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December 22, 2004

Winter "Break"

I'm off for winter break, which involves trips to Baltimore for Christmas festivities, then off to San Francisco for job interviews and kindergarten tours (for my daughter). Somewhere in between I have to finalize the syllabus for the Interface and Interaction Design class I'm teaching, which starts January 10th. It's a substantial overhaul from last year's class, both in terms of projects and curriculum.

In any case, I hope you have a great and festive holiday season and I'll blog you next year.

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December 19, 2004

Thesis Project Poster

I put together a poster (393k pdf) of this project for presentation at CMU and possibly at CHI and/or the IA Summit. I've submitted proposals and (for CHI) a paper in support of showing there, so we'll see.

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Final Typography Project


Above is an image from my final typography project: two spreads and the front and back cover of a fake literary/arts journal called Cadence. I chose the 20th anniversary of White Noise, Don DeLillo's National Book Award-winning novel, as my subject matter.

Unfortunately, because of how I made this project (more on that in a second), I can't really post something that's going to do the final piece justice; even a pdf isn't going to look right.

In order to get an arty, grainy, 'zine-like feel, I used a technique that my professor Kristin Hughes taught me. First, you print out your pages backwards and then xerox them. Then you take lacquer thinner and paint it onto a sheet of newsprint (and thus stink up half of the second floor of the design building), then press the xerox onto the newsprint, smoothing it down. When you peel the xerox off the newsprint, the ink from the copy sticks onto the newsprint, giving it the texture you can sort of see above. It's a neat effect.

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