I’ve been taking a Sketching with Code course with Noah Paessel this semester. Most of the course content is pretty basic, since most people in the class haven’t done any coding at all before. But I’ve also found the open-ended assignments to be a great opportunity to stretch in different directions with my code. This is…
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CS7280: Visualization redesign
I have been terrible about posting work up on the blog this semester. I’ve been digging into thesis work, and spending less time on everything else. But there is lots of work to share! So, here’s a quick exercise that I did for my CS class in Data Visualization. The assignment was to find a…
RISDSummerInstitute: Designing logotypes from letterforms
This post is part of a series of posts about work that I did at the RISD Summer Institute for Graphic design in June/July of 2016. The class was Introduction to Typography, taught by Ernesto Aparicio. This assignment was a classic typography exercise, and a lot of fun. We needed to choose a single letter, and play with…
RISDSummerInstitute: Type specimen poster
This is one of a series of posts about work that I did at the RISD Summer Institute for Graphic design in June/July of 2016. The class was Introduction to Typography, taught by Ernesto Aparicio. This assignment was another classic exercise – choose a typeface, and design an artistic poster to display the typeface to its best advantage. We…
RISDSummerInstitute: Playing with type
I just got back from two weeks at the RISD Summer Institute for Graphic design. I took an Introduction to Typography class with Ernesto Aparicio. The class was very similar to the VisComm course I took with him at Northeastern in the fall, but most of the assignments were new, and we were able to adjust…
IDStudio2: Visualizing Twitter
It seems I never posted about my ID Studio 2 semester project. The guidelines were very broad: we were given the option of several social media sites, and asked to choose a visualization project using data from that site. I chose to work with data from Twitter, because I thought it would be interesting to…
Genealogy of the Written Word
Seven months later, I finally found a day to sit down and brush up the final details for my Genealogy of the Written Word poster that I presented in my Design History class in October. Here’s the version I presented in class: And my first touched-up version: The biggest change was eliminating the gradient and allowing the map…
VizTech2: Final project
My p5.js class with Pedro Cruz has been working on building a visualization of the CrunchBase database, which gives a list of major companies and who has invested in them. We started the class by building the basic program structure together in a working-group format. At the beginning of each class, Pedro would list a series of tasks on…
DesignTheory: Final poster
We’ve been working on drafts of our final poster for my design theory class with Hugh Dubberly over the past few weeks. The assignment is to create a concept map of our own synthesis of some aspect of design, and to present it as poster form in lieu of a term paper. It’s an interesting…
ResearchMethods: Piling on the data
The next step for my research methods poster is to figure out how to add in the richness of the dataset and a sense of context/importance of the topic for global issues. To do this, I really wanted to get into granular data about land use and soil degradation, rather than sticking with the simple…