Design

Design, Patterns & Typography

This page is a combination of projects made for classes at CU within the TAM program, as well as personal project to practice skills and because making stuff is fun.

IMPACT OF THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY APP

This project illustrates the impact of the clothing industry in the form of an information app. You can find the app in InVision here, but since I use the free version, it might disappear in the next few months to be replaced by new projects! Either way, check out the slides of the app below, and start thinking about whats on
your skin.

COLORADO SYMPHONY MAILER PROJECT

Our assignment for this project was to create a mailer that folded down to a 5''x4'' rectangle from a 10''x16'' poster with given text and an additional constraints of two type faces and three colors. This is the first iteration of the project.

FINAL VERSION

VERSION 1

VERSION 2

EXPRESSIVE BOOK

Book Pages

This project's goals was to take an existing poem or song lyric, and express the words using typography, with minimal help from shapes and lines. For my project, I chose the poem "The Quiet Machine" by Ada Límon from her book Bright Dead Things.

EXPRESSIVE WORD PROJECT

OTHER RECENT PROJECTS

This app was created for the Toyota Mobility Challenge as a solution to the mobility problem for people with bikes or wheel chairs to know when the bus has space for them or not.

Above is an extension of the Expressive Word project above. I enjoyed taking the project and made another one with a word of my choice; esoteric. What is esoteric about this is that the word is broken up by the golden rectangle. That is itself esoteric because few know what the golden rectangle is.

PROJECTS FROM THE MEANING, INFORMATION, & TECHNOLOGY CLASS

RESPONSE TO THE MOVIE "HER"

This is my creative response to the movie Her. Given the nature about the theoretical integration of technology and human relationships, I am exploring the relationship between the chemistry that creates love in our relationships, and how that is influenced by the technology that connects (or disconnects) us, when there is a human component missing.

COMMENTARY ON DIVERSITY ON WIKIPEDIA

After readings about the lack of diversity of Wikipedia's content contributors, particularly in relation to gender. Our assignment was to creatively respond to wether or not this was a problem. My focus and perspective was addressing how each gender saw entering the contributor community. In the reading, there were many reports from women telling of their experience with posting and the barriers they felt they faced. The interface was difficult, confusing, and code based, and the community wassexist, intimidating, and abusive. However, males entering the

community did not seem to experience (or simply did not report experiencing) these challenges. My response illustrates the different gender lens that is applied to seeing the situation. While this is clearly a comment on Wikipedian diversity, it can also be applied to any field or situation that women face different entry barriers created by the established, male dominated community; such as with engineering or computer science.

DIAGRAM OF THE INTERNET

To display our understanding of the internet, we we're assigned to create a diagram of how the internet works. In my diagram, I wanted to elucidate some of the things I found most confusing about the internet; mostly the number of routers data would go through before it was able to get to you. To better understand how the internet works, follow the cat photo from the desktop mac computer to the Facebook server. Note the disassembly at the desktop and reassembly at the server.

EMILY DAUB