I met with Hans-Christoph Steiner last Tuesday to explore software solutions that might power the StoryWalks mobile app. Hans is teaching this semester’s Programmatic Audio course and has expertise in Pure Data (PD), a programming environment for audio and video processing. Pure Data is a … Read More →
Category Archives: Design
StoryWalks at Eldridge Street ~ User Testing
This semester, in collaboration with Anna Pinkas and Amy Stein Milford, Deputy Director of the Museum at Eldridge Street, I’ve been designing a site-specific audio experience and interactive mobile application that will infuse the Eldridge Street Synagogue with the voices of past congregants, revealing its … Read More →
Found Letters ~ Antique hack, phase two
This week I experimented with projecting animated handwritten text onto a number of surfaces. I started with glass — a clear glass tumbler, a green glass lamp, a bottle of perfume — to see how the glass caught the image and diffused the light. I … Read More →
Found Letters meets Video Sculpture ~ Antique Hack, phase one
In Video Sculpture we were asked to use video projection to bring an antique to life. I choose to experiment with this letter box in order to test a variety of ways these materials might be animated by media. What follows is my one-page write-up … Read More →
Writing the Novel ~ Found Letters’ Kansas Research Trip
Some students spend spring break in exotic climes. I booked a flight to Kansas and spent four days driving through the state, researching Found Letters. My mom joined me as driver, research assistant, and plot consultant. Together, we perused historic documents, discovered narrative possibilities, and … Read More →
Discover Great Buildings ~ Wireframes
My wireframes for the proposed new Great Buildings homepage and content page are inspired by the Bing search landing page and Flickr’s photo pages. On the homepage, I imagine users arriving to find a refreshed image of a building pulled from the Great Buildings collection. … Read More →
Discover Great Buildings ~ Redesigning www.greatbuildings.com
How do you transform a 1990s-era website into a photo-rich, community-supported, content-rich discovery portal? Break it down to its component parts and rebuild to showcase crowdsourced images accessible through simple, persistent navigation. This week: Site analysis, concept sketch, and flow diagram. Next week: Wireframes.
Disruptive Thinking ~ Recollecting the Muse: The Literary Reading, Redesigned (A Manifesto)
In spite of innovation in performance, publishing and technology, literary readings are presented much the same as they were when, in 1922, James Joyce read from his freshly-printed copy of Ulysses at a podium in Paris’s packed Shakespeare & Co. bookstore. The reading is a … Read More →
Key to Kindle: A Short History of E Ink
This according to a report PricewaterhouseCoopers released in 2000, the same year Stephen King published Riding the Bullet, a 66-page digital novella which sold 400,000 copies in the first 24 hours. The potential for ebooks’ to compete against traditional books for consumer dollars seemed great, … Read More →
Designing the digital archive of tomorrow ~ Introducing the ITP Thesis Archive
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The Fountain of Memory ~ Re-Visioning the Fontaine Saint-Michel
Built between 1858 and 1860, the Fontaine Saint-Michel presides over the entrance to Paris’s Latin Quarter. Known both as meeting place and wishing well, crowds gather at the fountain in all weather. One might see someone turn their back and toss a coin over their … Read More →
Found Letters ~ Video Sculpture Final
Found Letters is a transmedia verse novel that translates history into fiction, immersing readers in the objects, documents, and letters a genealogist uses to reconstruct her family story. This proof-of-concept prototype reveals one of the seven media channels through which this story is told: a … Read More →