March 2008
9 posts
Anyone for Waiting Tables?
This week, we’re sitting in Alliance Bakery in Wicker Park. They have good coffee and beautifully decorated cupcakes and cakes. Its an interesting space as well. If you plan to stay at the bakery to enjoy your coffee and baked goods, you purchase your goods and then go outside and walk to the next door to sit down at eclectic tables and couches. The two spaces are not connected on the interior....
Designing Your Life
Finishing up A-session of Spring semester and recruitID in the past two weeks has brought prospects of the future front and center for us here at the Institute of Design. While in the midst of analyzing data, building conceptual prototypes, and conducting user research, we are also trying to figure out where we will be interning this summer or working after graduation. But more importantly, we...
Book Review: The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving...
Michelangelo Was a Sculptor…
As we all know Michelangelo was an artist, and a revolutionary one. One might almost say that he was innovative. He could work in sketches, fresco, and marble. Michelangelo was recruited by the most powerful men of the time and lived on their dime. His work was flocked to and studied by aspiring artists across Italy. Michelangelo, was a powerful humanist...
The New Idiom Has a Brother
Much like we at the New Idiom like to keep students well-informed about the school and design-related activities, ID alumni want to do the same. ID+, the ID alumni newsletter, was just launched a couple months ago. Headed up by alumni Melody Roberts, Carol Crews and Elizabeth Glenewinkel, the alumni newsletter strives to unite graduates of ID and inform them of school happenings and let them...
Around Town: Pecha Kucha Night
Last Tuesday Martyr’s was packed to a sold out crowd for Pecha Kucha night. This was Chicago’s 4th Pecha Kucha, which began in Tokyo five years ago as a presentation style performance for designers. Amy Batchu was among that night’s thirteen presenters, who each presented slideshows of 20 images in 20 seconds in any topic.
Batchu was asked to present by her former employer Peter Exley, of...
They (might) want YOU: ID alumni descend on...
It can be kind of awkward, sitting across an interview table from someone you sat next to in class only last year. Such cognitive dissonance notwithstanding, over a dozen recent grads descended on recruitID this spring, to kick the tires on the latest additions to ID’s product line (i.e. you). Here’s what a few of them had to say.
Tamara Bohorquez (MDes ‘03) Sr. Experience...
New AND Past IDer: Ed Koizumi
Please quickly introduce yourself in a sentence or two. Where are you from? When did you graduate from ID and which program?
I am Edward S. Koizumi. I was born in a small mountain village in Japan and emigrated to the US with my family in 1955. I attended Chicago Public Schools and went to Lane Tech High School. From there, I was lucky to have received a full year drafting scholarship to IIT...
Strategic Spaghetti Planning
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Need a real meal to carry you over this week? Not going home for spring break? You don’t need a lot of time, or a plane ticket, to relish this home cooked classic. Mom’s spaghetti with meat sauce. My mom’s, that is. And it only takes twenty minutes. If you need more visual guidance, pay me a visit – I have a video of this one from my action script final for Grimes...
Observed
Personas and the role of Design Documentation
Typographica’s Favorite typefaces of 2007 Congratulations FF Meta Serif!
Master the Illustrator pen tool practice makes perfect
Great excuse for a Milwaukee trip FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe
3-way Chess http://meignorant.com/3-way_chess
Create your own splatter art, ala Jackson Pollock www.jacksonpollock.org
See the difference you...