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
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
Visualize!
This past weekend we had another session with Jonny Goldstein. It was great, perfect timing and all. Nick and I have collected a ton of information about our thesis topic but we haven’t had time to really put it all out and see it together to see all the connections. This weekend we got to...continue reading
Bike Car
Nick and I met for thesis today and decided to quit talking and do something. Well, we talked a little, then we definitely took action. We discussed what the next steps should be in terms of the direction of our project. We considered doing more interviews, scheduling more interviews, working on homework that is directly...continue reading
The Bike Situation
In an effort to better understand the bike situation here in Philly, Nick and I did some paper research into the laws, plans, and articles that have surrounded it over the past couple of years. The gist is that currently the city in year 1 or 2 of a 10 year plan to boost the...continue reading
Super-Post
I’ve been so busy I haven’t been able to post updates so this post is a super-post providing updates on multiple topics. Thesis We brought in our summer homework and the analysis and critique showed that there was nothing particularly wrong with the machinations of Filter. The business model, though new to us and interesting,...continue reading
Coming Along
Our thesis homework has come along. We’ve backed off on the research and are now focusing hard on the synthesis. We’ve walked through Exposing the Magic of Design and following the process outlined as best we can in it. (thus my update at the bottom of that post) Today we finished a rough concept map....continue reading
