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Filling out the Problem Space: PaperPaperPaper
Since I’m addressing the physical aspects of books, it’s time to talk about paper.
Let us not forget that the familiar musky smell we love, and the gentle tooth of paper comes from trees.
Here are some basic facts that I scoured from the Green Press Initiative in their report The State of the Paper Industry.
42% of the industrial wood harvest is used to make paper
If paper is...
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Representational Media
As an industrial designer I’m probably deluded. I’m under the impression that human beings like to physically interact with objects, tools, and their environments. However, I keep running into digital commentaries that speak otherwise. With the iPad now Officially out, we can conceive of how are media experiences will change. I already stream most of my movies via netflix, and download...
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March 2010
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Aesthetics and the Senses
My understanding of texts began to unravel last week while reading My Mother Was a Computer. I have begun to see the relationship between the text, the work, and perception, which are all shaped by the medium they’re delivered in. The content (the arrangement of letterforms) remains the same, but is not completely consistent as the reader’s understanding is subject to change based on...
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Moving Towards the Senses
Today’s discovery was Sensorium: Embodied experience, technology and contemporary art, by Caroline A. Jones.
Jones deconstructs Modernism’s rule of ocularity through writings of Clement Greenberg, Michel Foucault, and historical observations. Sensory phenomena, Jones notes, have been Instrumentalized.
We are joined to the sensory tools we have made to amplify and accompany the...
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Situationism - A Gallery →
Lots of visual media compiled for a show at the Imaginary Museum - almost a Retrospective on Situationism.. if members would really recognize it as a defined movement (which, of course, they won’t).
For reference’s sake, a beautiful explanation of situationism is found here
Moving through the city I am walking a line that has no end and no purpose. I am after a conversation but I...
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WatchPart of the thesis project is seeing what your peers are up to. In a way, it eases anxiety about your future employment competition, but also brings your understanding beyond the thesis class. When you’ve only got a handful of students studying together, the world shrinks. Quickly.
Michelle Li, a interaction student in Hong Kong, put together this lovely thesis project inspired by the...
Reading on the iPad →
An extensive run down of the future of books in the physical vs. digital sense. What I love is the grounded notion of keeping the physicality of books, but only when they are used as such. Reminds me of e.e. cummings layouts. Craig drives home that the books we’re loosing, the ‘bricks’, those trashy beach novels, and maybe a couple of malcom gladwells. This notion seems pretty...
WatchAnother great video from Interaction 10, by Kendra Schimmell who will soon be joining Adaptive Path.
She touches on a few topics that I’ve adressed in projects over the years. Love how she brings kinesthetic awareness into the world of IXD.
From Davis to David: Lessons from Improvisation →
Interaction Designer, Liz Danzico - who writes over at bobulate, touches on Improv and Design. Her article is great and touches on a lot of the examples I used for my Guerrilla Design class. Currently: Regretting that I didn’t write a paper or create a deliverable based on it. Probably too late.
On Digital Lending →
Josh Greenberg, over at the epistemographer talks about the future of digital lending. Though I’m more interested in the action of the “Lend”, Josh gets to the potential of the use. If a book is owned by a person (or group?), and is lent out, does it only count as “in use” when someone’s eyes are on it? It makes me think of p2p sharing - when you’re...
“The ability to pass a book along to someone, including future...”
– an excerpt from an extensive post by bob stein. More on their blog. Book love by the Institute for the Future of the Book.
Future of the Book →
An organization, generously funded by the MacArthur foundation that explores the future of reading.
They’re new to me, but I’m checking out their blog.
Reading Ahead: Secondary Research (part 2) →
Another great post by Portigal with resources regarding the Future of Reading.
The Lost Art of Reading →
LA Times book editor, David Ulin, laments the “sound and fury signifying nothing” of the digital age, and longs for quiet days of meditating with books. Disconnected from the Fury, can lead to a deeper connection within ourselves.
WatchHere’s a link to Portigal’s final presentation.
"Reading Ahead" by Portigal Consulting →
SF based Portigal Consulting has done a very thorough research project on the Future of Reading. They’ve gone through and done some great interviews with photo-diaries, and participatory design studies. I’m looking at this as the groundwork for my study of sharing information in the digital age.