Rapid prototyping isn’t about validating a concept, it’s about deepening the learning process. It’s about getting past the obvious ideas and on to the good stuff, faster. Make your thoughts tangible and take them for a test-drive.
The tale of a man building the most beautiful, but most dangerous machine.
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Some of the most interesting revitalization work in Savannah is coming not from the traditional–and often unsuccessful–saviors of decayed neighborhoods. It’s coming from design students, who are earnestly trying to find ways to work with local residents without igniting suspicion of outsiders wielding big ideas.
Designers know how to throw a good conference, and the 2012 Design Ethos conference in Savannah, Georgia, was no exception. Conferences like this play an essential role in the evolution of the art and science of our work. (more…)
I would like to share a story about one of the most exciting weekends of all time. This past April I was accepted to participate in 3 Day Startup in San Antonio (more…)
My MFA thesis sent me into a Design space that I can’t imagine any of my friends or colleagues guessing I would have ever found myself in. Local food?! At twenty-seven years I could barely feed myself, let alone feed myself well. (more…)
The recent string catastrophes that landed on several of Airbnb’s users has highlighted a critical shortcoming in the service’s role as a broker of space among total strangers. How do you know you can trust that person on the other end (more…)
In universal algebra and in model theory, a reduct of an algebraic structure is obtained by omitting some of the operations and relations of that structure. The converse of reduct is expansion. Wikipedia
Early-stage collaborative way-finding is a messy good time. Teams dive head first into abject calamity, gobbled up in an avalanche of complexity and losing all sense of up or down, but soon identify patterns and relationships (more…)
A few hours after our initial attempt we piled back into our jeeps and started back up the hill. The landslide had been cleared and traffic was well on its way. The paved two-lane highway soon switched to a one-lane dirt track (more…)
Our first attempt to trek up to Khardung La Pass was foiled by a landslide, so took the opportunity to stroll around Leh and absorb street life on a sunny afternoon.
A few shots from an afternoon spent in Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh. The view from the roof was absolutely breathtaking.. I would have just had my mail forwarded and moved in, but the monks weren’t taking new roomies.
It may be hard to throw out old CD’s, but it’s fairly easy to box them all up and mail them to your friends. A few years ago I tried replacing the jewel cases with soft cases, but ended up with a 50/50 split. (more…)
Let loose the VAIO! In a previous life, this was my life. I was a web designer and online undergrad who lived in central Nebraska but commuted (almost weekly) to Denver to practice, write, record, and rock out (more…)