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Feedback DG611 Aesthetics of a Design

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 23, 2009

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Dear Thomas,

You are an open and interesting student.

The observations you did, were from a depth level.

Active participation during the group sessions /// good

50×3 sketches /// OK

Three models of improved products (A,B,C)/// Thomas worked out three models of a detail. The details were worked out in vaseline, gelatine and glued paper. All of three objects were well worked out. I was impressed of the model made by the glued paper. Well done !!!

3′ movie of the interviews /// OK

Presentation, which communicates your findings to an outside audience /// The different stages of the models, the failures and the successes were interesting to see. Also the other students were curious about your research and try outs.

Thomas created awareness and understanding of the basic aspects of aesthetics.

He explored the expressive power of forms.

He’s able to analyze a product’s appearance in relation to function and interaction.

He has a vocabulary for discussing about form and meaning.

He’s able to create refined physical models.

He explored different forms of (end)presentations.

Thomas answers on following criteria,

Observed and analyzed objects individually and relative to each other

Learned to be critical and discuss the concepts of design and aesthetics

Formulated a definition of `design / aesthetics’

Explored and visualized product ideas in 3D models

Searched other materials

Made an appealing presentation without using PowerPoint

Presented his process and outcomes to the classmates

If I look back to the pictures I took, I can say you tried to explore several material techniques.

Go on with this enthusiasm and you proofed a lot of materials have less limits than we think.

Tags: Aesthetics

Feedback DG218

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 19, 2009

In: DG218| Integrating Technology| Reflection
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You learned the most important concepts and knowledge of digital communication systems, including major functional blocks of transmitter, channel and receiver, multiple access techniques, and analyzing systems performance.
The report and presentation are in a clear structure. The questions are well handled during the presentation. The link between theory to the implementation was well studied. More analysis is needed for tailoring the technology for the helath monitoring application.
I hope that you can apply the knowledge that you have learned from this assignment to your projects. Keep your active attitude and think critically.

This feedback confirms what I thought about my learnings in this asssignment. I learned basic knowledge and can now talk with experts on this field about this subject. Not very usefull yet..

Odopod: TwitterSketch

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 19, 2009

In: DBJ18| Inspiration
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I found a new blog with some inspiring content: Odopod. I got in touch with it via Twitter when Koen send me a link to the application above (click the picture) called Twittersketch.
This application searches for the words “up”, “down”, “left and “right” or for a color in the latets tweets from the public timeline. This way a kind of painting appears on the screen. This is a huge inspiration for my project Twitter Traces.

More cool apps from Odopod:
Generative Compositional Engine
Audio Spectrum Analyzer

Tags: API, Flash, Twitter

Abstract

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 16, 2009

In: DG112
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Youtube

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 15, 2009

In: Brawl
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I think youtube can be more successful as it is at this moment without any huge change of the website.
I came to this idea today when I was looking for a vidoe I watched previous week, but couldn’t remeber how it was called. And after half an hour of searching and clicking links that lead to other links to click I finally found it. I also have this problem regarding music. I’ve listened to a new song and a week after it is stuck in my head and I want to know what song it was. WHat do I do? I go to last.fm and look it up in my played tracks.
So I was thinking: Why doesn’t Youtube have this function? A common though among last.fm users is that they “waste” songs when listening to them while they’re not scrobbled, would this also work for video’s? I think so, I would like to tell my friends I watched a video and do it al the time by linking them on Facebook.
My advice to Google: Go and have a peek and learn from last.fm!

Tags: Last.fm, Youtube

Replycounter

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 13, 2009

In: DBJ18
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http://twerff.nl/phidgets/Lampcheck.swf

Tags: API, Twitter

Funny stuff

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 13, 2009

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A designer who is blogging like me.
http://jasonamendolara.wordpress.com/stuff-that-makes-me-happy/
NICE

http://www.worldwidefred.com/home.htm

http://badderhomesandgardens.com/

Vision?

Posted by: Thomas van de Werff on: November 12, 2009

In: Vision
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Something I would really like the world to be is interactive.. Everything should be interactive. Poals you pass by should bend, tiles should light up, I should be able to influence the colors of the KVK building at the campus..

Tags: Vision