Tag: design education
Teaching design, curriculum philosophy, classroom strategies, and what 25 years in the studio classroom actually looks like.
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Your First Version Isn’t a Failure — It’s a Filter
Your first version isn’t a failure — it’s a filter. The gap between version one and version two…
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CRAP, But Make It Color
Part 2 of the color theory series: how Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity apply to color the same…
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Color Is Three Things at Once
About this post: This is the first of three pieces on color. For twenty-five years I’ve watched design…
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How to Build (and Fix) Any Palette
Part 3 of the color theory series: a practical system for building and fixing any color palette, grounded…
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Playing With Purpose: The System Behind the Feeling
Playing With Purpose Exercise 9: Take an emotional response you can’t explain and reverse-engineer the structure behind it.…
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The 450th Exercise Changed Everything
The first 400 exercises showed a clear pattern. Then Exercise 450 broke it — and the spike in…
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Creativity Isn’t a Skill. It’s 129 Specific Permissions.
Creative blocks aren’t vague — they’re specific. After processing 650 exercises, the research identified exactly 129 permissions that…
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I Used an AI as a Lab Rat to Test 650 Creativity Exercises
650 creativity exercises needed testing at scale. The solution: feed them to an AI one at a time…
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Playing With Purpose: The Zone You Can Build
Playing With Purpose Exercise 8: Build a focused state deliberately through breath and release. Twenty minutes of setting…
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Creative Freedom Isn’t the Absence of Structure
Creative freedom isn’t the absence of structure — it’s the result of it. What organizing 650 exercises into…