Subject line up looks like this:

Communicating Practice: which is a mass lot of readings and then folio building. The readings are interesting, however each week we have to write up and present on them with another person, which is a little bit of a pain in the bum. The folio aspect – when we get there, should be great.

Systems and Services: not quite sure assignment-wise yet, however there fascinating lecture on alternate aspects of design and the power in ‘designing behaviour’ etc. Have a feeling the lectures will interesting but the assignment could come with dark clouds. (Group work alert! Although I’m seasoned with having experienced the worst now)

Advertising Design: reminiscent of several former classes. If I get a good idea I’ll be laughing, if I don’t it’ll be perpetual pain. My assignment is on homelessness (my choice of topic) – lets hope I haven’t bitten off more than I can chew.

Information and Interface Design: Kind of up my alley – I think. It’s about applying some handy old logic and spatial grandeur and presenting information in a simpler, visual way. It does require thinking in 8 dimensions but I think I’m up for the challenge, does have the potential to be very tricky but also very fun.

And thus concludes a somewhat pessimistic view of my subjects this semester. The outlook presents some interesting stuff, hopefully I can do it justice and pull out some ripper work to conclude (finally!) my time in the tertiary box.

Design Uni

Originally published in 1964, the First Things First Manifesto is something to be quite proud of as a to-be designer out there.

Adbuster republished/rewrote the manifesto and you can read it here.

Culture Design

We have a pretty awful and small back yard. There is this patch of grass – well weeds, to one side complete with carcass of dead bird. We periodically rip out the weeds in this section to pass rental inspections and it becomes dirt again. It’s a rental, I’m not interested in gardening.

Today it was sunny and I was inspired being my last day before I have to go back to uni, so I put a picnic rug down, grabbed a pillow and another blanket and lay outside and read Cest La Folie – a book about a guy who moves to France to reclaim life, challenge himself with starting out somewhere he knows no one and keep some chickens. The awful, small backyard was pretty lovely.

Perhaps I will move to France, reclaim some life, challenge myself, start somewhere I know hardly anyone and keep some chickens… but then it’s not half bad here at times.

Life

carrotWell the Problogger tried it and it intrigued me. It’s a Delicious Magazine recipe which means it’ll appear on taste.com.au soon enough. It’s tasty but really too sweet to eat a big bowl, small amount before proper dinner (but who does that when you’re just cooking something easy for tea!) would be okay.

So the verdict: nice but not mind blowing and you can’t eat a large quantity of it. It’s not particularly mapley, more just sweet.

Cooking