For me, cars were an entry point to design. Cars were around me, I could look at them whenever I wanted, and I made a weird habit of identifying all the cars around me, all the time, when I was fifteen or sixteen*. I grew up in Metro Detroit, too, so the presence of the …
Month: March 2014
I recently saw an exhibit at the DePaul Art Museum called The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus. It was surprising and informative — prior to seeing the exhibit, I knew that there was conflict in the area around Sochi, and that it was fairly economically depressed, but I didn’t know …
Left to right – John Berry, director of Design West Michigan, with Clive Owens. On Wednesday, February 5th, Design West Michigan hosted a lecture featuring Clive Owens, founder of Society for Experiential Graphic Design. It introduced me to something that I hadn’t known much about before – experiential design. Experiential design is the category of …