September 14, 2011 archive

7 in 7 : 1 Retro art

My constrain somehow change due to the integrity of 7 project. It’s now “Something edible.” 7 in 7 : 1 Retro art Using slice of food to combine picture painted from Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miro. Grocery: strawberry, blue berry, rice, banana, kiwi, cookie, hot dog, egg mushroom, potato chips, and onion. Wassily Kandinsky’s work   …

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7in7 – 2 [Subway]

my 7-in7 project, part 2 7in7-2

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7in7 – 1 [Trader Joe’s]

For my 7-in-7 project, I decided to start recording sounds on the way back home for 7 days, and create a tiny bit of music on top of them, using them as a motif. So the outcome of the project will be 7 short tracks. Guitar, Bass, [sometimes] Drum Samples and vocals are all done …

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Readings Week Two

Until I now I didn’t realize how important it is to do mock ups of your work. My first realization of this was during bootcamp when I had to build a new website. When building my first artist portfolio I kind of just wingged it and went with the flow. It was so much easier …

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Week 2 readings

This week’s readings are about Prototype, I really learned and thought a lot. In interactive product design practice, designers pay more attention on a variety of factors that affect users’ behavior and habits, how to make the user interaction to get a good experience. To this end, design teams often need to build a series …

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Week # 2 Reading

Cardboard Computer —- Mocking-It-Up or Hands-On the Future This reading is so interesting, I do really love it. When I was reading, I also did some research online—-find out some Cardboard computers. I get some information from those cardboard computers, besides the benefits and good reflections; I found this idea is also doing an environmentally friendly …

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My first 7 in 7 project

My first 7 in 7 project is a short music I made last night, ‘I see faces everywhere’.   I see faces everywhere watch it in youtube The constrain is the emotion. In this project, the emotion is loneliness. This song has two sides, the first side is in the human being side. Sometimes we might …

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Presentation: Re-imagined social network

major studio week#1 re-imagined social network

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Week 2: Prototyping

I found the readings to be really useful this week since they all address one of the fundamentals of design: prototyping. “Prototyping” is often a term thrown around by us designers, but sometimes we need to take a step back and really ask ourselves what a prototype is actually doing.  Every project and every designer …

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Prototyping

Prototypes 1. “What Do Prototypes Protoype?” Stephen Houde and Charles Hill Houde and Hill defined the  triangle diagram of prototyping in sections of: Role, Look and Feel, and Implementation, that are later connected by integration. These sections seem to be rudimentary for any prototype, the text seems to be quite dated actually, since it was …

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