Thesis Defense – Abridged
This past month has been a crazy time warp. So many long days that lead into so many long nights; days lost their meaning. Finally, after a lot of writing and re-writing, our thesis has been defended. Improving cycling in Philadelphia by addressing issues at all levels, from the street to the city to the...continue reading
National Bike Summit
The National Bike Summit is an annual event held in Washington D.C. focused on bringing advocates of cycling together to lobby for better bike support at the national level. This year’s focus was on the MAP-21 bill and ensuring it maintained dedicated funding for cycling infrastructure. Nick and I recently returned from the three day...continue reading
Design Tool Follow Up
Finally dedicating a post (a quick one, but one none the less) to the development of the design tool from last semester. When beginning development of the tool, I first considered what a tool could be. After speaking with other designers and continuing my research I determined it should be a physical object. Once this...continue reading
Interactive Media
Last semester I was a teachers assistant for Slavko Milekic’s Interactive Media class. This is a graduate class taught in the Art and Design Education Department. It is a class for aspiring art and design teachers to gain a better understanding of the capabilities of technology today via hands on projects. The class was structured...continue reading
Mo' pinup space
As Nick and I have begun to work again, we’ve quickly discovered that we lack sufficient pinup space. What to do, what to do? Make some more obviously. We hammered out a quick design, moving from the t-shaped base, like the whiteboards we have, to an A-frame for strength and simplicity. We then Snagged some...continue reading
Back At It!
Right back at it. The holiday break was great. A nice time away. Visited friends and family saw a lot of the Western North Carolina mountains. Good stuff. Now, though, it is work time. Nick and I are taking our thesis project to the next step. We are looking at building an argument around the...continue reading
Update: City Limits
I just wanted to post a quick update that the infographic I worked on for City Limits has now been published! Pretty psyched. There were just few small changes, font and color and such, which I expected, so no biggie. Check it out here. It is on pages 34 and 35 of the magazine.continue reading
Personal Progression
As classes draw to a close, projects continue to wrap up. We don’t have Methods class critiques until next Tuesday but the work is pretty much done. The most interesting of the three projects, for me, was of course the personal map of the last decade. I evaluated myself in terms of my skills, experiences...continue reading
Penn Medicine Progress Presentation & Prototype
The Presentation: A few weeks ago, before Thanksgiving, my studio team presented our progress to some of the executives at UPHS. It was structured to explain our process and how we used it to develop a set of high and mid-level themes of common perspectives on the culture of learning and sharing within their healthcare...continue reading
