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Digital Design in The Spark Studio

Digital Design!

Welcome to my digital design blog! I'm excited to be teaching a Digital Design class at Convent & Stuart Hall in San Francisco in our Unkefer Spark Studio as I'm a strong believer that connections between disciplines that have been traditionally separated in the academic world tend to lead to the most valuable educational opportunities.

As I start to explore the exciting intersection of art, science and technology I am focusing on the process as well as the product. That being said, students will be blogging their work on a weekly basis as a way to organize their thoughts and reflect back on their work while sharing the process and product with a more public audience. I plan to have them reflect on skills learned that week, successes and challenges throughout the week and their plan for a final project.

For our first unit we'll be exploring the Glowforge laser cutter. I've been wanting to explore this versatile tool for more than a year now and was excited to test it out during my first week in the Spark Studio. Here's a video of my first attempt to cut using an image of my son and daughter.




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