So, I finished my thesis project. It’s portbou1940.com: a hypertext narrative examining the death of German-Jewish social critic, philosopher, and dialectical historian Walter Benjamin. I’ll be working on revising the written thesis this month, and turn it in next month; the official conferral of my masters degree will be in [...]
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
strategy + progress
strategy + progress
Welcome to positdesign 2011! Prepare for a major overhaul to this site, and a lot of details on my masters thesis, in upcoming months. For my thesis project, I’ll be describing the death of Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish cultural critic who most people accept committed suicide in Portbou, Spain, in [...]
final project
final project
Here’s my final project from the truly exception Harvard Extension School course “Expository Writing E-48 : Multimedia Communication: Principles of Visual Rhetoric.” Probably one of the best classes I’ve taken in my ten years of availing myself of my favorite job perk. I normally hate group projects, but Jesse and [...]
Design Geek Review: Mad Men
Design Geek Review: Mad Men
Three things that made me happy this Sunday: Helvetica poster! Artist’s maquette in Peggy’s office! Underwood typewriter ad framed above Allison’s desk!
all that is wrong in the universe
all that is wrong in the universe
While this “pink turd” (to borrow and slightly tweak Gruber‘s lovely turn of phrase) is truly, truly hideous, it actually is pretty much on par with the kind of clueless-about-half-the-species sort of whiz kids who named the iPad. Just my two thoughts on an item at digitaldaily.com
fun without prefixes
fun without prefixes
This is brilliant: It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a [...]
pinbOut
pinbOut
Very busy with classes, so here’s one of my programming projects to tide you over. I call it pinbOut; it’s a small video game somewhere between pinball and breakout (aka brickbreaker, but more properly arkanoid). http://positdesign.com/media/pinbout/ Player one (white) is controlled with the z and x keys; player two (black) [...]
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!
In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of last year’s ALD post. But I’m already planning something all-out for next year. So this one’s a quickie. Much of tech [...]
I built this
I built this
A “playful paint program” that you can play with, at http://positdesign.com/media/paintplay/
a childhood favorite, bleakened
a childhood favorite, bleakened
I utterly love Werner Herzog. There’s really just no two ways around it. I’m also pretty certain that this is the first book I ever read the whole text of out loud to my mother, which she claims happened when I was 2. via coilhouse magazine.
fictional style icons — part four of five
fictional style icons — part four of five
This project was interrupted by the tragic death of Lee Alexander McQueen. He’s one of the most important fashion figures in my lifetime. He was BFF to my most perfect muse & inspiration, Isabella Blow. She discovered* him at fashion college, bought his entire senior thesis. Her eye and aesthetic [...]
fictional style icons — part three of five
fictional style icons — part three of five
It’s Fashion Week! So, inspired by galadarling, I wanted to highlight some of my own fictional style icons. Number 3: Jane Lane.
