January 2012
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Dance While Eating: To each their own →
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Yesterday, I went on a DC adventure with friends. And eventually we ended up at the National Gallery of Art. We walked aimlessly around, looking at portraits and paintings. We even checked out the new “Black List” exhibit, which showcases stunningly simplistic photographs of influential African…
Hi, I’m an art major, so it’s only fitting that I defend my people and my...
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December 2011
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Watchtrinacenci:
WHITE RABBIT
Directed by Cassandra Nguyen with the help of Ani Mittra, Phil Cho, Matt Yourshaw, Ken Foglietti, Justin Sottile-Jackson, and myself.
This is a video project I worked on with five other people in my digital video class this semester. We did everything from conception of the idea, creating a screenplay, filming, sound production, animation, video editing, promotions,...
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November 2011
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“In Japanese they say: wabi sabi. Together these two concepts mean “tranquility,...”
– Dieter Rams
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October 2011
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via Frank: Elegance, Lightness, and Nothing →
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There’s an old story that people like telling, untrue as it may be, about writing implements in space. The American space program discovered that normal ink pens didn’t work on missions (no gravity in orbit to pull down the ink), so they spent millions to research and develop a pen that could…
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7 Things Michael Bierut Loves About Design →
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Pentagram partner, Michael Bierut closed the first day of Design at Scale, and did so with mastery and aplomb. He laid out the cliches of what designers supposedly like… and then neatly shot down each one, with a series of things he actually loves. Hugely entertaining and, as with all…
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Good Design
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Design has been an obsession of mine for the past two years—a very short time in the grand scheme of things. When I tell myself that, it seems odd. I can rifle through design articles, books, collections and blogs for hours without a passing thought of hunger or rest. The only nutrition my mind groans for during these fruitful hours is but more knowledge and insight into my newly...
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Steve Jobs & Apple
I usually keep my mouth shut when people hate, but to hate on a guy that just died is whack. Yes, Apple products are overpriced. Yes, Apple products are fetishized beyond reason. Yes, their hardware matches up to models priced a thousand dollars less. And more recently, yes, that 4S release was damn underwhelming.
But at the end of the day, he and Apple proved that design is an integral part of...
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“The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the...”
– Bill Gates
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“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German...”
– Gert Dumbar
September 2011
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August 2011
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Designers vs Coding
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“Do I need to know how to code?” is a question that comes up with sure-fire consistency in design circles. I’ve seen it asked by so many, from uncertain design students in classrooms worried about their chances of landing a job, to seasoned professionals at conferences seeing their pool of print projects slowly evaporate. The question is being asked with even greater frequency as of...
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What Makes Steve Jobs So Great? →
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With all the hullabaloo over Steve Job’s resignation, the public is in one of two camps. The first laments the announcement, reminisces on the past successes of Jobs and ponders the future of Apple. The second rejoices the removal of a terrible dictator who has brainwashed a generation.
Hopefully this article can provide a relatively unbiased view on why Jobs was not a great...
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“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to...”
– Steve Jobs
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July 2011
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