2022

I chose Principle 11, Use Edges and Value the Marginal, specifically the aspect of it involving the joining of separate ideas to form new solutions. I represented this as overlapping circles representing sun, water, and earth coming together to form plant life.  

For this assignment, I chose “Observe and Interact” as the Principle of Permaculture I wanted to focus on. I chose this Principle because I believe the first step towards finding better solutions is to interact and experience first hand. This provides a lot of incentive More

My logo is based on the permaculture design principle “resilience”. I chose this because I think all the principles that a company should have is resilience because just like people and the earth, we are resilient. I went with a spiral shape based off the More

In class, students learned about the 12 principles of permaculture designed by David Holmgren, who based these principles on his observations in nature. After students educated themselves on this concept, they were to pick one principle to create and design a logo that helps convey More

   1. observe and interact. in this photo/logo, you see an eye, the iris represents what we see, all the colors and things around us, it’s an aperture because like a camera we capture things we see, and by capturing things we get inspired, inspired More

I chose catch and store energy to base off my logo design. The principle deals with the capture and storage of energy, within an environment, buildings, and society. In my design for the logo I chose to create a vase to represent an object storing More

Task 6: Unplug for Fall Break! Leave your tech behind (or just bring a phone or camera), and enjoy some time with friends, time outdoors, time having fun. Take a well deserved break. For this week, post to the appropriate Slack channel a photo or More

Web Project: Design for Culture As tech designers, we want to be sure what we build actually creates the kinds of cultures that support our values and out happiness.  Doing this requires not just technical skills but also conceptual skills, and critical thinking skills, as More

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Consider some digital tech harm, explain it, then try a conceptual redesign with a visual.

“BLUE FILTER” SCREEN PROTECTOR* By: Griffin Lord   The Problem: Technology has advanced faster in the past 15 years than it has in the rest of human history. Though it has done a lot of good for the world it has done just as much More

Sacrificing Privacy for Sociability PROBLEM: State a problem or issue that you want to tackle and explain why it is important to you and to the world. The issue of privacy and social isolation in the digital age is becoming increasingly   convoluted as the years More