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Project 1 — Dog owners

Week 4 (2/22–2/24) And so we’ve arrived at the end of an incredibly fruitful and engaging Project 1. I’m really proud of how our group fared today; we spent a lot of additional time rehearsing and flushing out our presentation since our dry run last week, and I think our hard work really…

Information Design

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InfoDes — 2.5.21 Process thoughts
InfoDes — 2.5.21 Process thoughts
Information Design

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May 10, 2021

P4 Process Book (Personal data dashboard)

After months of diverse and exciting projects, it was time to take on a culmination of all our past work. P4 was a way for us to practice visualizing data of our choosing while incorporating all of our learnings from P1-P3. What was neat about this project was that we…

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P4 Process Book (Personal data dashboard)
P4 Process Book (Personal data dashboard)

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Mar 28, 2021

Project 3 — Dog walkers revisited

P3 Reflections It was a really rewarding process to be able to revisit our work from P1 and take it so much further. Our group had a blast taking the countless ideas we had generated weeks ago and refining them, and overall, I thought this design process was really immersive and engaging…

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Project 3 — Dog walkers revisited
Project 3 — Dog walkers revisited

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Mar 4, 2021

Project 2 — WT Summer Camp Rocks!

[Note: written entries are in chronological order, so more recent updates are at the bottom.]

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Project 2 — WT Summer Camp Rocks!
Project 2 — WT Summer Camp Rocks!

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CDF 2018 Fall

·Dec 16, 2018

P5 — Process Documentation

This was it. The final project of a semester full of learning, development, and exploration. Throughout P1-P4, I had gotten to experience all sorts of new design. From posters, to book covers, to graphics, each project had been a stepping stone leading up to the final project. And in many…

Design

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P5 — Process Documentation
P5 — Process Documentation
Design

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CDF 2018 Fall

·Dec 16, 2018

P4 — Process Documentation

When I originally started researching the minor in Design at CMU, I was nervous. I was fascinated by design, and I desperately wanted to start learning its fundamentals. But I was not a designer by trade — I was an artist, and I felt far more comfortable with a pencil…

Design

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P4 — Process Documentation
P4 — Process Documentation
Design

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CDF 2018 Fall

·Dec 16, 2018

P4 Brainstorming

Themes: Rags to Riches, Discovered treasure (can the love interest be considered “treasure?”) Color Scheme: purple, blue, yellow, brown Book #1: Aladdin Front: Aladdin, by Ron Clements and Jon Musker Spine: Aladdin — (lamp icon) — Ron Clements and Jon Musker Back: Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams and…

Writing

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Writing

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CDF 2018 Fall

·Oct 13, 2018

P3 — Process Documentation

For me, Project 3 was a completely different experience than Project 2. Project 2 involved a significant amount of initial idea brainstorming, and then latching on to a few ideas that worked. But the main theme for Project 3 was the presence of endless iterations. While I did also have…

Typography

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P3 — Process Documentation
P3 — Process Documentation
Typography

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CDF 2018 Fall

·Sep 23, 2018

Project 3: Type & Hierarchy

Typeface: Avenir Research: Avenir was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988. It is an example of a sans serif font. In the 1920s, certain sans serif fonts began using circles as a geometric foundation. Avenir was based off this idea, but it was intended to be a more “organic” and…

Typography

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Typography

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CDF 2018 Fall

·Sep 23, 2018

CDF Project 3: Exercises

Exercise 1: Typeface Tracing Exercise 2: Typographic Voice Word 1: Relaxation Favorite typeface: Kefa When it came to depicting a word like “relaxation,” I wanted to pick a typeface that really emphasized smoothness and comfort. …

Design

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CDF Project 3: Exercises
CDF Project 3: Exercises
Design

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