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mfa

A collection of 93 issues

No design is good design.

Last semester, I taught a course on visualizing information at MICA. I used Tufte's first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative information. I love Tufte. I love his simple, Swiss modern approach to design. His strict belief in form following function. His unwavering defense of content and firm

She said form. He said function.

2011 Fiat 500. Photo via blog.al.com I drive a Toyota RAV4, which is not something I’m very proud of in a design sense. But Will made me do it. It’s functional, but boring. Toyota isn’t exactly know for cutting edge design. For 12 years of

Exquisite Corpse.

So, for my experimental film class, we were split into groups of three to create an exquisite corpse. My group (me, Michelle, and Naasir) was given the right torso and hand. We were told to create five 15-second films with three-second breaks between them that together played cohesively as a

Filming, Take One.

, originally uploaded by Valerie Renee. So, I did a lot of experimenting last night for my video. I’m trying to figure out what lighting and angle I’m going to use to film my feet (this photo to the left isn’t mine, but it’s an example of

Hmmm, I think I have my thesis idea...

Working on something related to this. I just started working on this project as a research assistant; I think it could be a really good thing.

Design is effing hard.

, originally uploaded by sara.bell. You know, design is hard. And the frustrating thing is, that unlike medicine or law – which most people admit is hard, whether or not they’ve ever actually done it themselves – most people don’t even really know what designers do, let alone how difficult

I think I want to be an architect instead....

I’m taking an urban design class this quarter and I really like it. So much so, that I’m toying with the idea of applying to the UW’s M. Arch. program when I’m done with my MFA. Then I can do things like this. I’m also

April 14th.

Happy Birthday to me! This photo sums up my life; sitting on the couch with the Weims, writing my thesis. Will took me out for a really nice birthday dinner after he took this. Then I went karaoking with my friends and drank far more than I know better to.

I want new letters.

The fact that graduate design programs bestow upon their students the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree is antiquated and irrelevant. Instead, the design discipline should have its own standardized classification of academic distinction, as programs at IIT, Cincinnati, and Carnegie Mellon do: a Master's of Design. And

Nasty Golden Retrievers and the MFA.

I love that I get home before Will sometimes now that I no longer spend three hours a day on the goddamn train. It means I get first look at notes left by our dogwalker, Matt. Thanks, Guys! We ran into a nasty golden retriever I’m not fond of