I had a long talk with my sister Liz today about which methods I should use to gather data for my capstone. She graduated the summer before last from Seattle University with a sociology major and women’s studies minor. One really cool opportunity she had through honors there was to conduct a yearlong research project, [...]
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I entered my capstone work—well, the work I have thus far—into the UW’s yearly undergraduate research symposium. I think it would be really fun to present the research. Luckily I’m one of those kooky people that enjoys public speaking. I wrote a couple different abstracts and settled on this one. I hope I get chosen! Every [...] Design is a difficult term to define, especially today. Now, more than any point in design history, the boundaries between the various design disciplines are getting ever more fuzzy and artificial. With the advent of the personal computer and the widespread availability of tools like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, anyone with a little technical [...] I had a great meeting with Dominic Muren, our untiring guide to all things Design Studies, to further refine the direction I’m taking with my capstone and constrain it in a way that it’s actually manageable. After looking at what I’ve done so far, and addressing the trepidation I’ve felt in actually nailing down a [...] I know I’ve been going on and on about the importance of the handmade in design, but I realized today that I haven’t articulated when and where handmade is appropriate. I believe I have implied that it is always appropriate, but is it? I believe that it is always important. To answer this question, however, [...] As I posted earlier, in our design studies capstone class we’ve been thinking about analogies to our chosen topics to gain insight into areas of our topic that maybe wouldn’t occur otherwise. I was having a hard time this past week thinking of an analogy that truly got at how I feel about handmade design, [...] (hint, the answer is c) We’ve been talking a lot about analogies in class lately, and how it can be helpful to think of analogies to a new problem space you are exploring in design studies. I’m really excited about how it’s already started broadening my thinking. Almost without consciously thinking about it, I’ve been coming [...] I’m contemplating a change to my capstone subject—or maybe an entirely new direction. I had been having doubts for about the past week and ended up coming to the conclusion that if I continued on with Hebrew typography, that perhaps the only project I would come up with would be to design a new Hebrew [...] Even though the point of this blog, for the most part, is for me to reflect on my design studies capstone project, I thought it might be nice to institute some sort of weekly summary of what has been going on in the process. Maybe I’ll even start doing fireside webcasts, you never know! This week [...] I find mentoring to be extremely valuable when I am working on large projects (a capstone perhaps?), so I was completely on board earlier this quarter when Dominic—our fearless Design Studies professor—encouraged us to seek out various mentors to work with over the next two quarters. These mentors could be experts in a field related [...] |
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