I have a small piece of software called Freemind on my laptop. It’s especially designed for making mind maps. I find it’s very useful these days as I am using it for making lecture notes, meeting notes and also pre-writing materials. Magically all of them fit in the tree-shape mind map very well. I start…
From Harry Potter and Wikipedia to Persian poetry by Rumi, literature is designed. Phenomenologically, we may read into literature as a mirror reflecting the author. Structurally, with language as the basis of cognition, literature is its own source for both the author and reader. Literature can be approached by just about any design school to…
Marty gave me a valuable lecture for writing. Thank you Marty! Before prewriting, I have been struggling to pick a topic up to write. A lot of thoughts fly around my head, but I can’t catch one of them. Because, it seems that they are impossible to connect each other because they didn’t have any…
Anyway, do you know Fibonacci sequence? We can easily find the pattern of this sequence in petals, a spiral in the galaxy, or bones in our hands everywhere. When designing organic motif or geometrical pattern, considering rhythms and/or harmony, we can use the sequence. Whenever we see a plant or twigs of tress, the pattern…
You’ve probably heard of or studied the Pygmalion Effect. Basically that peer expectation leads to either improvements or decline. The famous quote from the George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion” (the movie My Fair Lady): “You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking…
I too would like to thank Marty for the great introduction/explanation of prewriting. His examples were helpful and his presentation made perfect sense. I left class last week on Tuesday thinking that prewriting would be a breeze ☺ Even with a decent starting point (emphasize “decent” here) and Bowie playing in the background (I took…
Six year ago, I listened a lecture given by a very famous music composer, Wang Liping(王立平). He composed all the 13 pieces of music for the TV show “The dream in red mansion” during 1982-84. “The dream in red mansion” originally is a novel’s name. It is the best novel ever in China. Almost every…
Melissa is a famous brand in Brazil. Selling shoes, Melissa’s main customer group is girls. The following is one of recent advertisements. picture from: http://www.melissa.com.br/ The ad caught my eyes because I love Disney animations. Yeah, once upon a time, there is……That it is. I cannot help paying attention to these ads because they…
Warning: Incoming blog post fueled by jetlag and sushi. I find myself occasionally questioning the “philosophical” history of phenomenology and structuralism. By philosophical history, I mean determining which idea “comes first” and helps create the other in some thought experiment that hopefully simulates the complexity of our actual thought processes. As an example, lets look…
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