Michael Yap ? MFA Candidate in Interaction Design at the School of ...

Attended Jeff Veen?s lecture.

Information wants to be free. ?Stewart Brand

Two takeaways:

1. Information is free (computers make this so).
2. There is a space that is opposed to ?Rivalrous? (when product is consumed and it can no longer be consumed again) and ?Excludable? (when creators prevent access to those who don?t pay). Anything digital is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. Typekit?s innovation is creating that interstitial space where type is simultaneously rivalrous and excludable.

Think about what ?we? agree upon (our collective ?rough consensus?) to identify areas of concentration for thesis.

Think about the ?free? nature of information.

Think about turning products into a services (vis-a-vis Typekit).

In ?Spring 2011, Statement of Purpose?, I wrote:

When the parameters of the assignments allow, pursue the non-commercial concerns of interaction design that are highly personal and meaningful to you, for example: 1) Investigate how interaction design can amplify existing or create new pathways of transmission to others, 2) apply interaction design on the behalf of cultural institutions (museums, galleries, alternative art spaces et al.) to provide them greater agency and competitive advantage (over popular forms of entertainment), and 3) investigate a Yale tradition (backward-looking) and emerging Dutch practices (forward-looking) of graphic design to augment your application of interaction design.

It is satisfying to see all of these addressed (in some quiet or loud way) in my work this semester.

Source: http://www.mfa.exoatmospheric.com/?p=170

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