EDWARD TUFTE

Edward Tufte - the Leonardo of Information . . . APRIL 6th 2011



He comes to Austin just about every year and gives a full day lecture on his work and theories. There is a discounted rate if you purchase tickets in groups of 10 or more. If anyone is interested in going to this please respond in the comments section. I'd be willing to save up to bankroll the purchase if I can receive paypal payment and confirmation immediately after.

This should be a must go to for all architects or aspiring architects/designers.

Behance Cometh

Seaholm Power Plant Proposal

Hey guys. Sorry for being gone for a bit but now I am back. I saw that Worm posted about some awesome social portfolio networks and I highly encourage everyone to join up. Behance is super sweet and has a great healthy network of like-minded designers that have some truly sick work up. I set up an account, check out a project here

Also Dribble is pretty sweet though you need an invite to participate.

Also I have discussed this idea with Jeff and Worm, but I would like to see how everyone else feels about it. I propose that we move the blog to a more friendly and easier to use engine. Namely Wordpress. I know Jeff already has experience using the CMS engine and I am sure he can attest at the superior capabilities of that client. In that process I would like to redesign the look and feel of the site as well as the imagery. If anyone has any ideas for a new logo or color scheme then please post some ideas.

Anyway let's keep up the killer work.

Chop Shop Studio

Second Year Design Studio, Texas Tech University, [Prof. Jeff S Nesbit]

Studio Blog Here

Objects and their specific properties define how that object operates, performs, defines voids, defines solids, and decays. In this studio we borrow the inherent properties of specific automobile parts in order to begin a discussion of understanding formal capacities and internal ‘haecciety’ of part to whole relationships. This intensive studio goes through various phases which do not operate on a linear sequence but an iterative dialogue between one set of exercises to another. Each section is a direct response to the critical objectives through strict explorations of form, space, constructs, orders, capacities and fields. [Work shown by J. Venter, J. Charbonneau, S. Bunt, D. Budke]

Carlos Cruz-Diez

This semester I am taking a class at the Glassel School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. I took an excerpt from our class website. cruzdiezmasterclass.com


The seminar stems from the wishes, concepts and intellectual legacy of Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez.  Many of his ideas focus on the innovating and downright revolutionary idea to question the state of dependence of the color to the form. Carlos Cruz-Diez wanted to liberate the Color from its subservient condition to the Form. The color becomes then an event, a random experience subject to the specificity of the viewer’s situation. 


The seminar will be the experimental field in which the students will be asked to elaborate and construct “a Labyrinth of Deconditioning”. The idea of the Labyrinth stems from an unrealized project by Carlos Cruz-Diez in which he visualized several chambers where, upon entering, the spectator’s perceptions would be challenged by an unusual experience. He nonetheless did realized one the chamber with floating colored light which he came to call later the “Chromosaturations”. It was first constructed in Paris in 1969 under the name “Labyrinth for a Public Place”. 

The class coincides with a full exhibition of Cruz-Diez's work at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The show opens on February 5th.