Food Font – New Website and Two Upcoming Food Font Events
Ok. I usually wait until everything is done and perfect to launch anything. Since I will be doing a Kickstarter campaign started in mid-July for part of the project – it is recommended that I start to get the word out about the project early. (This also gives me a chance to get over some of my perfection issues. ) [...]
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My new project Food Font has a new website that I will be continuing to build this summer. Food Font is a project comprised of design workshops, font making activities and the use of the interactive online design tool FoodFont. The project supports education, interaction, and communication about food, health, and design. With the Food Font project, people make alphabets out [...]
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Jane Mcgonigal – The Game That Changed My Life and Super Better
Jane Mcgonigal is known as an ambassador for the gaming industry and games for social change. As a writer, game producer, and speaker, she has helped spread the word about games being good for you. I was able to hear her speak in person at the Games For Change conference in New York that I attended last week, where she [...]
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Beautiful Possibility Elixir Social at the West Side Market
Do you feel worried about the future? Do you experience depression, insomnia, exhaustion, or anxiety? No – this is not an advertisement for a new drug, but an art project that explores “Americanitis.” “Americanitis” is a condition that was first diagnosed in 1869 as a nervous condition resulting from rapid modernization. This condition was later exploited by medicine shows that [...]
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Upcycle It! – a Great Idea/Resource book for Upcycling Projects
When I attended the Camp Pixelache event in Helsinki, Finland in May I met members from the group Kulturlabor Trial&Error which is a Berlin based collective of designers, craftivists, thinkers, doers, artists and project managers. Members of the group use media, handicrafts and arts as tools to work with local communities and other groups to exchange knowledge and skills and [...]
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