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Revisiting Saga Walk

Kids looking at sticky notes on a table

One of the lost papers that never got published was our work on a co-design technique we called "Story Walk". After tweeting about it, we were contacted by a very angry librarian who said she owned the name "Story Walk" and we either owed her…

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Forecasting Fashion

The future of fashion looks green...not like the emerald, but in environmental sustainability. The use of reclaimed materials, reduction in seasonality, the adoption of a slower cycle will all contribute to the fashion trends over the next five years. According to the article “Trend forecasters…

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The Crisis of Modernity

James Ensor Meet James Ensor Belgium's famous painter Dig him up and shake his hand Appreciate the man Before there were junk stores Before there was junk He lived with his mother and the torments of Christ - They Might Be Giants, 1994 In the…

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The Avant Garde

I have had to take art and art history classes in each stage of my educational journey: my general educational requirements and first degree major (mass communications), as general education in my new pursuit of studying fashion design, and a source material for that degree.

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The Archive

In order to maintain a blog for 19 years, one has to be flexible. My first blog used Radio UserLand followed by Blogger on my UMBC account and then Blogger on blogger.com, hosted Wordpress and then maybe Wordpress on my site that got hacked. I…

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