“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

Every door, opening or closing on a chapter in your life offers more doors to discover. I’m not the kid who grew up knowing I wanted to be a graphic designer. Or, even a designer for that matter. My creative journey has been a bit winding, and at times I’ve felt self-conscious for all the

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Future Cases for AR

Last Friday’s class made me realize how close some of the things we view as futuristic technology are with the advancements being made to Augmented Reality. In researching a bit deeper into all that will be possible in the near future with AR glasses, I start to wonder about other ways AR will be helpful

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Pitch Bible

I can’t believe I didn’t know what a pitch bible was before last week! AJ Hanneld’s talk on Friday was inspiring for a number of reasons– she really spoke to my soul and somehow managed to say all the things I didn’t even realize I needed to hear. While her words meant so much, her

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Winter Blog #4 – Collaboration Styles

Hearing Joe speak today on the array of scenarios that can occur when working as apart of a larger team, it reminded me of my days working in theatre production on a design team. Working on any given show is a director, the design team, management, administration, producers, crew, etc. etc. Not to mention actors!

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Storytelling with Augmented Reality

Paolo Tosolini’s work with emerging technologies and particularly with AR is something I never really considered as being a big interest to me personally, but after seeing all the possibilities for storytelling through these new technologies it’s really changed my perspective and opened my eyes to all the things made possible when you use the

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Marketing a Board Game

Jessica Aceti’s guest lecture last week showed how diverse the world of board games can be. There really is a game out there for every audience and that appeals to every interest. One of the campaigns she spoke about that really peaked my interest was for the “Godzilla: Tokyo Clash!” board game that came out

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UX Voting System Redesign: Elevator Pitch

The current voting system in the US is in need of a redesign, and who better to take on the job than a talented UX designer with a team of empathetic, creative problem-solvers with a passion for accessible design. I believe I meet that description to a T, and as someone with a lot of

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What Gives Me Hope

I had a couple of vague ideas when I first saw the prompt for this week, but nothing that I felt would visually translate very well. Then, I caught my dog and cat in the middle of a carefree afternoon snuggle session and immediately knew the two little beings that give me more hope than

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Week 8 Post!

The passion and narrative that JoAnne Ardinger and Rosalie Miller brought to the story they tell in their documentary “Personhood” resonated with me in a lot of ways. As a female-identifying individual living in this current society in which women have to fight for autonomy over their own bodies, I found their work to be

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This hopefully looks like a capital “R”

I tried a couple of things but this is the option that I felt worked the best to represent an “R.” 🙂