Day 1
First day of Design Fundamentals class today, met a lot of cool people.
Great to see how diverse everyone’s backgrounds are and to finally put faces with names/email addresses.
A few of us met up this evening at Doc’s for beer and lively discussion – hopefully the first of many such outings. I’m excited about the program based mainly on who I’ll get to be around.
Got to organize some tools today as well, a good exercise in what designers actually do:
- Make Decisions
- Categorize
- Organize
I’ve also included my first project at CMU: using type to display song lyrics. Could be better, but I think I got some ideas across in the small amount of time we had to complete the project. Worked on connecting the lyrics to what I was dealing with at the time and exposing what Ben Folds was thinking when throughout the song, since we didn’t have a whole of direction as far as interpreting things. Also some references to starting again as a designer, hoping to get back to where design really comes from and what its power is.