Our New Medium
Spring vacation couldn’t have come at a better time! I needed to relax and refresh, and the weather has been the warmest of my lifetime! My typical day this week: get up and make a bunch of polymer...
View ArticleWalking Tour App
My first time block had members from the White Bear Lake Historical Society in yesterday. They want a walking tour app designed and we volunteered to do it. Not that we know how to do it, but the...
View ArticleAcrobat PDF Portfolio
Each year, my Design and Interactive Media students collaborate with the students in our Food Service class to create a cookbook. It usually takes forever to pull it together in InDesign, and when I...
View ArticleIdeas for a Package Design Unit
On the first day of a package design unit, I have the students choose a template to make from Mirkwood Designs. There are several sizes and shapes to choose from, and for the most part they are easy to...
View ArticleSee Change Conference
The message in each of the speakers’ stories was the same: do what you really want to do. Success will find you. Mark Wheat, DJ at MPR’s The Current, takes an hour a day for time to himself. He is an...
View ArticleNorth Dakota State College of Science
Yesterday I went on a day trip to the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, ND, with a small group from my school and a larger group from other schools in the 916 consortium. We boarded a...
View ArticleRain Barrel Review
A rain barrel can be a lifesaver in a hot and dry summer like the one we are having now. I am on my third rain barrel and have plans to add one or two to the garage after we get gutters installed,...
View ArticleExtreme by Design on PBS
This movie follows the stories of three teams from Stanford’s d.school as they work together using design thinking to solve huge problems that may save thousands of lives in Bangladesh, Indonesia. The...
View ArticleThe Secret of Digital Publishing: It’s Easy!
As a magazine designer, I am thrilled to see my medium come back in the form of digital publications for the IPad. In fact, I am working on starting my own magazine, a lifestyle magazine for people...
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