Monthly Archives: February 2009

New Portfolio

I’ve revised my web portfolio – giving it a new and improved look and adding some work (and details about old work).  I’ll probably continue to tweak it, but I’m pretty happy with what’s there now.  I actually did the entire design and development (learning Javascript and jquery in the process) in three days.  The …

February 25, 2009 – 9:12 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Communication Design, Design Process, thesis | Comments (1)

New Music

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Logic Studio this past week – the program really has phenomenal sound quality.  I’ve thrown together a couple tracks: Squishy Dance City Streets and Lights in the Evening Enjoy!  Thanks for listening!

February 16, 2009 – 4:22 pm | By Paul | Posted in Music | Comments (0)

Goodness of Fit

For the independent study my colleagues and I are doing with Hugh Dubberly, we’ve been reading a lot of great old Design Methods movement texts.  Hugh is of the position that these texts are not being taught, and he feels that there is great knowledge to be gained by looking at them, and I can’t …

February 14, 2009 – 11:40 am | By Paul | Posted in Design Thinking | Comments (1)

Code Art

As regular readers will have noticed, I’m on a pretty big generative art kick at the moment.  That said, I’ve been playing around in Processing using the ideas presented by Casey Reas and Marius Watz at the symposium last week, and have posted some shots to Flickr. Here’s a little taste:

February 9, 2009 – 6:33 am | By Paul | Posted in illustration, Processing | Comments (0)

Generative Doormat!

While I’m in the posting mood – I wanted to show off a little demo video I did for a quick assignment in Mark Gross’s Making Things Interact course.  The class has been great fun so far, allowing me to finally learn how to do my own circuit-bending, build things with arduino’s, and play in …

February 4, 2009 – 9:30 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Music | Comments (0)

Generative Systems

I’ve had the great fortune over the past day and a half to attend part of the Code, Form, Space symposium on “generative form and digital fabrication” put together here at CMU by Golan Levin (this is the second mini-symposium Golan has put together while I’ve been here and both have been fantastic).  In particular, …

February 4, 2009 – 9:20 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, CoolHunting, Design Thinking | Comments (2)