Month: October 2022

Guest Speaker: Jessica Aceti

If theres anything to be understand about asthma and how it effects the respiratory system, your day is decided by a graph, and your decisions decide where you fall on said graph on that day.

x-axis: fuck around

y-axis: find out

simple enough to understand right?

I’ve had exercise induced asthma for as long as i remember, you know you’re and og asthma victim when u have one of those baby adapters for your albuterol– so imagine my surprise when my middle school best friends with full knowledge of this said, lets all sign up for track and field, and run the relay together! I would also like you to keep in mind i was infamous for passing out running the half miles in PE classes

but they said it with such enthusiasm I had to say yes.

weeks go by and we stay late after school, running to build stamina and practicing passing to baton so we don’t fumble when it really matters. We each agreed to do only one event and I dont speak sports, so even though I participated in it i cant remember the exact distance, but whatever it is, there were 4 of us and we each had to run a full lap around the track in the relay.

fast forward, its game day

we all suit up in our ugly lil bright yellow uniforms that probably havent seen soap in at least a decade and proceed to sit on the school field thats always a little bit suspiciously soggy.

hours go by, but its finally our event. and for whatever reason I’m the first runner.

1/4 track? i simply am speed

1/2 way point on track. slowing down, but manageable from training

3/4 big yikes for my lungs

in the last quarter of the track i dont remember anything other than handing the baton and then a head rush and blacking out.

when I woke up again my friends were around me and in their sweaty, middle school grip, was a second place ribbon. we were elated! None of us were particularly athletic so this was a big surpise. Podium!! The main moral was that we tried. it was something we put in work to achieve and we were able to see the results of our efforts! Its only through trying that we all figured out to never sign up for track and field again.

And my favorite part about telling this story is that its completely optional to say that there was only one other team we were running against.

Guest speakers : Joe Hallock, Ethel Xu, Rui Wu

Thus far my knowledge on these topics or the work they’d entail is limited so my thoughts on this specific topic may be a touch lacking.

When it comes to design, I’ve only heard from people who fall somewhere on the left side x axis of the board. 

My friend’s dad makes airport signs for SeaTac, and I have a family friend who has done their time in Microsoft and now has a pretty high spot in adobe— 

I’ve given a little thought, but not much that can truly guide me quite yet.

I’ve always enjoyed food related content as well as consuming fashion content, to me it’s where there is more creativity, and it deeply interacts with niches of people which is something I find rather interesting. However, I’ve never had any passion or confidence on entering those fields, so I’ve imagined myself ending up in one of the larger companies like Microsoft or Google upon graduation. They speak to broad groups of people and varying informational specificity depending on the product. And for that purpose I’ve been looking at the left side of the graph (places like these serve as open doors for honing professional abilities and fundamental skills before finding possible niches).

In Gabriel’s class we’ve begun the discussion of thinking about ethical design and the question of how we do that when we fall into lines of work that perpetuate capitalism.

As a designer I would like to learn how to do the least amount of harm. 

So places like Amazon that are aggressive in marketing and profit tracking because all they do is sell and sell and sell don’t interest me as much. Ideally I would like to contribute to services that help people, but realistically I would like somewhere that can provide stability.  All in all I have no really specific passion that I’ve figured out a way to funnel into a design byproduct or project, I’m not like neuroscientists who know what they’ve wanted to do that since they were two.
At this moment I’m just absorbing information as it comes and piecing things together

Guest speaker : Paolo Tossolini

First blog post!

How terrible exciting.

Hello! My name is Olivia Chasse (she/her), lovely to make your acquaintance.

I’m a typical high-school-graduate-during-pandemic story.

It sucked every ounce of motivation for learning out of my soul and then some. So while this program has given me a whole new sense and experience of anxiety, workload, bad posture, and has doubled my caffeine intake— at the same time, there’s a type of fulfillment in the content I am learning and I’m excited for the new challenges it proposes.

During Paolo’s presentation he brought up a specific 3D scanning program that he applied to multiple projects and made fit into all these different circumstances. So in all honestly my composition is a complete amalgamation of miscellaneous things and projects I am already in possession of. I’m learning to value my time and clumsily figuring out how to streamline the creation process, and I asked myself “why on earth would I make something completely from scratch when I already have all the pieces?”