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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.

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…