The Face Your Pockets project has people empty the contents of their pockets onto a scanner and create an image by scanning them along with their face. It’s really neat, I think I’ll post my pictures once I get back to the US. I found someone who carries more pens than I do!
Via designboom.
Ingenious golden prize winner for the second MUJI Awards. Didn’t think the other winners were all that good though.
My last two posts were “quickies”. What’s a quicky? Well, jealous of the simplicity of my friend Adam’s tumblr, I found a plugin for Wordpress called “quickpost” that lets me do quick tumblr-style posts. But I wanted quickies to be small, quick posts that don’t attract too much attention, so I did a little bit of Wordpress magic so that quickies show up differently. Now they attract more attention than regular posts, but I’m pleased with the way they look. And, I’m tired.
So here’s to quickies. Take that tumblr! Wordpress is more flexible!
But Movable Type is looking good for some reason…
Recreating Movement is a program that takes video footage, analyzes it, and produces a "3D" images using several frames arragned in space. The outcome is nifty.
No Ideas But In Things is a "source of inspiration for interaction designers" that consists of pictures, animations, and diagrams of poorly designed interfaces. "Curated" by interaction designer Dan Saffer. I like that picture best.
My blog might go down this week. Seems like the files got messed up, duplicated, or something. Won’t act like I want it to.
Hang in there guys! Yes, all 4 of you. I’ll be back and posting soon!
I finally got round to updating my Coroflot profile with some work. It’s not much, but it’s something. I’ll be putting more up there in the weeks to come.
Go on! Check it out at coroflot.com/nourmalaeb. You know you wanna!
So close! I’m in the airport in Amman, Jordan, waiting to get on the plane. Apparently, even though the gate is open, we can’t go through yet. Makes no sense, I know.
In keeping with the picture at each airport thing, here’s me in Amman, being bored. More colourful than the others, isn’t it?
What’s wrong with that picture? (Besides it being a pretty bad one - I took it with my phone’s camera in low light, and it was so bad in colour that I had to make it black and white to look halfway decent)
That’s the faceplate on an elevator I got into at the JFK airport in New York. It took me a good 10 or 15 seconds to figure out exactly which button to push. Why do the numbers on the left not match the numbers on the right?? Why are there even two sets of numbers in the first place?????
Finals are over. A pretty tiring experience. I got everything done though.
I won’t be going back to SCAD until next fall. I recently interviewed for an internship position at Husqvarna, an outdoor products maker. I got offered the position, and accepted, and will be starting in January. I’m excited; I’m going to be sketching up tons of concepts, researching human factors and ergonomics issues, presenting ideas to marketing, collaborating with experienced designers, and just learning A LOT in general. Can’t wait! I’m going to miss SCAD though. I’ve spent more time at the industrial design building in the past year than I have anywhere else.
Because I’m not coming back to SCAD next quarter, I had to move all my stuff out of my room. Normally, at the end of the school year students are given until 5 pm the day after last day of classes to get moved out. But for winter quarter, they only gave me until noon the day after classes. I was packing for 7 hours and still didn’t get everything out on time. My RA was really cool about it though, and I ended up getting more time. I left at a reasonable 3 pm. It was still really tiring.
I had to pack again for my trip back home to Lebanon. That was easier though. Hardest thing was making sure that anything fragile was sufficiently padded with clothes to prevent damage. I’m getting better at this packing thing! Still not my favourite thing to do though.
Now I’m at the airport in Atlanta, waiting at the gate for my flight to JFK airport in New York City. I managed to avoid wireless internet fees by using my phone as a bluetooth modem (I have an unlimited data plan from AT&T). Setting it up was confusing, but it worked! Gotta love my brother’s new MacBook. The connection is kinda slow. I wonder why my HSDPA enabled handset isn’t getting blazing fast 3G speeds. Ah well, at least I’m online.
Here’s me being exhausted from one of the most stressful weeks of my life, waiting a the gate so I can fall asleep reading Don Norman’s “Design of Everyday Things” on the flight to NYC. Taken, of course, with the built-in iSight on my brother’s MacBook. Hi y’all!