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Greenback 2.0

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

A Simple, Radical Solution to the Financial Crisis

Could we fix systemic flaws simply by printing a new denomination with a picture of a mag-lev train riding through a wind farm on the back of the bill?
The Preamble
I’m not an economist or an expert on currency markets. But I am a designer. When designers are presented [...]

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Tags: Design Project · Politics

Updates to Academic Site

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments

No recent posts as we focus on Professorial site

It has been awhile since posting to mercurious. However, we’ve been hard at work updating our academic site. This site now documents recent student work:

Freshmen Processing work
Muzzi, the digital pet —music player hybrid
Info Wraps, a mobile informatics research project

It also now features a commercial work samples page [...]

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Work-in-Progress: WordPress Touch Theme

September 5th, 2007 · No Comments

WordPress Touch Theme Work-In-Progress

Mobile Touch Screen WordPress Theme In The Works

In response to the proliferating importance of portable touch-screen interfaces, we have started the design and development of a WordPress theme for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The theme will make your WordPress site look and behave like a native application, taking advantage of the special requirements of a touch-screen, flick-and-slide scroll interface minimizing zoom-pinching, all using Joe Hewitt’s iUI JavaScript and CSS library.

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Project: Olympic Mobile Visitors Guide

June 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Olympic Mobile Users Guide - Screenshot AnimationA Parsons Design Professor directs a class of students at Tsinghua Art Academy to design and prototype a visitors guide for the Summer Olympics 2008 in Beijing using Flash Lite and Nokia devices.

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