Design = Life

In the words of Jonathan Larson, “I expect games and photos from Xerox now”

Finally I have Visual Headlines (VH) polished up enough to post it here. Summary: Basically what VH does is take a headline from CNN, separate that headline into an array of relevant words (words like ‘of’ and ‘the’ are excluded) and searches Flickr images for those tags using Flashr (an AS2 wrapper for the Flickr [...]

Right now for Virtual Entertainment I am working on an experimental project that uses the We Feel Fine API and Adobe’s Kuler API. By taking some of the emotions expressed in the most recent blog posts and then visualizing those emotions using color palettes tagged similarly from the Kuler data the user is able to [...]

For Dynamic Persuasion we have to do a project that uses image uploads in flash. I decided that I wanted to do a quilt. When I was 17 my Grandma gave me a quilt of all these old scraps of fabric from different things in her life. It is really one of the gifts that [...]

I have a rough version of message forms up right now to use. There is still some more functionality to add. Here’s the link.

For our first QTVR project we have to create 3 photographs. My concept was abandoned toys and here are the photos.

The assignment for project 1 is to create an interactive experience using user-generated content. After ditching a few ideas here’s what I came up with…thank you to Alan Fletcher’s book The Art of Looking Sideways for saving the day on this one. My Inspiration: “When a word changes shape (by superimposing letters) it can change [...]