Readings 4

the article on Bullshit was absolutely brilliant. It is definitely a spot on judgment... The ones that get ahead not only in design, but in life as well, are not the ones with the skills, but the ones that can BS like none other. It is amazing to look back at my personal experiences in some of my classes where pure, unfiltered BS took a very poorly executed, night before, project into something that the professor not only admired, but gave a 75% for. Like the silly sounding children's potty training books - "Everybody Poops", Everybody Bullshits, some of us better than others, and in the design world, the power of good BS is greater than anything.

Design and Faux Science was very interesting as a critique of today's design. I would have to agree that most of the stuff that is made today seems to follow the same rules, very safe and repetitive. On the other hand, there is a lot of designs out there that have elements that are useless and make no sense. One aspect of the article that got me thinking was the question "Why don't designers study science?". In my personal experience, science was never my forte, neither was math, the way the human brain works, usually you are either an artistic person or a person that eats up math problems and numerical date for breakfast. I don't really agree with all of the article because of the education system in place. Science and all that other stuff isn't usually mixed in with design and art, so we never get a chance to truly explore it. Im fine with reading up a little on a science topic for a design project, but seeing how I got into design to get away from science, i would not want to mix the two on a more permanent level.

And last but not least, the guidelines to the CCAC Thesis project were super useful. The OCAD core course is basically the same thing, and finally, after almost three years of going to this school, I got some actual examples and ideas of what Thesis is all about. The breakdowns of schedules, and the tips are very helpful. This article is getting saved, definitely going to come in handy for next year.

Sadly, there was no continuity in the three readings, no real connection, but they were all brief and interesting enough to remember. The way it felt was, BS is something we all do NOW, Thesis is something that we WILL do, and mixing science into design is something that we MIGHT do. This is the only connection that I could pull out of these readings.

Last weeks reading articles (Reading 3)

Reading 3

Just a personal note on the readings.

I loved the Wikipedia article, as well as the New Yorker article on the death of the newspaper. Both were very entertaining, informative and interesting. They directly related to each other as they both talked about the death of a paper medium, and migration to the digital world.

one thing that bugged me is the third article on research reports or whatever. Even on the test, I could barely remember what it was about even though I read it the day before. The problem wasn't so much the article itself, but the fact that it seemed to in no way relate to the other readings.

I get that it is an important topic, but the grouping of the articles made the most important piece of knowledge out of the three... forgettable. the readings tend to be a lot more interesting when they all have a connection on some level.

Anyways, just a rant to whoever cares.