12
Jun
Stagnate or innovate?
Are universities where designers go to die? Sometimes I worry about this, especially when one of my old professors writes
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academia
12
Jun
Back to school.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. And this is the hallway where I’ll be
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12
Jun
On N.W.A., truth in journalism, and free speech.
I don’t know why I am so interested in social justice. I don’t know why I am so
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12
Jun
On touching data.
Touch interface design guidelines dictate that the more simple and limited the gestural language used to control a system, the
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12
Jun
On Learnability Theory and gestural interfaces.
How do humans learn to speak the language of machines? In order to communicate with computers, interfaces embody a set
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12
Jun
What would Gropius do? On how design education is like a bloated OS.
Multicultural typographic interpretations of the 2011 Icograda Design Education Manifesto.
In her essay “Relevance In a Complex World” for the
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12
Jun
Isabel Uria: Paper Engineer.
The term paper engineering refers to artists and designers who work with precisely detailed paper constructions to create pop-up and
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12
Jun
Jocelyn Robert: Experimental Sound and Video
One of the coolest parts about my job is that I sit on a committee to pick visiting artists and
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12
Jun
On a designer embracing the fine arts.
I hate it when people call me an artist instead of a designer. But maybe I shouldn’t. Because art
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12
Jun
How Steve Jobs got me through grad school.
Will is an engineer. I am a designer. When we first got married, I was a Mac, he was a
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