This weekend I took some time out from what has been a busy final semester and carved this Sendak pumkin. This is the first time I’ve carved a pumpkin in at least the past 10 years. Does it look like the guy from Where the Wild Things Are? [...]
October 25th, 2009 - 4:09 am § in Blog
Welcome to the new site!
Welcome! After a period of consideration, I decided to manage my portfolio site with WordPress instead of with Google AppEngine. The decision had to do with several factors, including the nature of the content I tend to update, my desire to work with a simple CMS, and my previous experience with the[...]
October 9th, 2009 - 2:07 pm § in Blog
Do You Speak Superbunny?
This semester I’m taking a course in Graphic Design. This is the outcome of one of the labs we did the other day. I was working on the bunny in class on Wednesday and the instructor came over and said “how about some gradients?” So that’s what I did. Enjoy. [...]
Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge: Clothing/Closet Metaphor
Tonight was the U-M SOCHI kickoff for the Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge, a challenge wherein Mozilla encourages students to innovate and experiment in user interface design. After some rapid sketching, we quickly formed teams and developed some of the concepts that had been sketched out. [...]
Personas: Good Man, Bad Man, Funnyman, Chick
Personas by Aaron Zinman is an online component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit put on by the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. The installation crawls the web and aggregates a bunch of data, which it then turns into the color/word bars that you see below. After an initial obligatory se[...]
August 27th, 2009 - 1:32 am § in Blog
The Long Say
I spent some time today on a mini-project called The Long Say. Ironically (because I have designs toward making this a quick post), the blog focuses on collecting long essays from folks. I just did the whole deploy to my social network thing, and I am now officially excited about it. Check it out: [...]