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Books on design.
Wojciech recently asked me to suggest some good books on design, which were more practical than theoretical. Here are a few suggestions that immediately came to mind. If you think something is missing, please let me know. I may also … Continue reading
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Recollection of Designs Past
Last Halloween, Jenna at Whismy and Spice, posted about trying to get her daughters into watching the Charlie Brown Halloween Special, “The Great Pumpkin” to no avail. I definitely remember watching them on CBS a few decades ago. Imprinted along … Continue reading
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The Politics Of The Designer.
Image source: Silverdocs In the post-Olympic, millions of people saw daily images of the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube (designed by Herzog de Meuron and PTW Architects, respectively) which are impressive structures that are now forever linked to the 2008 … Continue reading
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The Middle Ground Of Ethical Design.
Images source: Adaptive Design Association To be honest, discussions about ethics can be a downer, because you end up talking about what’s wrong and the positive stories set the ethical bar so high to instill a sense of defeat from … Continue reading
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the design of future things: evaluating design
Image source: jnd.org A couple of weeks ago, I finally finished, “The Design of Future Things,” by Donald Norman. I loved his popular book, “The Design of Everyday Things.” Norman is clearly an important thinker in the subject of design … Continue reading
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Projects
Selected projects and work samples: Open Transit Data Toolkit A website comprised of tutorials and other resources to help people learn how to use transit data. Lessons include finding transit data, data wrangling, and mapping transit data using R. FollowApp … Continue reading
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More grassroots mapping on the Gowanus…
I’m admittedly way behind on my grassroots mapping updates… but here some more photos from our grassroots mapping excursions. In our March 27th excursion, we also got immensely helpful assistance from Charles Stewart, who is a kite enthusiast / expert … Continue reading
Launched… Museum of the Phantom City
The Museum of the Phantom City launched, which invites people to interact with unbuilt architectural proposals through an iPhone app and website. The project plays with some interesting ideas about location (obviously) but also of how designers in the past … Continue reading
Something arrived in my mailbox: Manzine Issue 2.
I recently got a nice package in the mail, my eagerly awaited issue 2 of Manzine. What looks like a large format zine is actually a clever take on mens magazines. Created by a group of writers and designers based … Continue reading
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Bio
Weather Pattern is Ray Cha. product manager / project manager / product designer data / archives / infrastructure Baltimore / New York I am currently the Product Manager at LoanStreet, a platform to help banks buy and sell loans in … Continue reading
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