This week, I continued to work on the previous assignment- bowling animation from WK2 and made 3 changes. 1) The weekly assignment is to clean up draw function by making up new functions, reorganizing functions…
Month: September 2014
Visual Language WK3: Define yourself in TyPoGrApHy
It is been a fun and productive week in Visual class. This week, we are ready to get personal. The assignment is to define yourself in typography. It’s been a overwhelming soul research, as how…
Video&Sound WK3 Final project started
After completing last week’s assignment, we started to work on our final project, a video piece. This is a group project, and we almost started brainstorming right after class. Briefly we discussed the pros and…
WK3 Interactive Technology in Public– “Name Me” at Build-A-Bear
The joy of being a kid nowadays — there is whole billion-dollar industry devoted to making them happy and smile. When I arrived at the flagship on 5th avenue/ 46th street, they told me it…
ICM WK3 Interaction
ICM continues with a steep learning curve. This week, we work on interaction. Up until now, most of my preparation is invested on watching Shiffman’s video. Still, I have to watch some of the video…
Visual Language WK2 Signage Bad vs. Good
Bad example #1: Typo. Recommendation: correct the grammar and don’t drink when you are making a sign. Bad example#2: This is a classic example of lost in translation, something you see a lot when…
WK2 Close A Circuit With Alternative Switch
“Overwhelmed” is the theme of the week. P-Comp is one of the classes you spent hours preparing (on videos and lab exercise), and still go “huh?” a lot in class. This week, my new toy…
ICM Animation
It’s been a groundbreaking week in ICM class– we work beyond static objects, and proceed to make moving objects — animation, that is. Roopa paired me and Michael for the class group project, and we…
The Anatomy of Visual Design
When working on the anatomy of good visual design, A few observations came up — 1) Different types of publications/businesses have different target audience, who might have distinctive definition of “good design”. 2) Placing types…
What is interaction?
Interaction includes varieties of human behaviors. It is a process that people act and react to those around them — exchange of opinion and ideas, competition when there is shared goal but only one can…