September 2013 archive

7 in 7 – Day 2 – Line Drawing

The second project in this series is a line drawing of a wolf howling at the moon. It represents the villain of Little Red Riding Hood. I used micron pens on paper. No lines cross in this piece. The border is painted with acrylic, for the iconic color of this fairy tale. I burnt the …

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7 in 7 – Day 1 – Wire

Aside from time, I have two constraints for this project series: Theme: The Inherent Darkness of Fairy Tales Media: Each project will be in a different medium. My first project is a barbed wire apple. It is the first in my series as a commentary on the inherent darkness of fairy tales. It represents the …

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In Support of Appropriations and Mashup Culture

We live in a culture that assigns great importance (rightly so) to recycling, reusing, and repurposing. The main purpose is to get the most out of our limited resources, to use the entire buffalo. A secondary purpose, which the concept of mash-ups certainly explores, is to not reinvent the wheel. There’s a great quote given …

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Mashup Response

For the readings on mashups, I thought about how interesting it was to explore a term that seems relatively in its infancy, even within the realm of new media design. It seemed like a lot of the authors didn’t want to tie it down to one specific thing, however they could concretely trace the history …

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7 of 7in7

For the last project my constrain was to redesign touch screen buttons, without replacing their functionality with gestures. That basically means, that I just wanted to make a uniform visual scheme for using buttons in mobile apps. The reason I picked this was because I was thinking about how most mobile designers are trying to …

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7 in 7 — Day 7 — Thinking about Apple’s new product ‘iPhone 5c’

  Yesterday Apple has a new product published — iPhone 5c, it is colorful, like nano, I curious about if Jobs knows this new product, how would he think about iPhone turns to colorful? So, I did this wallpaper.

7 in 7 — Day 6 — First contact with Arduino

  I did a RGB light with Arduino. When I saw it shining, I’m exciting.

7 in 7 Day 1 – DIY LA tour Eiffel

Today, it is my first day of 7 in 7 project. I decided to use my trash to make my own Eiffel Tower. Also, my roommate works at Rag&Bone. Everyday, she uses different fabrics to create her own dress collection. So, i added some of fabrics on my eiffel tower:   First, I picked some …

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Week 3 – Reading Assignment Day 2

Week 3 – Reading Assignment Day 2   I believe that the Mashup Readings for Week 3 can be framed really well in context with Monday’s reading on Prototyping. To frame this context we jump from he representational role of prototyping to the tangent role of problem solving. There is a clear theme in almost …

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7 in 7 — Day 5 — The Great Gatsby

  Recently I watch a movie ‘The Great Gatsby’, I feel it is a good movie, so I did this just for fun. When she chooses the red heart, a romantic music will be show, the lyrics is’ Will you still love when I’m no longer young and beautiful?’, and when she chooses the money …

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