5: Classes

New year, new classes. Here they are! Graduate Design Seminar II: Topics in Communication Design Graduate Design Studio II Research Methods for Human-Centered Design Computing for the Arts with Processing Calligraphy I See you there or never!

PHAMETRICS // 20

(Photo thanks to Vinita Israni) What a busy month! End of my first semester of grad school and end of the year! There was so much free food during finals week. Cookies flowed like water. I think 2014 has to be a good year: fourteen is one of my lucky numbers! My birthday is on the 14th.…

5: Final projects

I am frozen from the cold breeze of ‘overwhelmed’ s as I approach my last week of my first semester at Carnegie Mellon.   One product-service innovation/design philosophy paper. Two interactive heteronym visualizations. (Using Adobe Edge) One interactive data visualization using processing. One video sketch of said visualization being implemented in a real life circumstance. One argument…

5: Good Habits

Be on time. Really listen. No phones, no laptops, just you and the person talking. Make eye contact. Be proactive. Find your own solutions. Be positive. If you can’t be positive (which you can), at least be hilarious. Act kindly. It will never go wrong.   Things I strive to do every day. I would…