workwerks

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Website, process book.

darekbittner.com

I mostly worked on my website this weekend. I plan on taking all my scanned material to make a HPPH catalogue. I also want to incorporate an interactive way to read my most recent book online. That will probably be a winter break project.

still combining graphs and text

I was sick all vacation so I didn't get to do as much work as I wanted to but I used an image I found online that divides the circle up into 360 degrees. My original graphs have an inner circle for the morning and the outer is the evening, so I used an inner circle for pages 1-360 of the book and an outer circle for pages 361-720. The dots I placed represent the page number William James used habit, and also where on the page it appeared - I did volume 1 and 2 separately and then put them together.

after that you can stay on...

this came my way, thought I'd share.

All the time my ideal of teaching has been to argue with people on behalf of the idea that they are responsible for their own activities, that they are really, in a sense, the question, that ultimately they are what it is they have to contribute. The most critical part of that is for them to begin developing the ability to assign their own tasks and make their own criticism in direct relation to their own needs and not in light of some abstract criteria. Because once you learn how to make your own assignments instead of relying on someone else, then you have learned the only thing you really need to get out of school, that is, you’ve learned how to learn. You’ve become your own teacher. After that you can stay on — for the facilities, the context, the dialogue, the colleagueship, the structure, and so forth — but you’ll already be on your own.

from —
“Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees: Conversations With Robert Irwin”

I am sympathetic to this view, even for design where work is frequently — but not always — for a client.
Sometimes, all one needs is a single idea or prompt, to get the thing going. And then you're off!

More here.

form and function, reading for Monday

Here are links to two think-pieces that Caroline would like us to consider.
We recognize it's on short notice, so if it appears we're not ready tomorrow (Monday), we'll put this back to Wednesday.

They are

Form Follows Function, Right? Not So Fast
by Tom Dair, FastCompany
www.fastcompany.com/1282208/form-follows-function-right-not-so-fast

and

Function is Dead – Long Live Function
Gary Dickson
www.graphic-design.com/DTG/dickson/form_follows_function.html

Hope everyone's restored, and ready for our last two weeks!