ITP has a tradition, which goes back I don’t know how far, that early on in the Intro to Physical Computing class each student builds his first production assignment, called the Stupid Pet Trick. I guess the name comes from David Letterman; probably it’s calculated to ramp down the intimidation factor associated with building something [...]
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Comm Lab 2D – Week 2 – Bad Signs
I was surprised to find that it was easy to find moderately bad signs, but difficult to find really terrible examples of the type Katherine had shown us in class. Most of mine were less examples of bad signage than bad branding. But then I hit the jackpot: I have a car, and it is [...]
Interactive Ball Pit
I don’t recall getting to play in a ball pit until I was seventeen years old. In high school I played a lot of jazz piano, and our band was pretty good. Our high school program had gotten kind of famous in the region (at least among the extremely small subset of Midwesterners who like [...]