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Posted on / Mar 1, 2012
What does debt look like?
Graduate student Jason Bacher has recently been exploring student loan debt for his thesis. His research has taken him down a rather interesting path, and compelled him to produce a website titled Design for Debt. Here, users are encouraged to provide a drawing on how they picture debt through mechanical turk, and post it to the site. Check out the site to see the results.
Posted on / Apr 21, 2011
Cross your t’s and dot your IRB’s
As a first year graduate student I am learning that there are a lot of formalities that one must go through in order to even start working on a thesis idea. First, you spend an entire semester working on WHAT your thesis is going to be about (totally worth the time) and just when you think that you’ve got it all approved and ready to go, the IRB steps in. Read More…
Posted on / Apr 17, 2011
“That’s why they call it Experimental Type.”
VCD 53051, or Experimental Typography, allows students to investigate “form, pattern and texture in typographic usage” in the VCD department’s Type High Press. It additionally offered me something perhaps more valuable: an opportunity to get my hands dirty.
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