A few weekends ago a few MGDs let loose and got their print on. Bow chicka wow wow.
Month: February 2017
A visual language rooted in history & culture
I am still in the infant stages of my research on Afrikan Typographic System and Visual Languages… but Afrika has already begun giving voice to my design practices.
Design- and data-minded visualizations
NCSU D. H. Hill Library Data Visualization Workshop x Master of Graphic Design – New Information Environment – Data Stories: Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics
The addiction of making diagrams
The idea was to make diagrams to organize my thoughts and hope that they will justify the research that I am working on. I thought I would share some of the diagrams that I have made.
You can jump and I will fly
I think to say that individual creativity being sacrificed because of our choices to focus on the big picture of social stability is overly dramatic.
What am I afraid of?
When I matriculated at NC State last semester, I took several steps to help myself transition from being a full-time artist to a graphic design masters student. In the past, I found that I had […]
Collaborative design workshop
We gathered together to define YesAnd as a publication, a resource, and a personal space.
Final destination : NCSU College of Design materials lab
Come learn all about the magical materials lab at the College of Design! Be careful though, you may lose a finger! (You probably won’t but nothings’ impossible)
Surely obeying orders could only be a good thing
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
And down the VR rabbit hole we go
Communication and correspondence are vital parts of human life and technology and communication are directly related. As technology evolves, so does correspondence. For example, where as our communication might once have consisted of hand written letters […]
Activity Theory + Feline Identity
Since learning about Activity Theory, I’ve fallen prone to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (frequency illusion) and I’m seeing traces of AT everywhere…
Sons Of Anarchy
Regardless of who has “permission” to access certain technology or software, we are the sons and daughters of a culture that finds at least ten loopholes for every obstacle.
Dragon – fly
Over the city and through the clouds, to grandmothers house we go…
We are as gods
By changing my understanding of hacking as a means to pursue knowledge and innovation, I can create a method for discovery.
Can you tell we cheated?
While completing a conditional design exercise we learned that designers have trouble with rules.
Ephemerality is control
Can we interact more freely as social creatures in the digital realm when we are deeply attached to the ideas of permanence and collection?
Zoning out…
Where do you find yourself when you zone out during a conversation? Will you find yourself in the same place during a VR experience?
Immersive storytelling – a refugee perspective
While executive orders are signed and people are being detained at airports, we can take a few minutes to realize what someone who has been forced to flee from their home might be experiencing. For […]
What’s justin bieber doing here?
I never thought I’d say it or think it but I think Justin Bieber did something right, and now I can’t look away.