Category: words

  • ARAC Day 06

    Karin arrived last night after an exhausting drive up from Denver. Today we visited Aspen and a farmers’ market just off of Main and Galena. I bought some chocolate from one of the stalls and roasted green chiles from another. We went to Clark’s Pharmacy and picked up some dry goods: gloves, baseball cap, coasters.…

  • ARAC Day 05

    log of activities extract RGB #hex values from the Faber-Castell web page for the PITT Artist Pen Brush so I might match my sketchbooks on screen. This took far longer than I intended. Now I have an html version and a txt file. The former has a preview. The source is Faber-Castell itself. A120 ultramarine…

  • ARAC Day 04

    A list of what I’m doing, as I’m doing it: wore the Somos Visibles shirt played Zelda III for ~twenty minutes. yesterday I played for about 30 minutes. am currently in the east palace looking for the big key. I have been collecting arrows, and have been promised a treasure that will defeat armored foes…

  • ARAC Day 03

    A log of today’s activities: printed from Juan Sketchbook HiRes tiff files 41 images ganged in Preview print dialogue box 9 images per sheet (layout) Premium Matte Paper (printer setting) nominally 200% scale (preview setting) Kozo paper 18″ x 12″ (Arch B) created custom paper size printed random pixel art from Juan & Beanstalk 2004…

  • ARAC Day 02

    Checklist: learned how to treat PlayDate handheld console as a data drive in browser on play.date I exported/downloaded PDX of Juan & Beanstalk hello world. The website (play.date/pulp) invokes a pop-up window that was blocked by Firefox browser by default. Nothing happened. I didn’t notice and thought it was my error. I downloaded again from…

  • ARAC Visit Day 01

    Today was the first productive day of my Visiting Artist gig at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (ARAC). After breakfast I was given a tour of the campus by Olivia Martinez. I’m still processing how amazing this place is and so I can’t go into more detail right now. After the tour I was shown to…

  • Cultures of Typographic Design

    Cultures of Typographic Design
  • To Read: Future of Design Education website

    Donald Norman called for contributors on the PhD in design website at the end of 2020 who would participate in a very large (re)evaluation of design pedagogy world wide. Thanks in no small part to Norman’s influence as an attractor, two hundred people offered their service. Norman et al have now launched a website and…

  • To Read:: Designing Design Education: White Book on the Future of Design Education

    This book is published in 2021 and is the result of a significant amount of work on the continent of Europe. There is another, similar effort to trouble and tease out the future(s) of design education that is being organized by Donald Norman and which is already drawing criticisms for the US-centricity of its foundational…

  • To Read: Designing Constructionist Future – MIT Press

    Seymour Papert studied with – and critiqued and extended – Piaget as part of Papert’s research into early models for Machine Learning. Papert defined constructionism such that we learn through/by constructing artifacts that are meaningful to us and through/by sharing them with audiences who are meaningful to us. I have seen a relationship between constructionism…