December 2009
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I’m currently home with family until next week. Merry Christmas, all!
Dec 30th
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The Lebbeus Woods Architecture School series, if you’re interested: Architecture School 101 Architecture School 102 Architecture School 201 Architecture School 202 Architecture School 301 Architecture School 302 Architecture School 401 Architecture School 401 Buffalo Analog Architecture School 401 LA Analog
Dec 23rd
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Leubbus Woods: Architecture School 301
I am five posts into Lebbeus Woods’ commentary series about the education of architects. This is what he has to say about design studios: “The current design studio system in schools encourages students to work independently and to come up with their own ideas. These are then put up in reviews next to one another and judged in isolation. It is the perfect model of ‘free-market’...
Dec 23rd
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BLDG BLOG Book
I gave in and picked up the Bldg Blog book during my Christmas buying spree. Like the blog, it leapfrogs from one interesting idea to another. It certainly made for a heady experience, but one that wasn’t always pleasurable. I might have had an easier time of it if I had read the book as Manaugh advised: skimming, reading things out of order and moving on if I found something...
Dec 22nd
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Alex Cornell's Playboy redesign →
San Francisco based designer Alex Cornell has completed his rebranding of Playboy magazine for a graduate graphic design class. Summarized, Cornell’s aim was to return the Playboy brand to it’s original vibe, a classier alternative to Hustler or Maxim. His solution is extreme; he throws out the iconic Playboy bunny: Cornell writes about the logo design process here. The real treat,...
Dec 21st
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Dec 13th
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My barber’s chair is amazing. It’s never warm from the heat of the previous occupant, so you get to experience the joy of massaging it to your own body temperature. Then come the clippers to knead your skull and hum you to sleep. Then, the blade. There is probably a word in some language to describe the moment when your barber shapes your hairline. He takes a sliver of metal, places...
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
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A contract of constraints
bobulate: I began piano lessons at age five. Classical only. Scales. Practicing every evening before dinner was a requirement. In the early ’80s, weakened by requests, my parents purchased a synthesizer for me. It was an imperative purchase, I felt at the time, for me to continue my creative pursuits as a young musician. See also: The New England Synthesizer Museum Yet with four more sounds to...
Dec 7th
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e-i-b: quartey: Tumblr needs a button for those moments that don’t quite warrant a like or a reblog. Something discrete, that only the person it’s meant for can see. A button that mimics the feel of someone reaching under the table and giving your hand a small squeeze. I agree!! the can call it the “I hear ya” button Word.
Dec 7th
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Tumblr needs a button for those moments that don’t quite warrant a like or a reblog. Something discrete, that only the person it’s meant for can see. A button that mimics the feel of someone reaching under the table and giving your hand a small squeeze.
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Lamp shade process
For the final design project for Intro to Arch, we were to design a lamp shade for a wall-mounted light fixture. The shade was to be made of one kind of white paper and one kind of white glue. It was to be self-supporting (no wooden or wire frame) and the shade was to be designed using the proportional system of the Golden Mean. My initial idea was to do something with a flower. The bulb would be...
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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whydoihaveablog: I wish, instead of selling the Mormonism, bevested (that’s a word), fresh-faced, young Mormon men would knock on your door, look you in the eye and earnestly tell you, “You’re doing a really good job. Keep it up.” Instead of handing you pamphlets that contain scriptures, they hand you gold star stickers. I just wish we had that sort of encouragement. And then, of course, they’d...
Dec 6th
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faucet: oh mans 3 hours to online submission deadline.  it’s a race to the finish! GO GO GO GO!
Dec 6th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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To everyone else out there with crippling phone...
eequalsmckenna: shoesonwrong: Please don’t call me. I am with you. I will not cannot speak on the phone with you, but you can text me. No, please. Text me. Reblogged for truth.
Dec 2nd