After great in-class critique and suggestions, and the generous donation of an old Apple PowerBook G4 by my teacher, I decided to attempt to repurpose an old computer. I began tearing apart the Powerbook using this tutorial. There is also this video, which I of course found after I had already disassembled my machine. There […]
Posts Tagged ‘interface’
November 7, 2010
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Saussure & Semiotics presentation
By Tami in Fall 2010, Major Studio: InterfaceBelow is a presentation I put together for Major Studio to explain the contributions of Swiss Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and his idea of Semiotics. When I studied Linguistics as an undergrad, I learned about structuralism, which is just another signifier of the same signified that semiotics represents (confused yet?). It was interesting for me […]
September 20, 2010
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4×4 Wrap-Up
By Tami in Fall 2010, Major Studio: InterfaceAfter presenting my 4 Projects in 4 Days (4×4) in class today, I have more ideas and inspiration to move forward with some of my projects: Craft and market the recycled-packaging notebooks. Create some sort of closing mechanism for notebooks (rubberband? wire wrapper?). Design and implement repurpose.cc. Try to create a post-per-day or small community. […]
September 19, 2010
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4×4 Project 4
By Tami in Major Studio: InterfaceConcept: Show the life of a product, inspired by The Story of Stuff Project and Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough & Michael Braungart. Strategy: Illustrate the consumption to waste process as an animatic Manifestion: Created using hand-drawn sketches put in a timeline in AfterEffects. The Life of an iPod from Tami on Vimeo.
September 19, 2010
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4×4 Project 3
By Tami in Major Studio: InterfaceConcept: Create a forum for Repurposing project ideas Strategy: Build a website to post project ideas, create a community for repurpose-ers Manifestation: I purchased the domain “repurpose.cc” to make sure that I can realize this project in the future, and at a convenient domain name. My original structure for the site can be seen on […]
September 19, 2010
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4×4 Project 2
By Tami in Major Studio: InterfaceConcept: Inspired by The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin, by William S. Burroughs, I decided to write an all-encompassing Manifesto for designers. Strategy: This Manifesto would be a combination of three other Manifestos: The Repair Manifesto by Platform 21, which encourages design of products and systems that are repairable and thus live extensive, meaningful lives. […]
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September 19, 2010
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4×4 Project 1
By Tami in Major Studio: InterfaceConcept: Re-purposing massive waste due to too many shipping boxes. Strategy: Use received cardboard boxes for a new purpose Manifestation: I received 5 boxes in the mail this week. Normally when I have things shipped to me, I ask that all of my items from one store be shipped together to use less packaging and […]