June 28, 2008
Allan Chochinov (one of the 3D Product instructors at SVA MFAD) gave this talk at the PSFK Conference New York in Spring 2008. This relates to the first assignment he gave our class which consisted on making pooper scoopers. What happened when we were asked a supremely stupid question in the hopes of driving innovation? Lots of bad and good shit!
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June 2, 2008

Todo lo que empieza termina...

So the school year has been over for nearly a month now and I’ve been busy relaxing and getting back into the real world. I still continue to post frequently on The Critical Eye for the CRIT Blog and I am really excited to be interning at EMPAX starting this Wednesday. New York City is beautiful right now, full of green everywhere. Soon some posts on the “fashion show” and the “chair project” so come back and don’t forget to bring your eyes.
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April 26, 2008
This is the logo that I created for the end of year fashion runway show and exhibition taking place May 5th… In a week! (For more information on the show click here). I am doing a line of five umbrellas that make statements about freedom of expression and human rights. Hopefully everything will turn out alright but one week right now just doesn’t feel like enough. Time sucks.
This is the logo that I created for the end of year fashion runway show and exhibition taking place May 5th… In a week! (For more information on the show click here). I am doing a line of five umbrellas that make statements about freedom of expression and human rights. Hopefully everything will turn out alright but one week right now just doesn’t feel like enough. Time sucks.
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April 24, 2008

Adobe Suite CS4

Some Adobe guys just came to give us a taste of what Adobe Suite CS4 will be all about. Basically there is more integration between the programs. InDesign CS4 can export to SWF and you can set the transition of your pages in your Flash file right from InDesign CS4. Extremely simple. They also talked about After Effects and Flash integration (which is an obvious one) and about Adobe Media Player, Flex and Air Applications. We have to wait until Spring 2009 before we can play around with Adobe Suite CS4 but I think the wait will be worth it.
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April 11, 2008
This week John Carlin, CEO of Funny Garbage, came to give us a Guest Lecture at the MFA Design program here at SVA. I was in charge of making the poster announcing the event. I finally choose to use the one I show above on the right although Steven Heller approved the left one also. Now I wished I had sticked to the one on the left. Not only because it’s less “web 2.0” but because it’s more daring and works better to present his talk. His ideas about the future of digital entertainment made me think a lot. He talked about having songs that you own respond and sound differently depending on who is listening to them, the weather, the speed at which you are walking with your mp3 player, etc. He also talked about digital images aging like live things do. He talked about how digital content (music, videos, images) could interact with the information on your computer (resume, itunes library, etc) and provide a much richer and evolving experience than digital content provides to date. Click here to see a larger version of the posters.

This week John Carlin, CEO of Funny Garbage, came to give us a Guest Lecture at the MFA Design program here at SVA. I was in charge of making the poster announcing the event. I finally choose to use the one I show above on the right although Steven Heller approved the left one also. Now I wished I had sticked to the one on the left. Not only because it’s less “web 2.0” but because it’s more daring and works better to present his talk.

His ideas about the future of digital entertainment made me think a lot. He talked about having songs that you own respond and sound differently depending on who is listening to them, the weather, the speed at which you are walking with your mp3 player, etc. He also talked about digital images aging like live things do. He talked about how digital content (music, videos, images) could interact with the information on your computer (resume, itunes library, etc) and provide a much richer and evolving experience than digital content provides to date.

Click here to see a larger version of the posters.

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April 9, 2008
I just received an e-mail from The Webby Awards! My FIT SONG type animation has been selected as an Official Honoree. This basically means that I didn’t win and that I didn’t get nominated but I got Honored over 10,000 entries. Cool enough. Extract from the e-mail:  It is my pleasure to inform you that Fit Song has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Student category in The 12th Annual Webby Awards. The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to work that scores in the top 15% of all work entered into the Webby Awards.  With nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an outstanding accomplishment for you and your team. Your listing on the Webby site is located here. 

I just received an e-mail from The Webby Awards! My FIT SONG type animation has been selected as an Official Honoree. This basically means that I didn’t win and that I didn’t get nominated but I got Honored over 10,000 entries. Cool enough.

Extract from the e-mail:  It is my pleasure to inform you that Fit Song has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Student category in The 12th Annual Webby Awards. The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to work that scores in the top 15% of all work entered into the Webby Awards.  With nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an outstanding accomplishment for you and your team. Your listing on the Webby site is located here. 

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April 5, 2008
Proudly wearing a fez I created in Maira Kalman’s class/home. We were told the beautiful textile is from Russia but maybe it’s not. That’s ok. What a great way to start the week…
Proudly wearing a fez I created in Maira Kalman’s class/home. We were told the beautiful textile is from Russia but maybe it’s not. That’s ok. What a great way to start the week…
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April 4, 2008
Just came back from an exhibition by Gary Panter (http://www.garypanter.com/) and accidently bumped on Michel Gondry. Cool. Really cool.
Just came back from an exhibition by Gary Panter (http://www.garypanter.com/) and accidently bumped on Michel Gondry. Cool. Really cool.
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April 2, 2008
Being the Barack Obama supporter I am, this assignment was harder than one might think… But it was a lot of fun!
Being the Barack Obama supporter I am, this assignment was harder than one might think… But it was a lot of fun!
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one’s head at the same time.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scott Stowell (www.notclosed.com) gave us this assignment. It consists in producing two compositions which exist in complete contradiction with each other. We were given six themes to pick from: My Country, Equality, Peace, Barack Obama, Television or Wal-Mart. Being the Barack Obama supporter I am, I choose Barack Obama and made two different set of pro-Obama and anti-Obama buttons. I am frankly very happy with the whole process and the final result.
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one’s head at the same time.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scott Stowell (www.notclosed.com) gave us this assignment. It consists in producing two compositions which exist in complete contradiction with each other. We were given six themes to pick from: My Country, Equality, Peace, Barack Obama, Television or Wal-Mart. Being the Barack Obama supporter I am, I choose Barack Obama and made two different set of pro-Obama and anti-Obama buttons. I am frankly very happy with the whole process and the final result.
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