About two years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Toward a New Funding Model for Theater”. It turned out to be one of the more popular things I’ve written. Over time I’ve heard from theaters around the world experimenting with the ideas explored in that post. Here’s part of an email I got last month: [...]
Category Archives: Design
Sunday Project: Website Refresh
December 19, 2010 – 6:12 pm
Impromptu website re-design day! Goals: Simplify! Streamline! New tool: Adobe Illustrator. Haven’t used it before today, and it seemed like making a monogram would be a fun way to learn. Here’s the result: Hey! It’s my first monogram! And my first time using Illustrator! It could have been a lot worse! Now, before I sign [...]
Your theater has a place. Why doesn’t your website?
September 30, 2010 – 2:44 pm
This morning I was reading this piece by Baltimore theater-maker and all-around-deep-thinker Tim Boucher. It reminded me of a story. A few years ago, my alma mater Carleton College rolled out an extensive redesign of their website. The design was driven not just by the aesthetic taste of talented designers, but also by extensive research. [...]
Columbia University thinks journalists should be able to program their own tools
September 27, 2010 – 2:27 pm
Well son-of-a-gun. This morning I finally got around to reading last week’s New York Times Sunday Magazine. Turns out the day I was busy building Seymour was the day this article appeared on my doorstep: And now, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is starting a dual-degree master’s program in journalism and computer science. [...]
Here’s a Thing I Made This Weekend
September 21, 2010 – 9:44 pm
All this talk of news sites and product design and user experience… it got me thinking: Wouldn’t it be fun to have a sandbox to play in? Wouldn’t it be pleasant to try out some ideas? This summer, in the depths of my obsession, I had a few conversations with Adam Bachman and Jesse Kriss. [...]