Published September 9, 2009 by

Soul Train

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Ministry

Published September 4, 2009 by

Instamatic

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Like Amelie! And only $2 from the op-shop. Happy!

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Published September 2, 2009 by

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I had an interesting experience yesterday. In my advertising class we do regular weekly pin-ups which means all your progress work goes up on the wall and you talk about where you’re at. So it’s week 4, most people have picked their ‘social issue’ that they will be advertising, a couple are still tossing up between several. I’ve chosen to do homelessness. Anyhoo, we get into class, put stuff up and to my confusion/horror/indignation one of the ideas that I presented last week is on the wall. AND IT’S NOT MY PIECE OF PAPER. Ironically it’s pinned exactly next to mine which is the idea + an expansion of the same. As the guy starts presenting I confront him with an, ‘Ahem, do you realise I  presented this same idea last week?!’. Apparently he hadn’t realised and ‘mustn’t have paid attention last week’. Perhaps it was subconscious? Anyway. Needless to say he’ll be leaving it well alone.

It was quite an odd feeling being ripped off right to your face.

Pay better attention in class kids.

Design Uni

copyright interesting things happen at university that idea was mine where by I get ripped off

Published September 2, 2009 by

To lighten your day

Curiosity was far greater than our fear
It felt so simple, so prodigious at the same time

Incredible things are happening in the world
Magical things are happening in this world

Across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments
While we really keep on living like monkeys

Incredible things are happening in the world
Magical things are happening in this world, yeah

-Peng! 33 (Iron & Wine)

Music Words

Published September 1, 2009 by

Information Design for Advocacy

visualizing-information-design1While sitting in class I was imagining the possibilities of information design in regards to voicing stuff I care about when they suddenly sprung us with this link.

Information Visualization for Advocacy – John Emerson (Title will download the pdf approx 7mb)

I do value Swinburne for hammering on about stuff that matters, even if this particular example was more a general resource to kick us in to action with our assignments. I intend someday to have a crack at a piece, so if someone wants to throw some data or an idea at me, it would be welcome.

This was not just written for designers the lovely Ellen Lupton (I’m sure she’s lovely – not that I’ve met her, but she’s a twin like me so of course she’s lovely) goes on about making design accessible to all. You go right ahead.

Sometimes I wish I’d discovered information design sooner. On a side note, my assignment piece is on John Friedrich and I will potentially be mapping relationships between him and Iago from Othello (Shakespeare). Should be interesting.

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