Xiaofeng Lin

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[7IN7] 005 – Madlib Bloggie

Built on my personal blog.     LINK:   http://a.parsons.edu/~linx137/myblog/

Reading Response Week 3

Buxton describes sketching as an “archetypal activity associated with design”. I like his remark on the definition, yet I think all designs are also at some point “archetypal”, although I’m not a fan of making the whole concept of how we think and work be overly academic or static or certain, as the open and …

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[7IN7] 004 – Getting Started with Open Frameworks – Boxes of Major Studio

  SEE VIDEO AT BOTTOM.   RECORDED VIDEO:   OFboxes3

[7IN7] 003 – Furniture & Getting Started with Arduino

First time using Arduino…excited!

[7IN7] 002 – Binary Tree

I’m continuing one of my former experiments of binary tree structure with type and image in Processing, thinking about there’s always a contrast between digital elements and the organic-looking intents.      

[7IN7] 001 – Glitching RAW

    My constraint of the 7IN7 projects is the connection (or disconnection) between online and offline media and content, construction and deconstruction of design elements, and the relationship between human and the screen.   First project is not really expectedly satisfying, but here it is. I use different text/ sound editors to modify a …

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Social Network (RE) Design: Live Grid

GOAL:  Create an all-new type of social network that is more real and humanistic than existing popular networking such as Facebook and Twitter; Encourage people to move their body and use their hands a little bit more, instead of just sitting in front of their computers all the time; Help friends know each other’s schedule …

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Reading Response: Week Two: 3-2 2-3

I’ve always been a Tufte fan, and what fascinates me the most about his work is his explanations and suggestions/revisions for theoretical apparatus (often classic) in an extremely practical way, and his examples of pictures and descriptions are always nested in each other perfectly, or as I call it: “purposefully visual”. Good visuals have a …

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Social Network Redesign – Concept

Social Network Redesign: Project Live Grid Design Statement: The goal of this project is to create an all-new type of social network that is more real and humanistic than existing popular networking such as Facebook and Twitter. I hope people to move their body and use their hands a little bit more, instead of just …

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Reading Response: Week One class 1

To what degree or level will technology and mechanization be enough? To me it is never a truly disturbing concept that human will build something and ultimately destroy ourselves, but I’m rethinking it now. As mentioned in “The Short Run (Early 2000s)”, we do not live in a completely free marketplace, and governmental coercion could …

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