Thesis Book . . . Printed Thesis, 7.125-inch by 8.25-inch book
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Much like this site, the book is a collection of projects that form the thesis. Unlike the site, the book format allows for a narrative, a journey through the work. The book takes its format from the introduction, “A Walk to School.” My routine walk ends at school with the newspaper. Clippings continue to separate projects thereafter. The book includes connections between projects, and writings that place the projects within the context of our speed of society.
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Tracking Letters . . . Email application and printed log of emails
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Tracking Letters_ is made with a software application that records the timing of keyboard entry. Its primary use is as an email entry program. Using the software, I tracked a week's worth of my own emails, collecting them into this 168-page book. The 34 correspondences demonstrate the shifts in timing, pauses and errors that exist when writing. The book refers to a journal or a small sketchbook, a form that holds the same level of intimacy as personal correspondences.
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Video Clock . . . Flash MX-scripted clock
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The smallest unit on a clock is one second. But the smallest unit in a video camera is 1/30 second. To film 60 frames, it takes two seconds. The relationship between still frames and “still” seconds led me to a clock consisting of video stills. It runs as a Flash MX application that reads the computer’s local time and adjusts the video accordingly. It can be presented in a gallery or used as a desktop applicaiton.
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Pause, Decide, Continue . . . The Traffic Signal: A Visual Study with Derivative Projects
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Pause, Decide, Continue is a collection of five projects and research on the traffic signal. The project began by choosing a specific signal, researching it, writing about it, then creating descriptive projects. The themes of pausing, timing and color came to the forefront during the four-month-long project. The results appear within this book.
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Stop,light . . . Series of photographs, 8-inch by 8-inch book
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It was particularly odd when the streetlights were burned out at Prospect and Hillside streets. I couldn’t help but notice in the absence of the overhead light, the greenness of the pavement. In an instant, it became amber, moments later, red. By slowing down what the naked eye sees and capturing it in a 12-second exposure, the complexity of light patterns on the pavement comes to life.
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Interactive Recipe Application . . . User-controlled video
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This is a user-controlled video that puts a complete recipe on the screen of the at-home cook. Instead of a scripted entertainment show, this video shows every stage of a recipe, without cuts or gaps in production.
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Black and White, then, Color . . . 16-page essay and timeline
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When we track man’s great inventions, we see that they are normally made first in black and white, then, years later, in color. This essay and timeline hope to debunk black and white as a nostalgic part of the past, but rather a necessary part of the future, too. This appeared in a joint publication on color by the 2004 class.
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Box For Sale . . . Flyer created to sell a photo box
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Needing to sell an archival box for photographs, I figured the best way to stop someone walking by the bulletin board was to promote its dimensionality. Printed to scale and in the color of the actual box, the flyer did the job in a few hours.
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Holiday Card . . . Letterpressed Christmas card
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Sent to friends and design colleagues to bring attention to the normality of mass emails on special occasions. The form of the card matches a mass e-mailings, but the card was made in the most time-consuming way.
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Fresh Food Public Service Announcements . . . Four 15-second videos
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The four 15-second public service announcements tap into the modular, fabricated nature of packaged goods. The premise being: “if you can't recognize it, then what is it?” The shape of fresh food can become the symbol of what to look for at the grocery store or the farmer’s market.
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Player Pause . . . Interactive Video
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“Player Pause” is a project that deconstructs the timeline of a video panel into multiple timelines. Each cast member exists on his/her own timeline, allowing the user to pause a character while the others interrelate as if others were in real-time.
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A Lecture Visualized . . . Printed record of a speech
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After delivering a slideshow of initial thesis research, we were asked to design someone else’s text and images. This collaboration was with classmate Christian Schmidt. His presentation “Program and Mutable Form” was presented in this foldable pamphlet including all of his text, images and the speed of the delivery of the presentation.
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Two Times . . . Series of photographs, 10-inch by 10-inch book
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The photo series “Two Times” adds a second moment to the traditional one in an attempt to create a photo story in one frame. The viewer is challenged to interpret the in-between space of the two moments. The photograph becomes less about the common elements in the photograph and more about the items that have changed. Common elements are still and the volatile ones help expand the meaning of the single moment into the flow of time.
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Spatial Typography . . . Dimensional and time-based experiments in foam
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I spent two semesters experimenting with a hot-wire foam cutter. Using this room-sized machine, I applied speed and space to the familiar 2-D letterform. Five different results are included here: bi-directional letterforms, Helvetica cut when the cutter is moving quickly, type cut around a corner, type cut through punctuation, and the results from interstitial forms.
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tLED . . . Typeface designed for the traffic signal
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While investigating the traffic signal, I began to imagine letters appearing within the signal’s face. The letters appear over time in one fixed space. Taking the LED face off the road and attaching it to a common phone as a caller ID signal or in the gallery are uses for this LED light.
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Gothic 60 . . . Typeface design
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Long before coming to Yale, I picked up a type specimen book at the Chicago Printer’s Row book fair. The one typeface that intrigued me most through the years was Gothic No. 60. My interest was to take the most distinct letters from each size and to make a unified, digitized version of the face.
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Clarity Is Lost With Speed . . . Poster made from a phrase cut from foam
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This phrase was cut first with a hot-wire foam cutter. The speed of the wire increased as time passed. It was slow and precise at the start, and fast at the end. It was cut into foam then converted to a poster. The typeface is “Daily”—created by classmate Tracy Jenkins for the foam cutter.
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Master's Thesis,
Yale University
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