In the beautiful wisdom of of the Reading Rainbow theme song, I’d like to invite you all to take a look, because it’s in a book. A reading rainbow. Something magical happened that will change my life for the better ever after. I learned that I can borrow audiobooks from the San Francisco library from an…
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5: books James Victore recommends
Pretty diverse set, no? I want to give couple of them try. But he’s right about me not wanting to read Ralph’s again. I really agree that it’s our immersion in the world that helps make us diverse and strong designers. James Victore, for those of you new to the scene, is a graphic designer…
What I know now // 21
The Best Book Covers of 2014 In the midst of the turmoil that is grad life, I still will share the things I’m learning with you.
What I know now // 017
It’s been a long time, but to be fair, I wasn’t on my computer as much in Switzerland and thus wasn’t reading as many articles. While I was putting these together I was remembering how wonderful each was. I hope you check some of them out, they’re a real treat. And I want to see…
10: Most influential books
I saw someone complete this challenge on Facebook and as an English-major-for-life I was super intrigued. This is not your run-of-the-mill spam chain. This is book business! I started at the bottom and then I decided to list them all before I kept writing about them and now, looking over this list, it looks a…
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What I’m reading over winter break…
So. Excited. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks (non-fiction, neuroscience) What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction, social science) How to Do Things with Language by JL Austin (non-fiction, language philosophy) Things That Make Us Smart: Defending human attributes in the age of machines by Donald Norman (non-fiction, design) Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (fiction, Russian classic) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki…
What I know now // 010
Wear your beret
This is the first paper we had to write my for my Narrative & Argument class. I felt like I could share it here because it’s the sort of thing I would talk about anyway. But I also recorded myself reading it above because I thought it might be slightly more enjoyable since it is…
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A Year in New York from Andrew Clancy on Vimeo.