mfa

12
Jun
Jocelyn Robert: Experimental Sound and Video

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
How Steve Jobs got me through grad school.

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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12
Jun
She said form. He said function.

She said form. He said function.

2011 Fiat 500. Photo via blog.al.com I drive a Toyota RAV4, which is not something I’m very
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12
Jun
Nasty Golden Retrievers and the MFA.

Nasty Golden Retrievers and the MFA.

I love that I get home before Will sometimes now that I no longer spend three hours a day on
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12
Jun
On design labs.

On design labs.

In case you’re wondering, I took a little haitus to migrate my blog from Typepad to WordPress. You’ll
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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

I want new letters.

The fact that graduate design programs bestow upon their students the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree is antiquated and
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12
Jun

Deux metros.

originally uploaded by Neylano. One thing I’m really looking forward to about moving to DC (besides a change from
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12
Jun

Why I went to grad school.

“Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but
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12
Jun

Ha.

This is kind of funny. I’ve been anonymously quoted in the online Yale alumni magazine. It was from a