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Barcelonaaaaaaaaa

was so nii­i­i­ice. I want to go back to the beach. Iwant to eat a crème brûlée sand­which for break­fast again. I want to live in Sagrada Familia. And the trees, Barcelona has the coolest trees ever. And it’s SO WARM. Sagrada Familia: Park Guell: Around town: (This is the Span­ish ver­sion of Fre­itag bags it seems. Dif­fer­ent kinds […]

Wuppertal’s end of semester show

…was pretty impres­sive. I’m used to going to our senior shows and really being wowed by a hand­ful of the seniors but here it seemed to be the other way around. All of the projects were pre­sentable and the major­ity of them weren’t just pretty good they were REALLY good. Maybe I’m just not used to […]

DAAP Eurotrip Review 3: Milan & Turin, Italy

This place is beau­ti­ful.  The build­ings, the cars (the scoot­ers), and the peo­ple. Our first design stop was the Domus Acad­emy, a very small pri­vate insti­tu­tion that teaches solely design. I got the feel­ing a lot of think­ing goes on inside their build­ing, more think­ing than draw­ing for sure. They have design degrees I’ve never heard of being […]

Spacefish

…is in space

DAAP Eurotrip Review 2: Frankfurt, Germany

Yay, we’re back to the right side of the road! But now every­one speaks Ger­man, fair trade-​​​​off? Prob­a­bly, since a lot of Ger­mans speak decent Eng­lish. Frank­furt wins the prize for most inter­est­ing hotel loca­tion, right in the mid­dle of the red light dis­trict. Now while we stayed in Frank­furt our actual design-​​​​related stop was a little […]

DAAP Eurotrip Review 1: London, UK

Eng­land was the eas­i­est to get accli­mated to of all the coun­tries we vis­ited, with the excep­tion of nearly get­ting hit by cars on mul­ti­ple occa­sions due that whole driving-​​​​on-​​​​the-​​​​left idea. And maybe this is more in the coun­try side but really, no one really seemed to have bad teeth (Except the guy we saw […]

Germany 1

I’m here, and I have no idea what any­one is say­ing unless they say yes/​​no hello/​​goodbye or thank you/you’re wel­come. Things that I’ve encoun­tered so far are grape­fruit scented cleaner, a com­plete lack of open wifi to “bor­row,” con­fus­ing out­lets that are meant only to pre­vent injury to chil­dren, döner(!) and a com­plete lack of what I was lead […]

Clint Eastwood

Just watched Fist­ful of Dol­lars and decided I might as well prac­tice faces and phở­to­shop paint­ing simul­ta­né­ously. So here’s a sim­ple black and white of Clint from The Good the Bad and the Ugly. process: #1. So many prob­lems with this one I threw it out and restarted but it was good just to get some­thing up and see […]

1HDC, gestural interfaces

Here’s my entry into the Core77 1HDC: ges­tural inter­faces.  The idea is to have remotes that respond to hand move­ments in order to con­trol heavy machin­ery from afar, one oper­a­tor could con­duct the actions of mul­ti­ple machines to have them work in tan­dem with­out any risk of dan­ger.  Yes, I kind of just wanted to draw […]

a measly sketchstack #5

once again, it’s been a while and this time I’ve only got two lit­tle pages worth show­ing.  Alex’s robot thread and my nephew com­bined to inspire this idea for an alpha­bet book called “Alphabots.”  Each robot is a let­ter and is act­ing out an adjec­tive that starts with their let­ter and that they’re designed to carry out. Any […]