Anyway the photo below is over one of my neighbors’ front yard. I really like these (this?) sculpture, and think that there is something about this aesthetic that will be coming into vogue in the future …

September 28, 2007 – 9:49 am | By Paul | Posted in CoolHunting, Design Thinking, Photography | Comments (0)

Poster Critique

EDIT 8.27.12===================== As of August 2012 I can now look back on the poster below and say with great confidence that it was flippin’ awful and anyone who liked it was either just being nice or trying really hard to find positive attributes. In retrospect, this poster was my first grad school deliverable and I …

September 28, 2007 – 9:28 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Process, Design Thinking | Comments (0)

Slugs!

So, two mornings ago I woke up earlier than usual. I went outside for my morning smoke and was surprised (and a little disgusted), to find a whole family of giant slugs crawling around my backyard! My memory of slugs when I was a child is that they were small fleshy colored things no longer …

September 28, 2007 – 9:00 am | By Paul | Posted in Humor, Photography | Comments (1)

A Weekend Off

After having projects due in every class (except seminar, for which we had the normal difficult readings), we got the weekend off (hooray!). So, I promptly headed for DC to visit my good friend and occasional musical collaborator Matt Treskon. I snapped some photos in DC – I’ve decided I want to become a coolhunter …

September 24, 2007 – 8:37 am | By Paul | Posted in CoolHunting, Photography | Comments (0)

Last Week’s Projects

Just because I love to share, and because I’m enjoying cataloging my own design development, Here are the three projects that made last week so work-heavy. First, and most importantly, my self portrait poster. This poster was printed at 44″ wide by 33″ tall, so you won’t be able to see it all that well …

September 22, 2007 – 8:52 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Flash, Music, Typography | Comments (0)

Helvetica

Emily and I went to see the movie “Helvetica” last night. Helvetica is a documentary about the history of the type face by the same name. A great movie that provided an interesting look into a narrow sub-sect of design culture. I am not generally able to identify specific type faces, but I’m going to …

September 15, 2007 – 10:56 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Music, Typography | Comments (0)

Digital Square

For Shelly Evanson’s Introduction to Interaction course we were told to create a digital square that invited dragging, turning, and rubbing. It took a whole lot of new actionscript and a helpful tutorial on kirupa.com, but here it is, try it out and see what you think: Digital Square In other news, I’m working on …

September 12, 2007 – 6:27 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Process, Flash | Comments (1)

Seminar

Sitting in Dick Buchanan’s seminar this morning, I was again feeling a bit confused. Dick is an incredibly cerebral man, and a philosopher rather than a designer by trade. I believe that the seminar exists to teach us a new way of thinking, and I look forward to this. For homework we read a short …

September 5, 2007 – 9:24 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Thinking | Comments (0)

Week 1 of Semester 1

Our first week of class has been tons of fun. The classes are a joy – especially Shelly Evanson’s which is focusing very much on the topics of most interest to me. One of the first readings was an article by Tog which I had actually read before (a sure sign we’re looking at the …

September 3, 2007 – 11:20 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Process | Comments (0)