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Philosophy of Technology

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 

What is Philosophy? 

Philosophy comes from 2 greek word -philo and sophia 

• philo -like or love 
• sophia -wisdom 
• ”ology” -logos -which means “reason or word” 

 Philosophy has been divided into 4 parts since antiquity :

metaphysics -theory of reality -a theory of what is what exists -theory of what is real. 

• Materialism -One claim is that what is real is simply matter, some simple and some complex(materialism). -Only matter is real 
• Dualism -there is the material component but then there is another component to use that isspiritual/mental/nonmaterial. -Both matter and non-matter is real 
• Idealism -The only things that exists are non-material things exist -everything that is, is part of theappearance, not part of the reality. 
• if these are the only options available, then one of them must be the right answer, but it seems thatscience cannot prove which one is true, you have to use philosophy to prove which one is true. 
• Philosophers look at arguments to prove something is true -justify the claim in question -look at argumentsand make arguments 
• argument is something to do to get to the truth. 

Epistemology -Study of knowledge -if I know something how do I know it? 

• Empiricism -must use senses to figure out what you know 
• Rationalism -just use your mind to figure out what you know 
• Value Theory -Values -moral, political, aesthetic -value of beauty and ugliness 
• Logic -applied to the rest of disciplines -allows you to think clearly 
• Philosophy of Technology involves looking at things in each section -Doesnʼt fit into just one of the 4 parts. 
• Look at claims and then figure out which claim is the best -see if other claims couldnʼt be just as fine. 

The Machine and the Robot 

• Endorsement and suspicion -2 important ideas 
• Asmov endorses Artificial Intelligence 
• also thinks that itʼs inevitable -we have made it so that we will always be driven by technology 
• Our nature seems to technological 
• Robots are just the latest development 
• He doesnʼt give us an argument 
• He is raising the issues but is not actually giving arguements 
• He thinks that we should support technology even if it leads to our end 
• If we arenʼt fit enough to compete with our own creation, then too bad. 

Argument -Sound argument { 

• Socrates is a man. 
• All men are mortal. 
• Socrates is mortal. 

 } all statements are true and are linked

Kline Article 

• Technology is vague 
• According to him, can mean 4 things: 
• Hardware / Artifacts -non natural objects -manufactured by humans 
• Sociotechinical System of Manufacture -people, machinery, resources and processes 
• Knowledge, technique, know-how -Process, knowledge, the act, technique and technology have somethingto do with each other in terms of the history of words -a certain technique is needed to make the technology(material / artifact) 
• Sociotechinical System of Use -combo of hardware and humans 

1. Philosophers that hold the endorsement stance usually are endorsing the hardware idea -the hardware itselfdoesnʼt have harmful affects.
2. Philosophers that hold the suspicion stance -look at the other ways -technique and manufacturing and use -lookat technology as a whole system. 

Monday, August 31, 2009


Idheʼs Technology:

3 Parts to Technology: 

• Must have a material component 
• Must enter into some set of practices in which humans make use of these components 
• relationship between the humans that design, use, make.
• Proto-technology -what he calls technology when animals use it 
• He is claiming that to be human is to use technology 
• If a human was to not use technology, they would not be classified as human even though they would begenetically human. 
• Technology modifies or amplifies our modification of local environments 
• Technology has either a positive or negative impact on the environment 
• Technology is not neutral / has no neutral impact 
• Modern Science didnʼt happen until 16th Century 
• Philosophy in the west -began in Greece 2,500 years ago 
• Is technology applied science? 

Technological Revolutions 

• Time 
• Space 
• Language 

Time Technologies 

• Not all cultures have the same sense of time -Current way of telling time didnʼt come about till the 11th century with the invention of the clock (machine) 
• Time is a “recent” invention 

Space Technologies 

Maps -representations of space: Both maps and clock provide standards for us 

Language Technologies 

Writing -These technologies lead to a transformation of seeing (perceiving) 

Wednesday, September 9, 2009


No such field of Philosophy .T. till about 3 decades ago 

 Technological Culture and its problems 

• Living in a Technological Culture -Excerpt from 
• Is there something unique about something living in a technological culture? -Our culture is dominated bytechnology -does not allow us to look at the human quality of technology -de-personalized technology 
• Is Technology itself an autonomous self-driving system? Optimism -will say no -Pessimists will say yes 
• Technology as a system -beyond our control and has mechanism to generate itʼs own things -swept up in the system 
• Technology simply as a tool that we use -is a tool that can be used by good or bad people 
• History of the Philosophy of Technology (pg 3) -the power of reflection 
• Sometimes it is hard to hold courses in P.T. -because there is a long standing view that technology is simplyan applied science 
• Philosophy of Science -got a lot of attention between 15th and 16th century (Scientific Revolution) 
• After Scientific Revolution we had the industrial Revolution -I.R. did not create Philosophers of Technology = 
• Misconception -if you understand science enough then you understand technology enough 
• Idhe -before the revolution, there was technology that existed -therefore T. does not piggy back on science, itis seperate 
• Conflicting Visions of Technology 
• Technology causes more problems than it solves -Technology can be a double edged sword 

2 views about the value of technology 

• We should be optimistic 
• We should be pessimistic 

• Not one piece of technology, but technology as a whole 

• Optimist -defined as value neutral -passive tools that can be used for good or bad 

• Technology is not inherently good or bad, but rather depends on human use (and abuse) to make it so. 

• Intrinsic 

• To think of technology the way that the optimist do it to have an instrumentalist view of technology. -the ideathe technology is simply a tool -technologies are tools 

• A hammer or saw are not good/bad -they are just tools that are used to build something -the thing built willcarry to good/bad label 

• Technology is simply a collection of tools 

• The visions of optimism goes back to the time of the scientific revolution -Frances Bacon 

• He was a promoter of science and technology during the revolution 

• In his view of optimism, we are in control of the technologies we produce 

• There are certain mechanisms of control that are integrated into our lives and we have no control of theaddition or removal of them from our lives (TV with Monitor, A/C Controller) 

Monday, September 14, 2009 

• Hickman -Professor at SIUC 

• Pragmatism -Important in this philosophy movement 

• hasnʼt gotten enough attention as it deserves 

Tuning up Technology by Hickman 

• Divided into 2 parts 

• 1st Part -Parsing Technology 

• John Dewey -Hickman references 

• 1st thing he talks about is how strange the word technology is 

• The word technology has 2 greek roots -Techne --Logos (ology) 
• Logos -Study of 
• Techne -techniques or productive skills together with the tools and artifacts that are required for their expression. 

• Why technology as the study of techne never got off the ground with the ancient greeks 

• Theory -philosophy/science 
• Practice -politics 
• Arts and Crafts 
• All of the emphasis was given to the Theory and Practice, so Arts and Crafts was not focused on 
• Person who pursues Arts and Crafts -very dirty lifestyle -low end socially 
• Hickman suggests maybe itʼs time for us to pursue Techne now 
• Pg 12 -New definition of Technology -Technology in its most robust sense, then, involves the

invention, development, and cognitive development of tools and other artifacts, brought tobear on raw materials and intermediate stock parts with a view the the resolution of perceivedproblems. 

• Inspired by John Dewey 
• Cognitive -Thinking -Not instinctual -self aware -not habitual 
• Perceived Problems -Technology exists to solve the problems that come up in our life 
• Pg 12 -Where doubt does not occur, technology … does not intervene within technical practice 
• We must stop thinking of Technology as only an artifact, but now an inquiry (when reading Hickman) 

• Technology is an inquiry of Techne 

• This didnʼt come into existence until the Scientific Revolution 

• Hickman is an optimist -optimist FOR technology 

• 2nd Part -Naturalizing Technology 

1. Locating technology within the evolutionary history of human development 
2. Technology is something we cannot do without 

• All Human activity can be placed within 4 categories 

1. Technological Activities -Activity that uses BOTH artifacts and cognitive processes -Artifact does nothave to be physical ; can be just conceptual -Ideas can be tools 
2. Technical Activities -Donʼt use cognitive process -habitual -Donʼt involve active thinking -Also use artifacts 
3. Non-Instrumental Cognitive Activities -In cases of this sort a need is identified and then satisfied bythe use of something non-artifactual that is immediately at hand -perhaps even by the hand itself Thinking involved but no tools involved 
4. Non-Instrumental and Non-Cognitive Activities -May include perceptions and unconscious habitual responses -no tools involved -no active thinking involved 
1. Trying to analysis and break down into components 
2. In the world in which most of us live there is continual reciprocal movement between the technical and thetechnological. In other words, the technical and the technological are phases of our experience.Technology is what we use to tune up the way we experience the world, and the way we experience theworld is increasingly technical.

Monday, September 21, 2009 

• Group Led Discussion #1 

• Language is the key to the evolution of technology 
• 1st question brings up the topic of humanity = to use technology 

• 2nd question our definition of technology 

• Hickman -uses language to define technology 
• Hickman defines it more and it becomes a more useful definition 
• Is it society that drive technology or is it technology that drives our society 
• Technology moving us forward 
• Are thoughts technology? Mathematical equationsMonday, September 28, 2009 

Autofac 

• Pessimistic view 

• Burkeʼs Video -The Trigger Effect 

• Pessimistic view -we are inept because of the technology that is around us -Elevator is an example given inthe movie. 
• Thinks that we set up a trap for ourselves everyday in dealing with technology 
• If anything surrounding the city (which is a system) fails, the city itself becomes a trap 
• If technology fails us, we still have to go back to the beginning to the most simplest form of technology and thecycle begins again 

• Conflicting Visions of Technology by Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek 

• Ellul -dominant pessimist -French philosopher 

• Technique -enslaves everything -art, family life, economics, science, and leisure 

• consists in the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency in every field ofhuman activity 

• Ellul is not really concerned with technology as artifact or hardware 
• He is more concerned with the technique that happens in the societies that have a lot of this hardware 
• There is something very unique about 20th/21st century -technique invades every part of life 
• These are the things that are imposed upon us and there is no way out from under neath it 
• Technology in a system cannot be gotten out of a system 
• You canʼt escape technology because itʼs closed nature -itʼs a close circuit 
• Pessimists -technology is totally out of our control 
• Optimist -technology is completely in our control 
• Autonomy -freedom; individuality 
• It really comes down to this idea of freedom 
• Should we talk about the whole of technology or just a specific piece of technologyWednesday, September 30, 2009 
• Exam -Essay or Essay Questions -Short Answer Questions -Connect the view to the definition/connectPerson with view 
• Hiedegger -one of the most important philosophers 

Myths -Hickman 

• Why does he open up the reading by talking about myths? 
• a myth is just a story -doesnʼt have to be false 
• We should tell ourselves a story about how to use technology 
• Myth are not dead just because we live in a tech-scientific world. 
• Technology has to do with inquiring into problems and way of figuring out problems 
• there is a relationship between problems and the solution to the problem 
• this is how Hickman believes life itself functions 
• We should be responsible problem solvers 
• The best myth we can tell ourselves are ones about responsibility.

Hope -Ellul Advocates 

• Ellul has a religious take on how to solve technologies ills 
• Technology = Loss of control 
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• Dominance of technique 

• rational methods and efficiency 

• Talks about hope as a way to overcome the problems of technology 
• Hope is the “solution” as it stands outside of the technological system 
• Hope -form of questioning? -The Story of Jobe is used as an example of hope -god? -irrational method? 
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Salvation -Heidegger 

• talks about the prospects of human kind in a world that dominates 

• 2 scenarios 

• Technology destroys itself and perhaps human kind • opening to Being is discovered and taken 

• Hickman doesnʼt understand Heidegger 
• “Only a god will save us” doesnʼt really mean a god -but weʼll find out more later 
• 
  

• Why does Heidegger write in such a strange way? 

• He is german, but this is not the reason 
• He thinks that language itself is a problem -Language creates philosophical disturbances andmisunderstandings 
• What is the meaning of Being? -Major question he asks 
• We need to delve deeper into this -Questions the particular meaning of dasein -mean “there being” 
• We should basically think about the human being being dasein -this is his word for human being.

• “I Think therefore I am” -Descartes 

• exist -being 
• unsatisfactory answer 
• he is saying his mind exists and his body is something he has to address later 
• To say that the mind and the body are broken into 2 separate things is to say that reality is broken into 2separate things. 
• Descartes is giving an answer about the nature of reality but it is unsatisfactory 
• How do I live in the world -link this question to the meaning of being 
• Technology is part of our very existence 
• Beings that are informed by a technological world 
• Our conceptions of what is real and what is not real • • • • • • 

• Responsibility 

• There is something about Hickmanʼs depiction of Ellul and Heidegger is fishy 
• Relationship between life and technique 
• When things break down -only one or 2 things break down 
• When they break down, we will solve the problem 
• There isnʼt loss of control -only parts of systems break down and parts of systems are controlled by various people 
• This is one reason to be optimistic about technology • 

Wednesday, October 14, 2009


Comte 

• Positivism/ the positive philosophy = science 
• Theological - religious rituals 
• Metaphysical 
• Positive - Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Sociology come from 
• Work to be done in the founding of the science of sociology 
• Religious rituals donʼt work for us sometimes so we need science - science of the human being 
• Unity Science, understand the method of science 
• a general scientific outlook needs to be honed - can use that knowledge in technology 
• what is the lingering theological influence 
• Optimism 
• Utopianism 
• Progress which is inevitable 
• It is a human impulse that we will have control of the world around us 
• science is the maturity of the human race 
• rationally and scientifically driven 

• Introspection 

Monday, October 19, 2009

• Thesis? 

• There is no predominant view about technology 
• what is primary:  humanity or technology? 
• Our notions of technology are historically derived 
• The relevance of history to our understanding of technology 
• These three relationships with technology are historically situated.  
• Is our own notion of technology historically situated? 

• Ancient Skepticism 

• Classic Greek Philosophers - Thinkers that began philosophy 
• 2500 years old 
• Socrates, Plato, Aristotle … 
• Technology as the study of technique is a dangerous thing to do 
• Why should we be wary of using technology - because the protagonist in the mythsend up in a bad way 
• You put your trust into the techniques not in god 
•  When you put your trust in technique you alienate yourself from god 
• Technology will also lead to a social break down because you will no longer strivefor excellence - it will be too easy for you 
• Technology was a way through arts and crafts to look at what was wrong with nature - if you have to make too much you could end up saying that nature is tooinsufficient 
• To make too many objects is an insult to nature / god messed up 

• Aristotle - Things that have an end or a goal or a purpose that are eternal to them are important and only natural things have this -Telos 

• Our goal is to use reason to find the good life 
• Human and man-made objects donʼt function the same way - we create the 

purpose when we make the object 

• Ancient Critique of Technology on page 494 

• Enlightenment Optimism

• 18th century 
• Main Points on Page 498 
• we are created in godʼs image and he is a creator, therefore; we are a creator to create is to create artifacts and technology 
• even if you didnʼt believe the bible you could use it to validate something • 
• 
  

• Romantic Uneasiness 

• Love hate relationship 
• There are some questions that should not be answered 

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 

Heidegger part II 

Why does he write in such a strange way? - He is concerned with various associationswe will make - wants us to seperate ourselves from words we are used to - create a new vocabulary that you understand after you read it over and over - a new way of using words 

Basic Issues 

• Being and Time - wants to raise a certain question, What is the meaning of being?

• This is the theme that runs through out all of his work 
• Being - existence, that which is, that which is real 
• Being shows itself in a variety of forms 

Ways/ Modes of being -ways in which things appear to us and by which we interpret them

• Things show up as technically ready to hand -tools 

• Ready and on hand for our use 

• They also show themselves as Scientifically present-at-hand -scientific objects- thing with properties

• Appear to us in different ways than tools - abstract existence 

• Believes that these two ways of being have become the dominant way in which things are though of 

• These two ways of being have become dominant and pushed out other ways of being - that is other ways that things appear to us as real 

• Our uniqueness comes from our capacity to understand what is real 

• Creates the notion of the importance of reality - We treat these two modes of being such importance that they become the more real meaning of being 

• Using a hammer - hammering a nail - go on to the next nail and so on - not considering the hammer as anything other than an extension of your arm imagine that the hammer breaks - your relationship to the hammer changesand you are no longer using the hammer you are investigating the hammer there is a problem that needs to be solved - therefore you are looking at it as a scientific object - it is a scientific object because it is a thing with a property - it appears to you in a different way There are other ways of being that are not scientific or tool orientated - the other ways have been marginalized by the other two dominant ways 

• What we think of as the most important values - Use and Objectivity 
• Definition of Technology - a means to an end.

• Have to understand the essence of technology - Essence - the ground the enables

The ground the enables technology 

• Modern technology is unique in that it is a certain kind of challenging 
• Technology is a mode of revealing that challenges 
• Technology that has come before us is technology that is more en sync with nature 
• There is a big difference between modern and pre-modern technology 

Modern Technology allows us to treat the world a standing reserve 

• Standing Reserve -Another way about talking about thinking of something as a stock pile - something on call as a use -Bestand 
• Always there; always on call; always there for use 
• Everything that modern technology touches becomes a stockpile 
• Also something being handy for further use 
• Becomes available for manipulation 

Cell phones are able to signal the position of user - GPS or system - Highways arenow using tolls - rental cars have GPS to nab speeders - Dog/Children have chipsimplanted under skin

• Location Technology - His concern is not that this will happen - that the tide of technology will begyle us - they will become the only way of thinking 
• Dominate way in which we conceive both the world and ourselves 
• Other ways of thinking about things are not able to reveal themselves to us 
• Heʼs not saying this is bad - he is saying be aware of it 
• The world - natural resource 
• He thinks we donʼt see the bigger ontological (the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.) thing that is going on - that is why he is writing this 
• Treat things as disposable equipment 

• Gestell - Enframing 

• To determine beings (things) in their being (in their existence) as nothing but resources 

• This is the danger in our present epic 

• Enframing is a certain mode - in which beings only show up as bestand - standing resources 

• Gas Station - there is no resource for them other than being a gas station 

• The essence of modern technology 

Monday, November 2, 2009

• Standing reserves - disposable equipment

• Stuff that is there on hand - stuff that is handy 
• Available for manipulation 

• Enframing - determining all beings as nothing by standing reserves

• to be at all is to be nothing but bestand - to be nothing more than a resource 

• A mode of disclosure which determines the character of interpretation such that to be is to be nothing but a resource 

• This is the danger of modern technology - thinking that we are nothing more than a resource 

• We can built a free relationship to technology once we figure understand technology 
• There is a problem with the essence of technology not technology itself 
• Do we look at the world from the point of view of enframing? 
• Slave is a living tool - Aristotle 

• What is the danger of gestell? 

• We lose track of what it means to be human - we will treat everything as a resource, even ourselves 
• A danger of leveling or reducing -reductionism 
• Reductionism - the view that we can get at whatʼs going on with reality by knocking things down from where they might appear to a level where they are just X - X being atoms … etc. - Reductionism of being - leveled to being seen as just a resource 
• Wants us to appreciate the multifarious ways things can be 
• He has no problem with bestand but when it becomes only bestand this is what hehas a problem with 
• Efficiency - the basis of bestand 
• Human beings ek-sists - we will lose grips with this? - not sure what this is about? 
• We need to first realize the problem and then live differently 
• Das man - means the one/they 

• 2 Ways Enframing is Dangerous

• We will think of ourselves as nothing more than resources - when we think about ourselves existing, we will think we will only exist as a resource - being efficient 
• We will think of everything else as a resource 

• poiēsis - bringing forth 

• Poiēsis is a type of revealing - There are 2 different kinds of bringing forth 

• aided bringing forth 

• • Techne - fine art and crafts unaided bringing forth

• physis 

• there is another way of revealing that does not fit into this - Modern Technology

• modern technology does not bring forth - itʼs sway is different - ascending upon 

- challenges nature to be an efficient resource - itʼs challenging NOT bringing forth 

• Consider technology as something we are living through and consider this as our condition 
• Take it in and then act on it 
• Technology as our destiny not our fate - destiny - determined to do 
• Dissatisfaction - living through your satisfaction and use it to our advantage - be ableto live through and then see other ways things fit into this other mode 

• Tea Cup example

• Styrofoam cup - meant to be used up and thrown away 

• Porcelain cup - sentimental value

• The way in which the Japanese understand how the styrofoam cup can stand next to the porcelain cup 
• Both have modern technology but understand technology model different 

My Technology Mindmap

Landmark, demonstration video but without sound.

Meet Gnasher and Sank. Gnasher is a gallery curator in the crossroads and a

graduate of the blah blah. Sank is a teenage menace, having been arrested twice 

this year on defacement of property charges. What unifies these two

individuals? A love for putting paint on a wall - graffiti. More specifically, they are

looking for a way to express themselves, they are looking for a voice. Both these

individuals have certain needs and wants. They are two pieces of many pieces that

form a larger picture - the graffiti community.

Introducing Landmark, a new way of looking at the graffiti community. It has

all the tools to help the common tagger or the uptight artist. Whichever you might

be.

optional part

Before we delve too far into the specifics, it is essential to understand why the

graffiti community is important. The roots carry back to ancient Roman and Greek

days. In Pompeii, preserved by volcanic rock, archeologists uncovered walls covered

in graffiti, some of which is quite the same as today.

"Aufidius was here"

"Albanus is a bugger."

"I am amazed, O wall, that you have not collapsed and fallen, since you must

bear the stupidities of so many scrawlers."

optional part

Modern graffiti is much broader in its scope, encompassing everything from

stupid sayings to political protests. This broad range has spawned a whole culture

with its own society and language. For example, a "tag" is like a signature. A "tagger,"

then, is someone who leaves their signature on walls around town. A writer is any

person who does some form of graffiti, from tagging to murals. They even have their

own class system. A king is an experienced graffiti artist, respected by his peers. A

toy, on the other hand is a tool in the eyes of writers alike.

It is this spectrum that LANDMARK covers, helping bridge the gaps and make

toys into kings. However, there is a number of needs people like Sank have. The first

and foremost is the need to stay anonymous from authority. When creating an

account, Sank will have a full range of privacy settings.

What about when Sank is in the streets? The Alert System will warn him! All

he has to do is choose it and turn the GPS tracking on. The iPhone will track his

location, feeding him up-to-date info from cop radios and his friends. He can also

warn others of approaching bacon wagons. He simply has to choose the location,

radius and warning level, and he might have saved someone from jail. He will also

be able to change his own warning settings, also depending on the radius and alert

levels he chooses.

But say that there is a whole other class of graffiti users out there, that is, the

Kings. Their needs are holistically than those of the lower ranking taggers. One of

these needs is to be up to date on everything going on their community, and around

the world. artists like Gnasher can enter LANDMARK and all the newest, coolest and

most interesting updates will show up on his feed. fle can also sort through the,

things he has before him He can choose equipment, then sort by object. The first

thing that comes up is spray paint cans. Gnasher click on the item he deems

particularly interesting and it will expand citing reviews and details such as price,

location and brand. It's also possible for Gnasher to add his own review ifhe wants

to. Then, he can pull up the map and check out all the locations that sell those

products.

Another awesome option LANDMARK users will be able to use is the

Photosynth option. To use it, Gnasher can pull it up on his iPad at home. After the

application opens he can pick any location where somebody has posted their work.

After picking the location, the user will be thrown to the first year of the location.

With the Photosynth, Gnasher will be able to scrub through any subsequent years,

including his own! He will be able to view the specifics, which are generated when

the users upload their work, including method, equipment, and a little about the

creators themselves. Gnasher can also view the comments that people have written

about his work, and possibly leave his own comments.

But Gnasher isn't interested in his work right now, but rather what's

happening with his friends. He can go to his friends page and check out what they're

up to. He can view their work, post comments on their wall, and even check out

recent places they've been, provided they're part of his "trusted" network. He can

also chat with any of them at any time while he's on the we SIte. 

Ultimately, LANDMARK is about community. LANDMARK supports anyone

with an idea and a spray can. Because it is not about creating a famous artist,

instead, it is about helping people make something with meaning, because after all,

isn't that what we're all after?

Six Facts on The History of Photography

My design studio desk

last days in design land.

My Sleep Schedule for the last 3 Weeks

Gray boxes = sleep time for the month of march 03-11

User Experience | Project 2 | The Persuasive Experience | Intial Concepts

My initial renderings for Vitamin C.

Concept development in my sketchbook.

User Experience | Project 3 | Poetic

Pro Practice | Resume, Bio &

I' ve always felt that it was a matter of time before my obsession with learning came together with my passion for design. My preoccupation with psychology and how the human brain works stems from my fascination with data; the same data I get to communicate visually, making less interesting information enjoyable and offering insight and new understanding at a glance. I enjoy devising systems that solve problems, thinking about everything that could make or break those systems. I want to know as much as possible not just because it's entertaining but because knowing more lets me make better decisions in my work & in life. 

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2010 American Advertising Federation Editorial Design, AFF-Silver ADDY® for Scope Magazine Cover.

2010 American Advertising Federation Elements of Advertising, Gold AFF-ADDY®® for the Complete Books on Cycling.

2010 American Advertising Federation Elements of Advertising, Gold AFF-ADDY® for Scope Magazine Cover Illustration.

2009 American Advertising Federation 9th district AFF-Silver ADDY® award for Line Exploration accordion book.

2009 American Advertising Federation Gold AFF-ADDY® award for Line Explorations Accordion book.

2009 American Advertising Federation Gold AFF-ADDY® award Munsel accordion book.

2009 American Advertising Federation AFF-Silver ADDY® award (Topeka) Topeka Symphony Orchestra.

2009 American Advertising Federation Topeka Scholarship.

Information Architecture | Paper Scissors & Rocks

Amethyst

Varicite

Malacite

Pyrite

Gypsum

Hematite

Cinnabar

Bornite

Argonite

Azurite

I've been thinking about who I am for a while now,

I felt it was only a matter of time before my obsession toward learning began to swirl together with design . . . Learning how objects and how people work, began to influence how I work, and why I do what I do. My fascination with phycology, how the human brain works, as well as evolution and how we are who we are stems from my fascination with Data, its the same data I get to communicate with visually, making less interesting information more enjoyable. Offering the viewer insight and new understanding at a glance. I make long lists of goals and things I want to learn and achieve, and look at them daily. I want to know as much a possible, not just because it's entertaining, knowing more lets me make better decisions in life and in my work. I enjoy devising systems that solve problems, thinking about everything that could make or break those systems, and then visually communicating it.

Graffiti Community Posters | National GOLD Addy Award Winner.

Community Poster Combined

Spatial Experience | Project 3 | Final

Each wayfinding device has a line that stretches from the left to the right, representative of a continuous band of ten colors each distinguishing a specific Kansas City Art Institute building to help the viewer on their journey. The thickness of the continuous line is dependent on the viewer's proximity to the buildings entry points. The continuous line found in wayfinding devices between buildings are merged together to form a two color gradient, continuing to unify the campus.

Room Identification/ Building Directory

Building Identification, Directional/Campus Directory

SE Prj 3 Presentation Final 2

Senior Degree Project | Process Book & Identity System

Example video of my AR learning interface idea:


My process book for my senior project which has to do with AR learning. I also supplied the organization/company/community's branding identity system.