Archive for Fall 2009 category:

Borealis


Published on December 23rd, 2009
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The Swingy Thingy (A Media Controller)


Published on November 15th, 2009
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The Swingy ThingyTM media controller was born out of the imaginations of Matt Ganucheau, Molly Schwartz and I. It originally started out as a sort of reverse zoetrope, having the user walk around the controller and moving the sound and video along with him or her. After much debate of what content to use and [...]

Visualizing Data…the beginning of the end


Published on November 15th, 2009
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Last.fm…the final frontier. Well…just the final. Last.fm has a ton of data available from albums and artists to users and events. The messy web that could wind up being created from their API is both exciting and frightening.

Color on Color


Published on November 8th, 2009
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Color theory and perception became a much more interesting concept after really delving into how it works. It apparently enhanced my ability to figure out the subtle differences in hues. Unless a 4 is a more popular score in the hue test than I think.

Thiiiiiings in Spaaaaaaaaace


Published on October 29th, 2009
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Howdy neighborino! You cannot grow a beard in space. But I have a beard. Then you’re an alien. …….no I’m not.

AK vs. Toxi


Published on October 29th, 2009
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Aaron Koblin has a major interest in using data provided by large numbers of people without them knowing the end goal. As interesting as that might be, I find those pieces the least interesting of his work.

Logo You Don’t


Published on October 26th, 2009
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My logo for ITP started one way, then after some sketching on the subway, went somewhere completely different. Here’s my first logo attempt. My next attempt started with some sketching, because that seems to be the way to really do things like this. After seeing all the iterations of logos as done by Joe Finnochiaro, [...]

Business Card – Take 2


Published on October 19th, 2009
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After finishing this up, I think I need to go in a completely different direction. I would probably never use this as a real business card, but I think this is a vast improvement over the original.

A Bit of Logo Design


Published on October 18th, 2009
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After looking through a good number of logos, including two of the masters, Saul Bass and Paul Rand, I decided that Joe Finocchiaro’s logo work seems to truly catch my eye for design. A lot of his work involves updating print logos for digital use. The type used in his logos are very clean, making [...]

The Grass is Always Greener…when it’s not so windy


Published on October 15th, 2009
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Using Yahoo Weather, I took the wind speed and direction and made it into something a little easier to understand.  I made some blades of grass and some wind trails.  It’s definitely in progress and needs a bit of work, but I think it’s a good demonstration.  There’s one weird glitch where if the number [...]

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