In a few weeks, “A Better World by Design” conference will be held for the 2011 year. This year I, and some close colleagues at GoodGood Design, have been invited to team-facilitate two workshops at the event. Our mutual designer buddies [...]
I was interviewed recently for a magazine feature about a course I designed and teach called “Introduction to iPad and iPhone Development”. A writer came to my class one evening and spoke with some of my students about the course, and the apps they had been working on as part of their capstone [...]
I had the pleasure to attend the 2011 Design Senior Exhibition at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. There I found great work and a great turnout. Highlights for me include some extremely nice branding and poster based graphic design work from Stephanie Young, and two iPad apps developed by
This assignment has students create a real-life object intended for human interaction. They have one week to complete a prototype and presentation. The goal of this assignment is to have students break from using their laptops and Adobe software suite, and exercise their resourcefulness muscle.
Students created a variety of items from disposable trash cans, [...]
Yesterday, we brought our Freshman Seminar students to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Students are working on the second module of the course where they discover and learn the process of conceptualization. Their assignment entails taking a current event article and creating a collage, based on interpretation.
The key to this assignment [...]
Here are some snapshots of students in my iPhone and Freshman Seminar courses at Bunker Hill Community College. Creative brainstorming, mind mapping and conceptualization; hammering out ideas!
Februrary 7th, 2011 – Marc O’Brien of Project M talks with the students of the Introduction to Web Design course about mobilizing your ideas. Ben and I were thrilled Mark could make it! After this talk, a group workshop commenced and we had some wild results. – http://www.marcobrien.net
“Project M is an [...]
On January 20th, 2011, Dr. Todd Rose came to Lesley University to talk on how the field of Neuroscience is critical to our work as faculty. The main focal point of the discussion surrounding Visual Literacy, and how we as humans perceive our environments. From classroom environments to Pedagogy (or Andragogy if you, as I, [...]
Pretty regularly, I lead a workshop for incoming design students at AIB called “Designers make things that make things happen”. This workshop gives the incoming students an introduction to the concepts of design thinking and rapid prototyping. In this workshop I facilitated an ice-breaker exercise and lead the students through a design-thinking exercise called “Thinking [...]
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