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In the past week, I’ve decided to present my thesis as an application for Apple’s new iPad. Orals are just a few days away, but this video already has me thinking about ways to fine tune some of the screen interactions I’ve designed. (Thanks to Linc for sharing this video with me.)

These are some projects that I’ve seen over the past year/months that might help as I start trying to envision a system that has a more spatial personality.

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I’ve wanted to focus my thesis content within the environmental/sustainable realm, and I’ve really been leaning toward honing in on food. I’ve been fighting it for a while, but I know so much more about nutrition, local food, organic, etc. then I do about biofuel and I want to know more. There are a lot of stories out there about school lunches and fighting childhood obesity, so maybe that’s a good entry point into food. Not quite environmental, but in a round about way, I think it connects.

Through Marion Nestle’s blog, I found Fed Up: The School Lunch Project. In what sounds like a cross between Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me and Julie Powell’s Julie/Julia Project, Mrs. Q is a teacher who plans on eating school lunches everyday of 2010 and blogging about it. I could barely make it through Design Camp eating in NCSU’s cafeteria—I wonder if she will make it.

As far as this making the content cut, we shall see. Ethanol does have something to do with food too, so for now, it’s TBD.

Polyvore is a website where users can go to mix and match fashion-based mood boards. Polyvore is similar to one of my mini studies from study 1, the clipping bin storyboard. I think mood boards are a good way to generate the feeling of something—this same type of concept would be interesting to use in argument construction.

Trying to squeeze in some last minute social activities.

The Decade in Design – Design is a Verb – GOOD.

I remember the days back in 2001, when you could just walk into the Genius Bar at the Apple Store…

The Department of Landscape Architecture (LAR) at NCSU’s College of Design held a design competition this fall, calling for the proposition of a new image for the department in the form of a door transparency. I partnered with a grad student from LAR, Luke Wallenbeck, to collaborate on a design for the double doors leading into the LAR studios. In talking with Luke about the new direction of the program, we decided it was important to highlight the transition from the old way of thinking about landscape architecture to newer, more contemporary conventions dealing with urbanization and global population. Our guiding concept became one of migration and progression.

For the design, we chose to explore abstraction along with movement. We submitted four variations of our design, all four incorporating the LAR abbreviation and a migratory pattern of vector shapes. For two of the variations, we layered the graphics over a Sanborn map of Chicago to create depth and texture.

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Happy Fall!

This site is a fun little distraction. The owner, Sarah, sets up vintage and flea market finds in her living room for shoppers to browse. I think my fashion remixers from last semester would appreciate the novelty.

photo from supermarketsarah.com

Over Christmas break I designed an invitation package for my friend Allison’s wedding. It was an exciting project, especially since Allison was a gracious client and was really excited about my suggestions. Allison comes from a laid back, outdoorsy family, so she wanted invites that were elegant yet not so stuffy and formal- her only big specification was no script fonts. Since her reception will be held at a place called Allison’s Woods near Statesville, NC (public forest with lakes, recreation, etc.), she asked that a tree be incorporated into the package in some way. I took the tree imagery a step further by incorporating GMUND’s Savanna paper (in Glowing Massakar) as a pocketfold to house the invitation and corresponding pieces. The paper has a wood-grain texture and is truly beautiful in person.

I paired images of a tree and a pair of birds with Archer for the design of the package and ordered polymer plates from Boxcar Press for printing. I also ordered custom ink colors in chocolate and moss tones from Vanson (via Boxcar). Yesterday Liese, Caroline and I printed all the pieces on the letterpress and they turned out great! Thanks for your help guys- I never would have gotten all this work done without you!