Thought Swamp

Category: Inspiration

  • Shape Grading

    Grades are just the worst, wouldn’t you agree? In the realm of design education, it seems to me that grades are generally a poor instrument for providing feedback to the student, or testifying as a record of the learning experience for the transcript. Perhaps the whole enterprise is suspect, although this piece will not address…

  • Explore Sacred Geometry “Qualia” with an app by Scott Onstott

    The world around us is replete with architectural order in the form of geometric expression. The geometry of collective conscience is made evident in natural forms from the fractal growth of flower petals to the ratios of “the divine proportion” in our bodies. The mind of creativity unfolds through geometry’s universal language.  Good form making…

  • How Long is Your View?

    How long is your perspective? It may be more common to think about having a wide or narrow perspective, but what about the other dimension of our view…time? Designers constantly face down deadlines that force one’s focus on the immediate, right here, right now. Yet what would design look like in “the long now?” The…