On Wednesday afternoon (along with staff and research students from Science, Engineering, and Architecture and Design) Elizabeth and I visited the Digital Media Design Lab to hear a selection of presenters showcasing their use of e-research technologies and demonstrating a number of cool projects they’d been involved with. (more…)

I’ve just finished reading this excellent book on John Maeda’s ten ‘Laws of Simplicity’. Maeda is an excellent teacher, and his ideas are easy to grasp as he makes them very memorable through the use of lively anecdote, acronym, and subtle repetition.

Today I visited my very first Digital Media Design class: the wonderfully talented people from DMDN285, Game Theory.

Doug Easterly, the course coordinator, invited me to say a few words to the students who are just beginning group projects in which they will work together to create their own original flash videogame title. (more…)