Design
Some post-Watson thoughts
I’m in a coffee shop in Louisville, thinking about the conference, what I learned, and what I missed. I’m bummed that I got into town Thursday afternoon, in time to miss some cool talks Thursday that I wanted to see. After riding the city bus to my hotel, and then riding the wrong city bus [...]
The Future is Now: Presentation to the RU Board of Governors
From the WPA listserve (which I just joined a few days ago), Richard Miller’s 7-minute presentation to the Rutger University’s Board of Governors: I would say that the Humanities, in the last 10-20 years, somewhat lost its way in becoming overly focused on critique. The real function of the Humanities is to engage in the [...]
Pecha Kucha:
via Johndan Johnson-Eilola, a YouTube video by Daniel Pink on using emotional intelligence in signs, which is an interesting topic in and of itself, but he does the presentation in Pecha Kucha style, where there are 20 slides shown for only 20 seconds each, which I think is a cool idea (and cuts down on [...]
design and typeface
As an editor to OutLines (the OSU Pride Center newsletter) and assistant editor to Teaching with Writing this year, I’ve thought a bit about typefaces more so than in the past. I remember being young and enthusiastic back in 1990 with my new Macintosh Plus and playing non-stop with fonts. And then seeing the same [...]
