Cabinets Week 1: The Met and The Frick
Last Saturday afternoon I visited The Frick Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for Cabinets of Wonder. For each visit, Nancy has asked us to gather our first impressions of the place, observe others in the space, and write a collection of short reviews, adopting a variety of viewpoints. The Frick always seems to [...]
Bestiary at the ITP Spring Show
Bryan and I are having a great time showing Bestiary, our projection-based book of randomly generated animals, at the ITP Spring Show. Here’s a quick video we shot this morning during set up: Bestiary from Caroline Brown on Vimeo. Yesterday was day one of the show, and we got lots of great feedback on the [...]
Punchcard: Design Expo final presentations
Lee Sean Huang has posted a thorough write-up of our final presentation for Design Expo, Punchcard. He summarized the project nicely: Punchcard is a proposal for a membership service targetting freelancers, independent workers and others who do not work in tradition offices. Punchcard membership would give members access to a network of coworking spaces. In [...]
Bestiary Sketch (aka Menagerie, Round 3)
Bryan Lence and I revisited our A to Z midterm to create another version of the creature maker. We kept our foundation of the context-free grammar, but we altered our template for the images. Instead of layering transparencies in set positions, we anchored each image to a specific variable associated with another image (i.e. the [...]
Fall Classes
Hooray! Fall course schedules are out! I’m looking forward to my classes: Design for UNICEF with Clay Shirky, Cabinets of Wonder with Nancy Hechinger, Crafting with Data with Rob Faludi, and Visual Communication with Katherine Dillon.
5000 Dogs in the Clone Lab
I chose to revisit the Animal as Object assignment for my final project in Animals, People and Those in Between. Instead of really focusing on Mira this time, however, I decided I wanted to convey how overwhelmed I was by the number of dogs supposedly used in the lab that cloned the first dog: 5000. [...]