Category Archives: Seminar I

Long Time No Blog

Well, it’s certainly been a long time since I’ve written anything here. The semester ended, winter break is now more than half-way over, and I’m finally going to put up some more stuff. Wish I could say I was taking a NOSO, but the truth is I just haven’t been blogging. Break has been great …

January 4, 2008 – 6:55 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Thinking, Music, Seminar I | Comments (0)

Meaning and its Disappearance

We’ve been looking a lot recently at methods of design, and how designers come to invent. Dick Buchanan talked to us yesterday about ‘topics’ (in the Aristotelian sense), and how (good) designers use topics, or placements, to escape the shackles of meaning. As an example, if I say ‘book,’ you will probably form a rather …

November 13, 2007 – 10:09 pm | By Paul | Posted in Design Thinking, Seminar I | Comments (2)

Long time, no blog

So, I’ve obviously been pretty lazy about updating the old blog here. The truth is that I’ve been so ridiculously busy that I simply haven’t had time (I prioritize sleep over blogging, and I barely sleep so…). Anyway, I’ve completed several projects that I was pretty happy with, and would put them up here, but …

November 12, 2007 – 1:00 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Thinking, Seminar I | Comments (2)