The story of the first woman firefighting pilot — Capturing Mary Barr’s story as the first woman firefighting pilot to work for the National Forest service in 1974 requires multiple sensory experiences for the visitor to fully understand the difficulties and travails she went through. The story is accounted from her two daughter’s Molly and Nevada Barr and is…

Altering smell and touch through a wearable — When brainstorming ideas for a wearable that would augment smell and touch, we came up with a couple of ideas. A pouch attached to a mask that would be squeezed to release smells, giving the wearer tactile feeling to the texture of the items producing the smell A mask that had a has a pouch for items that will touch your face as you smell them

A video about Milton Glaser’s perspective on drawing and a website experience — I started out the video by thinking about what kind of narrative I wanted to create. Because Milton is such an influential and larger-than-life designer, I figured that a video talking about his achievements and work wouldn’t be as impactful. …

Design a 16 page booklet for someone who knows nothing about your designer. Booklet To start off the booklet, I did a lot of research on Milton Glaser to understand his designs and philosophy. From this understanding of him as a person, I sketched out what overall narrative would be. I…

A Dive into the Life and Work of Milton Glaser — The age of modern design has been marked time and time again by the works of Milton Glaser, who has been redefining the industry for the past 60 years. …

Using new technology to mix reality and the virtual world — Imagine the world from the perspective of 10 years in the future. How much has changed? How much has technology integrated into our lives? For this project, Susan Ni and I were tasked to imagine that AR headsets have become sleeker, lighter, and commonality in daily life and to think…

Claude Monet Interactive Experience Exhibit — We were tasked to create an interactive hybrid exhibit for an artist featured at either the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, The Mattress Factory, or the Children’s Museum. Building a physical model of the space as well as designing for a space shifts my mindset…

Reflection on the semester so far in How People Work — Understanding Emotion The opening statement from Johnathan Chapman: “the aim of design is not to make everything easy for users” was both shocking and intriguing. The past grueling one and a half years at CMU Design have hammered into us that design should be efficient, elegant, and most of all easy. From…

Exploring the characteristics of Nobel through the medium of a motion video — Create a 60 second video demonstrating the characteristics of a typeface using After effects with a timeframe of 2 weeks. This motion video project highlights the characteristics of the Nobel typeface through a moving medium, which allows for unique expressions as well as constraints. …