April 2012
95 posts
I rather teach you something than sell you...
speckledwords:
Over the course of this semester we were tasked with making a thousand dollars within a month for our entrepreneur design class. And I have completely failed at hitting this mark, and, I am okay with this. My attention had been scattered from the start, unsure of what to spend my efforts focusing on, I took on too many projects without giving any singular one enough attention. I...
The Man I'd Like to Meet in the Future
barbaradewilde:
Who would I really want to meet in the world of design and technology? The problem I find, is that if I were to email my hero and the email was answered, would I really be able to carry on a proper conversation? I think this is especially true for the man I’d like to meet, James Bridle, the artist and futurist. James Bridle has been working on many remarkable projects, his...
Never Forget →
“Most grad schools look for people who have worked for a couple years after graduating from college. On the surface, this may seem like a search for “accomplishments”. But it really isn’t. If you read between the lines, what it’s really asking for is enough experience in the outside world to be frustrated by something. I think this frustration is incredibly helpful in having a strong point...
Lesson on Launching →
From Nikki
Problems worth solving
prachipundeer:
Jon Kolko visited us last week. He mentioned two important things. One: that we have become very good at designing, but we are terrible at choosing worthwhile things to design for. Two: the cost of making something has become extremely low, almost 0, especially web and digital services. So now we have the luxury to ask what problems we should solve.
He said there are three kinds...
T-60: Shh, I'm Working
tonyhschu:
Part of the MFA Interaction Design Weekly Thesis Blog series - 5 of 64
I am not sure what ought to be my biggest takeaway from Jon Kolko’s visit to SVA this past week ought to be. One sentiment does stick out though. While he did not actually use these words, the message was this.
“Stop making excuses. Stop waiting for permission. Go do what is important already.”
I can even...
Kits & Customized Bookbinding are Available Now!
shanshangao:
Finally, OBOo is alive now!
Visit it here www.oboonotebook.com
so many interesting things, and now what?
joonseobae:
I don’t know if it’s just me or not, but I get really excited about learning about human psychology. I took a intro psychology in undergrad once, and it was all about neurobiology, which made psychology really unattractive to me. It was interesting, but I was more interested in learning the reason behind all the human behaviors and less interested in what each brain parts do.
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What's the most important thing I can be doing...
speckledwords:
This is a thought provoked by Jon Kolko, a designer I have greatly admired since entering undergraduate school. I recently had the opportunity to meet him. As I partially joke, I “twitter-nagged” him into coming up to New York. The situation and the multiple parties involved in that twitter conversation are too convoluted to express here, but it’s suffice to say it worked. Jon...
Metro Fitter
joonseobae:
Have you ever seen a subway station in New York with all these discarded MetroCards on the floor like this photo? Okay, maybe not this bad, but I definitely have seen a station floors with lots of discarded MetroCards. So My teammate Myn Kang and I decided to tackle this problem while we do our $1000 final project for our Entrepreneurial Design class.
Before I lived in New York,...
May the force be with you: Reflection on Foxconn... →
forceinyourlife:
Few days ago, I watched a short 3-min video documenting how Ipad is made in Foxconn Factory located in China. Foxconn is a chinese electronics manufacturing factory where many of famous electronics are manufactured including Ipad, Iphone, Kindle, Playstation 3 and Wii. In the video, they explain…
Watchminnieblogs:
Build Your Social Fan Base Through SoundCloud
This is an infographic video explaining how musicians can use SoundCloud to spread their music to their networks. Power of internet is nothing new, but I wish more musicians, designers and artists realize how easy it is to use internet and social media to their benefit in spreading their creations as well as reaching a massive...
Storm Ending and other reflections
sanarao:
In a poem title ‘Storm Ending’ Jean Toomer writes:
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
Great, hollow, bell-like flowers,
Rumbling in the wind,
Stretching clappers to strike our ears …
Full-lipped flowers
Bitten by the sun
Bleeding rain
Dripping rain like golden honey—
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.
Today is the last day of our Entrepreneurial Design course....
Win the Contest
barbaradewilde:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are 286,100 professional graphic designers in the United States. They project that this number will grow to 323,100 by the year 2018, an increase of 36,000 jobs. The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) accredits about 300 post secondary institutions with degree-granting programs in graphic design. If the...
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Connecting the cheese
gurivenstad:
Wonderful things have happened since the word about The Cheese Map came out. I’ve gotten in touch with cheese enthusiasts from all over the world, and already learned a lot more about strange and exotic cheeses I hadn’t heard of before. Doing a Kickstarter turns out to be a great way to reach out to other people with your ideas. Cheese schools have contacted me and asked me if I...
“But if I’m working on products and services that are explicitly intended to...”
– Collateral Damage | Austin Center for Design
Two weeks ago, Jon Kolko visited SVA and spoke about social innovation and tackling wicked problem using design thinking. At the end of the session, I asked him about the difference between “Lean Startup” style thinking, and user centred design. Jon’s...
“Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the...”
– Quotes that Inspire Acumen Fund: John W. Gardner « Acumen Fund Blog
(via James Wu)
Which Class Should I Teach?
tonyhschu:
Update: After hearing Adam Braum speak at the Penny Conference, I am going to donate the proceeds for this class to Pencils of Promise. Let me know which class you want on twitter @tonyhschu!
I’ve run the “Learning HTML through the Lens of Typography” classes three times now, and the fourth class is coming up this Saturday. I’ve learned a bunch of lessons from the classes, but...
Lessons on launching →
From Nikki about Postcard Poets
Hypocrisy of a designer
minnieblogs:
On my first Facebook ad ever, with the pressure to write something within 90 characters, there I wrote it: Website for musicians for $100.
All for the glory of my final project, but for years working at a luxury brand’s e-commerce site, all I was taught to fight for was to sell with style. Not to be ever promotional or loud.
Branching from our projects in Entrepreneurial...
Metro Fitter
joonseobae:
Have you ever seen a subway station in New York with all these discarded MetroCards on the floor like this photo? Okay, maybe not this bad, but I definitely have seen a station floors with lots of discarded MetroCards. So My teammate Myn Kang and I decided to tackle this problem while we do our $1000 final project for our Entrepreneurial Design class.
Before I lived in New York,...
Enforcing Positivity
joonseobae:
This post is such a long overdue, but here it is. This is the Part 2 of Meeting Chris Poole.
One really important idea that I took away from talking to Chris is that enforcing positivity is the most important job that the designer and the people who run a community site must do. One question that I was dying to ask Chris was, who will act responsively when you are anonymous? I...
Glimpses into the future workforce
tomharman:
It’s been 48 hours since the world learnt about Facebook paying $1billion to buy Instagram. 12 employees managing to generate this sort of value over 15 months is an incredible feat. One which comes in stark contrast to a recent experiment I had working on Amazon Mechanical Turk, where I managed to earn 50¢ for an hours work. My mind boggles at the difference between these two...
tonyhschu:
Christian Arca: Why Bother Dreaming?
Christian Arca responded to my blog post Better Dream, wondering if transparency through social media is interfering with our ability to dream:
Now, with their broadcast available it’s much easier to play pretend without actually aspiring. Why bother becoming someone when you can make yourself feel like someone without any of the hard work?...
A tribute to cheese
gurivenstad:
I’ve had a fascination for cheese for as long as I can remember. When I grew up, there was pretty much two types of cheese on my table: “the brown cheese” and “the yellow cheese”. The first one was sweet and the latter a mild, but salty kind of cheese. For a couple of years, my perception of cheese was therefore divided into these two directions.
As I grew older and started to...
A buggy adventure →
50 days of New York Everyday
minseungsong:
As a side project, I’m running an New York Everyday blog. It has been 50 days so far. I would like record short statistics of New York Everyday.
48 Contents posted. mostly pictures, one video and one text. I missed 2 days
54 Followers
850 Page views
385 Reblogs (totally)
114 Likes (totally)
286 Reblogs and 39 Likes (most popular post)
20 different country visitors (1....
Metro Fitter: Final round of prototyping and the...
joonseobae:
So today, we did our final round of prototyping. We finally found the right material. With this material, it’s matte, and we can print with laser printers, which was a very important thing. When we made the earlier prototypes, the material required for us to use inkjet printer, and the material was glossy. It was problematic because even after the ink was dried, it was a bit sticky...
Making opening your mailbox awesome again
A couple days ago, my partner Sana and I put up the landing page of a service we designed called Postcard Poets. It’s a subscription for receiving stories in the mail from your favorite and soon-to-be favorite authors, hand-picked by our curators. We had a session of project updates for our entrepreneurship class today, and while discussing our project, Christina said something that struck me. She...
Thesis Week 2: Data & Social
jsbthesis:
Data and Social, these are the two things I am interested in out of many other things. I am particularly interested in personally collected data, and then share the data with friends to improve the data (positive/healthy data). For this reason, I like a lot of the personal health collecting devices, such as Nike+, fuleband, fitbit and etc. What they have in common is that users...
Skillshare Lessons Learned
tonyhschu:
In March I taught my Skillshare class “Learning HTML through the Lens of Typography” twice. The class was design to demonstrate the underlying organizational principles of HTML and CSS to people who are already familiar with design and typography.
I think I did ok. The feedback I’ve gotten was fairly positive overall. I did learn a few lessons about teaching though, and thought I...
