Remás Book Arrival!
It finally happened! This book seemed to have taken a year to make and it’s finally here. Now it’s time for editing. Here’s the digital version it’s based on: Open publication – Free publishing – More designcontinue reading
Remás Redux
School finally dwindled to a close yesterday, or maybe the day before. It was so anti-climactical I didn’t really notice. The public art class is continuing in some form through summer, though, and with all the intern work, thesis and side projects I’ll be doing this summer the formality of the semester ending is relatively...continue reading
Remás: The App
With the semester pretty much over, I thought I’d share the final iteration of the app I’ve been developing. It was most currently informed by the user testing from the festival. That testing yielded results that included facts like: the buttons were too small people enjoyed the “slidy” version more...continue reading
Puebla festival research
Alaina, Alison and I went down to south Philly today for research. The plan was to head down to this big parade and festival put on by the Mexican community, with our questions and work and exchange phone cards for feedback. We were told that the parade/festival was actually an annual thing that happens in...continue reading
Remás progress
I’ve decided I should show more process on this blog, and so it shall begin. I’ve been working on the phone aspect of the Remás system proposed last semester. While I had initially considered focusing on a text message based service due to the prevalence of dumbphones available today. I ended up developing a smartphone...continue reading
The Super Graphic!
I’ve been working on a supergraphic, as Tufte would call it. It is a diagram of many, but not near all, the different ways you could send money from America to Mexico. It’s still a work in progress, but it definitely paints a picture at this point.continue reading
Remás
Of the six projects which were proposed to us, Remás is the one I’ve been assigned. It focuses on the remittances sent home by the migrant workers here in America. The coordinator wants us to find a better(cheaper, easier, faster, etc.) method for these transactions. That one sentence description is a bit limiting because he...continue reading
