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July 25, 2008

Sketching in Hardware Day 1: John Maeda

  • reflecting on Bell Labs' work with artists
  • and the move by Michael Noel to policy
  • from Design by Numbers to Ben Fry and Casey Reas - they were right in working on Processing! remaining open to discovery
  • Scratch and Michael Resnick
  • the beauty of limited vocabulary - and how does that relate to "individual artistic expression" (heavy scare quotes) - what is novel? does it matter that something is novel? or is it okay just to do stuff for fun?
  • mixing student and faculty concerns on one blog - resisting attempt to separate them so that peopole can listen to each other
  • looking for something simpler in computers - like a memory of Photoshop when it was really simple
  • the difficulty of the "mathematical gap" between how we experience the world and how we represent it in computers - how about a programming language without math?
  • coming from an art perspective: what is the user experience we need to make truly amazing things on a computer?
  • the law requires annual reports, which in turn creates the graphic design industry - what if the required movies?

Posted by egoodman at July 25, 2008 7:03 AM

Comments?

I have to agree that there needs to be a programming language without math. We need a language to quickly express simple ideas to test them out.

Posted by: Eric Normand at July 27, 2008 6:09 PM

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