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While organizing information graphically for these more complex control panels, I also discovered a life-long fascination with psychology after we encountered the consumers’ resistance to touching the screens. Many research subjects recalled maternal admonishment about sitting too close to or touching their home TVs. That was a lesson that has lasted throughout my career–understanding and…
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bmdesign: Game-play education techniques (via MIT Creates The One Video Game You’ll Be Thrilled To See Your Kid Get Hooked On | Fast Company)
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(via swissmiss | Balancing Blocks)
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With its open-ended nature and robust creation tools, Minecraft has been used to create some amazing things. And as one teacher learned, those very same elements that make the game so compelling also make it a great educational tool. Around two months ago, Joel Levin, a computer teacher at Manhattan’s Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School,…
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Jan Van Toorn Q&A: Advice for a student designer (by D&AD) (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Jan Van Toorn Q&A: Advice for a student designer (by D&AD) (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Sure, there were some pretty fantastic creations and ideas explored during the first exercises and free-build portion of my workshop on Sunday, but when I asked the thirty odd visitors age 4-72 whether they wanted to build something impossibly tall, the room became electric and everyone’s eyes opened more than a little bit wider than…
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repetitionisaformoffuckingchange: Jeff Koons Must Die! (Hunter Jonakin)
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The poster above, by Jan van Toorn for the Van Abbemuseum, is a museum exhibition promotion but it is also a bold critique. It manages to disclose the banalities of both the art market and of accepted visual communication processes. The work represents Van Toorn’s career-long concern with reclaiming the media as a channel of…