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
These two audio/slideshow recordings are from a critique session on 3/24/2011. Students are just beyond the midpoint in their capstone projects, and have diagrammed some user-flow and design mockups. The comments and critiques were quite interesting, and I believe, helpful.
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!
Last week, I worked with a group of students from my graduate program at UMass Boston to give an instructor lead and designed presentation for a final project. Our project was on the “Think Wrong” exercise. This exercise, brought to my attention by the great folks at ProjectM, is an exercise in design, [...]
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 [...]
This summer, I am teaching Introduction to Digital Imaging at Bunker Hill Community College. Its an introductory Photoshop class.
These photos are from day 2 of the class. This exercise was about seeing the results of JPEG compression. The students had to save 4 versions of a high res photo at different compression rates, then [...]
I am slated to teach two classes this summer. The first is at the Art Institute of Boston @ Lesley University, and the other is at Bunker Hill Community College.
At the Art Institute of Boston, I am teaching again in the Pre-College program for high school students. The class [...]
I wrote the following text as a response to Nathan Felde, the design department chair at the Art Institute of Boston @ Lesley University. I was asked to write a description about a specific stratagey/assignment that I use in my educating process.
This is a working document, as is all design and research…
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