A tale of two screens
I love the performance review season. Taking just a few short hours to chew the cud and reflect on how the world is working and how we should be adapting to ensure evolving client demands continue to be well met …
Tag: design
Illusory art
The mind is easily tricked. Some artists make their living using paint to deceive us into believing we are seeing impossible things – floating trees or bricks recessed in a formerly flat faced brick wall in the shape of a tree. It’s fascinating stuff.
Viva la Fashion Revolution Week 2023!
Fashion Revolution Week is back again and this year it is bigger and better than ever. As ever, CCI are hosting a week of exciting events to celebrate the positive impact fashion can have on the world from 22-29 April, from upcycling plastics to using the humble t-shirt to turn yourself into a walking activism billboard. Just turn up and join in anything that interests you. You will need to sign up in advance for the online panel discussion on Thursday 27 April.
Cataloguing gender: a very library design problem
From the questionable design choice to include an author’s presumed gender in their global library name authority record to the gendered nature of names in general, society seems to have made some questionable design choices in how we choose to label people that have far-reaching consequences.
RangKnit: let’s knit our home together!
I feel inspired by and excited about all of the CCI PhD students’ research topics but none more than Pooja Shah’s. I’ve watched her research emphasis change and develop over time and now she is ready to move beyond her PhD exploring the possibilities presented by incorporating diverse textures, forms and designs into knitted artefacts into an exciting future. Join Pooja for the two workshops that perhaps mark the transition between her past and future as a researcher. Aimed at experienced knitters, these workshops offer an opportunity to be inspired by Pooja’s research and to engage with her in conversation about the meaning knitting has in your life while you knit your own far from the ordinary creation.
Never have we felt so old
Nothing makes a person feel old like remembering a time before the students just arriving were born… or indeed before the internet. Even if you are just joining us, many of these things became obsolete in your lifetime. Prepare to feel very old suddenly as you watch this video about things that became obsolete since 2000!
Engage your brain better and faster with sketchnoting
You think you can’t draw? You feel embarrassed to show anything in public? How about just sketching for yourself? Read on.
Engineering chocolate
Just as many sculptors enjoy eating chocolate, some chefs have turned to sculpting in chocolate. Amaury Guichon in Las Vegas here unveils his latest extravagance in chocolate built a simulacrum of a robotic arm, complete with some moving, though sadly not powered, joints.
Thinking like a Designer
Learning development in a creative faculty A faculty-based learning developer (LD) must accommodate the full range of subjects and types of learners in their specific contexts. The ‘design thinking’ (DT) five basic stages of ‘empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test’ that …
Illustration students work on display in UoP Library
Come and see the beautiful sketches from our first year BA (Hons) Illustration students that we have on display in the library. Students were asked to explore the Library and Special Collections. They picked a topic from a ‘lucky dip’ …
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