In class today, Stephanie and I presented how far along we have gone with our design brief. I believe that it was a successful presentation and feel positive about going into the next step of transformation. I think Lars is trying to scare us and the whole class that the transformation stage should be more difficult than exploration [...]

Yesterday, Linda Worbin my mentor had taken me and my programmer deep in the woods of Sweden to the enchanted Rydal Museum. This place used to be a mill for textiles in the early 1900’s which has not been operating for quite sometime. The entrance had sort of a haunted feeling as you would walk towards the Textile Possibilities Exhbition. There [...]

My school took all the colors from the sky and spun it into yarn

It’s been a long 8 hours of design history and my brain is totally fried but will find the last few minutes of energy to write this blog. The lecture began as a continuation to the last lesson and it was interesting to hear what my fellow classmates thought of the city Borås and in what [...]

How do you measure when how much it too much?. We have been analyzing how we came about our design brief. Relatively this is a simple question when someone asks how did you make this. A natural response would be to explain how it’s been fabricated but apparently I have been mis-interpreting the question. From [...]

These days Dan and I have been practicing as a duet team in our little granny’s nook. Soon we will be good enough to play a recital followed by a small reception. Will keep you posted.

I am feeling a bit overwhelmed but excited about the facilities here at my school. I will follow this post with some photos so you know exactly what I mean. These days I’ve been feeling a bit anxious to get my hands dirty since these past few weeks have been all about design theory, history, [...]

A couple of days have gone by since we had our first Design History seminar with Marcus who is teaching the course. Looking back on my undergraduate studies I had taken a design history course that reflected on design and artifacts. The importance in artificats and what designers have done in the past that shows [...]

a photo I took behind my school