Author: tterb
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What if … I finally documented my creative coding work from last semester
I’ve been enjoying a very long and fun break since the ITP show (more on that later) but now I’m aboutto start another semester! I can’t wait to start working on some new projects, but I still haven’t shown some of my work from my previous semester. First up: Introduction to Computational Media, or my…
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Safe Cracking at the ITP Winter show
After an exhausting couple days/weeks/months, I presented my safe cracking game at the ITP Winter show on December 17th & 18th. I’ll be updating my blog with photos, videos, and code shortly. But first, I’m going to take a nap. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me!
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Visual Language: Color
Let’s start with a test: color hue test The task is to arrange the colors from one end to the other in order to create a seamless gradient. The lower the score, the better. How’d you do? Here’s my score: I did pretty well! I found that if I stopped looking at the individual…
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Visual Language: Logo Design – Part 2
The next step of our homework assignment was to create a new ITP logo. I had been thinking about this all during the weekend so when I sat down with my pen and paper today I was ready to go. I started with brainstorming ideas about what ITP means to me and others. I wrote…
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Visual Language: Logo Design – Part 1
I really enjoyed this assignment to study logo design a bit. We were asked to find a logo that we liked and feel is successful. In thinking about modern logo design, I remembered a few that I really liked that were flexible and changed depending on the many different circumstances a logo is used for…
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Business Cards – first version
Front: Back: I really like the pixel caricature I use as my avatar for my email and other sites, so I wanted to include that with a friendly greeting on the front. I wanted to use a vertical format, but knew that my long name (and email, and website…) would pose a problem. I decided to…
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Typography
For this assignment we were asked to set our name in six typefaces; 3 serif and 3 sans serif types each. The choices are supposed to be used to describe us or parts of our personality. We were also asked to create expressive text – words that describe themselves. Here’s what I came up with:…
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Bad Signage
This week’s assignment was to find examples of ineffective signage around our neighborhood and then to redo one as an example. Here’s what I found: Some signs were very hard to read like the one below. What’s the name of this salon? I have no idea. Then there were signs that were crammed full of…
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Visual Design Assignment – What I like
Our first Assignment for our Visual Language class is to identify an example of design that we enjoy and then analyze it using the design principles we learned in class. I love the minimalist posters created by Justin Van Genderen. (more here) I had seen these before starting this class, and only knew that I loved…
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Bubble Rider – my first complete game in Processing
I just completed my first full game in Processing! It’s called Bubble Rider and you can play it here: Play Bubble Rider It’s a pretty simple game; you control a green and blue bubble as obstacles wiz past them. I’ll probably tweak it to make it more fun and have the difficulty ramp up nicely, but…
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Video and sound catch-up
This was one of our first projects in Video and Sound class. We were asked to create a soundscape recording. Our group had the idea of everyday sounds which eventually morphed into just breakfast sounds. I recorded all the sounds in my apartment with a Zoom H4N recorder and a small shotgun mic. Everyone in our…
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Design Meets Disability
Reading Response to excerpt from Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin I really enjoyed this weeks reading assignment about the design of tools used by those with physical disabilities. Pullin describes how most assistive devices are designed to draw as little attention to the device as possible. Prostheses illustrate this example clearly; they are usually flesh-colored…