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design

12
Jun

Cities, urban interfaces, and consequential strangers.

I heard a piece on WYPR the other day on consequential strangers and how important they are in our daily
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12
Jun

No design is good design.

Last semester, I taught a course on visualizing information at MICA. I used Tufte's first book, The Visual
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12
Jun

Urban pattern libraries.

In the morning the city Spreads its wings Making a song In stone that sings.  In the evening the city
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12
Jun

White space and the city.

My post using Omm Writer – beautiful white space for writing in.  I have always, always loved snow, having spent most
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12
Jun

Espresso, typography, and the Four Ms.

Photograph of a type assignment submitted by Cécile Ingarao for my Typography II course at MICA, Spring 2009. Have you
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12
Jun

Silica cluster.

On the steps of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. This taken with my Holga (I think), on one of
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12
Jun

Grungi frutti.

Near Fell's Point in Baltimore, on my way back from taking Michaela to work. She's learning
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12
Jun

Brew bar.

via www.flickr.com On our trip to Philly on Saturday, we found – just by chance while walking from Independence
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12
Jun

Cities and the quiet interface.

She walked by just as I was taking the shot. This little old lady next to the tall, glass, modern
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12
Jun

Urban interaction.

In my ongoing thinking about the city as an interface – as an operating system, if you will, of this thing
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